Sneezing week-old chick

[Eggcessive]

Hmmm...interesting that they have adult chickens in the store. I suppose they could have been exposed to something from the grown chickens or from someone spreading something on their hands or cleaning equipment. But as long as they are acting normal, eating, drinking, and poops are normal, I would just watch them. Some brands of chick crumbles are less dusty if that is the problem.

 

[TheDens]

They have a "rooster relocation program." If you get a rooster by accident, or just have a chicken you can't keep and don't want to kill, they take it in (if they have the room) and adopt it out. There are two roosters and a pair of bantams there at the moment.

Mine are eating Manna Pro medicated crumbles at the moment. Is there a better one you could recommend?

 

[Eggcessive]

They have a "rooster relocation program." If you get a rooster by accident, or just have a chicken you can't keep and don't want to kill, they take it in (if they have the room) and adopt it out. There are two roosters and a pair of bantams there at the moment.

Mine are eating Manna Pro medicated crumbles at the moment. Is there a better one you could recommend?

Wow--that sounds like you could very well pick up a disease easily from someone's chicken going back to the feed store. A lot of poeple had Mareks disease and respiratory diseases like MG, MS, coryza, IB, and all kinds of things on their property. If they bring in a chicken from a farm that has something contagious, the accidental roosters can become carriers.