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LingaB said:
Thanks! I'll pick some up after my anniversary dinner with the hubs. I've brought her inside and put her in the trough we used as a brooder.

After I give her the vitamins.. Should I give them daily? Multiple times a day and when should I start seeing improvement if she were to improve?
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Happy Anniversary! And here is a quote from another BYC person:


Isolate them in a warm dark place (so I can observe droppings, make sure disease doesn't spread, and control food and water).

Give them three drops of PolyViSol liquid baby vitamins (no iron) on the beak for four or five days, then taper off. It can't hurt, and some problems are the result of vitamin deficiencies.

Keep them well hydrated, and if necessary, give them 50/50 Pedialyte and water; feed soft foods like scrambled egg and cooked oatmeal or layer pellets soaked in warm water. No scratch or treats while sick.
 
Here is one of the chicks I hatched 2 1/2 weeks ago. Who guesses a roo!!!!!!!?? I do!


Kind of a bummer as this was the only chick hatched from a dark olive green egg. It had been crossed back with a BCM and the resulting egg color from a hen would have been a khaki color. Now I have to rehome it!
 
Ok all I have a question I have three hens that have hatched eggs one hatched 7 one has hatched three so far today and another has hatched one so far will it be ok to put these hens and there baby's in a 15x15 pen together or is this a bad idea already have one hen with 7 babies in the pen already
 
CHICKEN MATH IS CRAZY!

We rent this huge house and it has 2 acres. We asked the landlord before renting it if we could have a small coop of chickens and he said yes, just not in the back in a certain area. No problem, the front is HUGE.

So we got a coop and 6 chicks and we do great with them! We put them out in the coop at 8 weeks. But then the Chicken Math starts. Chickens are so easy and we really have wanted ducks. I am sure the landlord wouldn't mind a few.... or so everyone supported my madness. LOL He did say pest control is up to us and ducks eat bugs too right? (I hate GA bugs!)

So we get 4 ducklings. Some where in there I decide we just have to hatch eggs with the Easter Hatch-Along. The kids were thrilled. So 3 bantams hatch. So that brought us up to 13 feathered things right? Well it didn't feel like a lot as the ducks where still in the brooder and the chicks in the mini brooder.

Only then a predator gets 3 of our chickens outside. (no idea what) Our 3 favorites. My son was very upset about the loss of the only easter egger.

You see where this is going right?

So the ducks are big enough to go outside! This leaves the big brooder open! And with a loss in our hearts we end up with 4 more chicks. 2 Barred Rock and 2 New Hampshires. Only the son was still very sad about the Easter Egger. So we end up getting 2 more chicks, an olive egger and a real americana. He was so thrilled.

Then the teenage daughter got all upset as one of the chickens was hers and she didn't get to pick special chickens! We ended up with a EE rooster and 2 light brahms about 3 months old.

But then.... Super hot day and the chicks dumped their water and we were out and didn't see and so we lost the Americana. Heart broken boy, again. At this point I wasn't even counting how many chickens we had.

So then we find 2 dutch chickens months old on craigs list.... son loves them and so now, some how.... we are up to 20 feathered pets.

Think the land lord will notice? (He has yet to come by in 4 months... Maybe he never will?) We have coops that we move around the front yard and a moveable fence for free ranging with them.

Think he will understand chicken Math?

I have so much guilt now. I do not like being naughty. But we love the feathered ones. It just kinda happened. I feel like a hoarder now!

 
I will say I did at least list the 3 bantam roos on craigslist! (We have no bantam hens soooo..... they need to go!)
 
I love chicken math. But beginning to think I have all roos! 14 of them unless I get lucky. 5 of my chicks combs have stayed small, pink. But at times they all roost together so its not boys watching girls. Only 2 so far have begun to crow, abeit broken record crowing lol but one is a NN and the other is my lovely Equinox silver and black. I dont have any rules here I can keep them, sell extras or eat them. The oldest of my second group are 3 months. Hoping to get some pics again this week since there are a few changed so drastically!
 
Oldmomma said:
I love chicken math. But beginning to think I have all roos! 14 of them unless I get lucky. 5 of my chicks combs have stayed small, pink. But at times they all roost together so its not boys watching girls. Only 2 so far have begun to crow, abeit broken record crowing lol but one is a NN and the other is my lovely Equinox silver and black. I dont have any rules here I can keep them, sell extras or eat them. The oldest of my second group are 3 months. Hoping to get some pics again this week since there are a few changed so drastically!
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Don't forget that females get "red faced" when they are about to lay. How old are they?
 
Book said:
CHICKEN MATH IS CRAZY!

We rent this huge house and it has 2 acres. We asked the landlord before renting it if we could have a small coop of chickens and he said yes, just not in the back in a certain area. No problem, the front is HUGE.

So we got a coop and 6 chicks and we do great with them! We put them out in the coop at 8 weeks. But then the Chicken Math starts. Chickens are so easy and we really have wanted ducks. I am sure the landlord wouldn't mind a few.... or so everyone supported my madness. LOL He did say pest control is up to us and ducks eat bugs too right? (I hate GA bugs!)

So we get 4 ducklings. Some where in there I decide we just have to hatch eggs with the Easter Hatch-Along. The kids were thrilled. So 3 bantams hatch. So that brought us up to 13 feathered things right? Well it didn't feel like a lot as the ducks where still in the brooder and the chicks in the mini brooder.

Only then a predator gets 3 of our chickens outside. (no idea what) Our 3 favorites. My son was very upset about the loss of the only easter egger.

You see where this is going right?

So the ducks are big enough to go outside! This leaves the big brooder open! And with a loss in our hearts we end up with 4 more chicks. 2 Barred Rock and 2 New Hampshires. Only the son was still very sad about the Easter Egger. So we end up getting 2 more chicks, an olive egger and a real americana. He was so thrilled.

Then the teenage daughter got all upset as one of the chickens was hers and she didn't get to pick special chickens! We ended up with a EE rooster and 2 light brahms about 3 months old.

But then.... Super hot day and the chicks dumped their water and we were out and didn't see and so we lost the Americana. Heart broken boy, again. At this point I wasn't even counting how many chickens we had.

So then we find 2 dutch chickens months old on craigs list.... son loves them and so now, some how.... we are up to 20 feathered pets.

Think the land lord will notice? (He has yet to come by in 4 months... Maybe he never will?) We have coops that we move around the front yard and a moveable fence for free ranging with them.

Think he will understand chicken Math?

I have so much guilt now. I do not like being naughty. But we love the feathered ones. It just kinda happened. I feel like a hoarder now!

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Yea, that is what happened to me. Started with 4 chicks, but then I wanted colored eggs, so got EE, Wanted a green egg, so got an olive egger, but it turned out to be a male, so I had to get another one.......etc, etc. Now up to close to 44 chickens, although that is counting some Welsummer pullets that are for sale and another boy or two I just hatched that will have to be rehomed.
 

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