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The others are healthy. It seems to have groomed its rear end feathers off.
Was there something else about the feathers you noticed? They are genetic hackle chicks.
They have two waters, one small standard chick waterer in the "coop" part of the brooder for overnight and a gallon size in the run they spend most of their day in.
I wash them every other day with soap because I'm kind of OCD and the Corid can leave behind an orange residue. In between the waters are rinsed and filled at noon before it gets hot so they can have a cool drink, and I redo the "coop" one before dark so they have fresh water overnight, the run water I dump out at night and fill only partly in the morning because I know I'll be back to it at noon. They've never been out of water and they are lifted on blocks so they don't get too messy, but sometimes poop happens.
Here's some pics of its siblings I took one week ago.
That reminds me, most of these were taken at 5 weeks old (the last two at 4) so the chicks are actually 6 weeks now. Oops!
Do you think something is off with their feathers? I've been feeding Flock Party brand Chick Starter with 22% protein, but I've never raised a "feather" breed before so I was really hoping that was sufficient.
Oh, and the feed hasn't gotten moldy or wet. It comes in 10lb plastic zipper bags and I keep them on my covered back porch. However, there was a post about a feed recall on here but when I called my TSC they said they couldn't see anything on the computer about it.
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