urgent- chicks are just not well

[MaryKreindel]

Thans,
I do deep litter their yard and coop, straw and in the fall added leaves. But sickness started before leaves. I will cut off all other foods and rake things out again and add more hay. There was a period of straight ran where I could not keep enough dry hay down(?)
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[MaryKreindel]

Hi and thanks,

I switched to a mix of layer and protien pellets, washed everything, restricted the diet with neighbors for dark greens or meat/meal worms/tuna. Put down the DE and have been watching them. They weigh less, most of them have vibrant red crops but two of them. They seem normal mostly except the one White Rock who is the head hen and she is very pushy (known to eat egg occassionally).

It's the white girl who has the red neck/breast/head - I'll have to ask my husband how to upload pictures - they are of the vents heads, flock, and general conditions.

I feel so stupid because I read all sorts of things on raising chickenns before people started keeping their chickens longer and all I ever read about was two molts:-/. duh