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Where are they housed and how much ventilation do they have? Any changes like adding new birds in the last 30 days, adding straw/bedding, closing up windows? They were housed outside in a wooden coop, but were brought inside into the front room of the house... which is when they started losing...

Hi, we have four chickens. They've had loss of appetite for about 4 days now, and their poop has been light green. This could be due to the bile from not really eating. Today two of them are sneezing, so we suspect it could be a respiratory infection. One of the sneezing ones also had diarrhea...

It seems that the baby chick is completely unable to stand and walk anymore, it stays spawled on it's side, eyes closed, legs out, legs shaking. Over the night it was laying like it was dead (scared me) yet jumped back up and ate a little bit.

I'm just scared if it doesn't have coccidiosis I'd be giving the wrong thing, versus something like vitamins which could be what it needs? I did read that this age is about the time cocci could happen. I also don't want to restart the Enrotex as it is a antibiotic, but if that may be what helps...

Hi all, I have a baby chick that is one month old. It has always been a voracious eater. 3/15 Last Sunday, we noticed that its neck feathers were puffed up. On last Monday, it was very lethargic. After speaking to the lady at the Feed Store we listened to her instructions to give it Enrotex...

Thank you both for replying! The chick is doing much better now!! We've started letting it out to walk around, it has a great time. Although yes I believe we should be adding in vitamins. I've been looking at human vitamin b complex since I've read that it could work, but is there any brand in...

Hi! This baby chick is 2 weeks old. Its been constantly jumping at the sides and corners of the box we have the baby chicks in. However, yesterday, it seemed to be not doing so well because we found it being trampled by the other ones while lying down on its side with its feet out. We fed some...