chick help

Hey guys!!! I was at my local north 40 and I saw these chickens that they will have available soon. One day green egger and the other says olive. I was wondering what the difference is other than the look of the chicken! I am looking to add a second olive egger to the flock that lays a deep...

My baby chick is four weeks old, a few days ago her left eye was extremely swollen it looked as if she scratched her lid right off. I’ve put Neosporin on it, it was looking better but today this red area/broken skin showed up looking worse than it’s ever been. Could it be she scratched it again...

I just got 8 ameraucana chicks, they are about 2 days old. One of them (the lightest gray in the pictures) eats and pecks around normally, but when it goes to drink, it tilts its head way far back and falls over almost every time. I looked it up and a few different things said it could be wry...

I don't know how to best explain it, but the way I can explain it may give a good explanation as to what is happening to my baby chick. First off, I wish I had a pic, but as of writing, the chick seems to be standing just normally. Anyway, the chick in question looks to be growing their...

Hello! So i just got 5 day old chicks yesterday and im brooding them in my room for two weeks before moving them outside and expanding the brooder. as soon as they got settled they became very quiet and happy, and very friendly. Darting in and out of the heat pad, eating a bunch and drinking...

Hey there my hen decided after hatching 6 of her eggs that she's going to be crazy now. Something went wrong with the other chick due today and it's yolk didn't absorb right and momma hen neglected it as well and it passed. She's breaking open the shells for the babies though before they are...

I ordered 7 chicks from Mt. Healthy Hatchery, and they hatched either on 4/2/2022 or early 4/3/2022. They shipped on 4/3/2022, and I just received them today, 4/5/2022. They all are happy and healthy, except the extra chick, that Mt. Heathy included as a 2% margin for any chicks that might...

I have a five day old chick named Haebelle who was hatched by a broody chicken. My broody was an excellent mom and took her baby everywhere and taught her everything. Today my momma hen was attack and killed by a pit bull who broke into the coop and now little Haebelle keeps crying for her...

I'm new to raising chicks myself this year and currently have a flock of 6 that are around 5 days old, however one has taken a turn for the worse in the past 6 hours or so I had seen her eat and drink (water treated with Sav-a-Chick, she was pecking at the dry chick starter as well as the mash...

Hello! We have been letting our hen hatch a few eggs and this morning one was super cracked and crushed- but the chick is alive. We haven’t been tracking it super closely- but the eggs should be hatching this week I think. Is the egg hatching or cracked, and what should I do? It’s been like this...

i think my chick that hatched last night either has splade leg or something else wrong with it's legs. I have an egg carton and some tiny rubber bands, so I'm trying to fashion the tiny cuff things but wanted to post for any other ideas of how to help my little chick.

Hello, I have had an extremely difficult time with these chicks. My family has two hens in our backyard and one was broody but no rooster to make a baby. We got her some fertilized eggs from a farm near us, and five out of six hatched. When the first chick hatched, our hen did everything she was...

The other day I noticed that one of my silkie chicks eyelids were kinda pulling away from her eye on her left side, the right side is a little droopy but not as much. I became more concerned when it got a little watery and she began to close it more often, other than that she is acting normal...

We recently lost a nest of guinea eggs to a neighborhood dog, the eggs we saved were out under our broody chicken. She has hatched 2, one chicken, one guinea. The chick looks ‘normal’ with the exception that it does not have the use of 1 leg. The leg is at an odd angle and the chick hobbles...

One of my chicks, that is already smaller than the rest, fell in the water and got soaked yesterday. I tried drying her off but it wasn't much help. She's been very quiet and doesn't move much anymore. Do you think she's in shock, just a little cold, other??

Hello! Just joined and I am so thrilled!!! Anyways, I have 18 chickens, (three being roosters) And we have one batch of 8 that is around 7 or 8 months and then we have a 5 month batch of ten. I have a incubator coming and have researched like crazy about it and so I now know all the details (...

Hi, my name is Sarah and I'm a new member (long time BYC reader/researcher, first time question). Yesterday, I received day old chicks in the mail for a broody buff orpington named Buffy. Buffy has been broody for over 3 weeks and 3 days ago I successfully moved her to the broody box. She...

i have a chick approximately 8 weeks old. Momma hen hatched out 11 babies and has raised them herself. I recently noticed one of them standing by itself. Upon further inspection I found this little one with what looks like a pimple on its eye. I tried "flushing" with sterile saline and...

Hi everyone, we bit the bullet yesterday and purchased one black silkie and one white silkie both females 8 weeks- and a partridge silkie rooster 12 weeks old. We have the coop inside a secure outhouse and I've laid sawdust all over the floor and in the coop with hay. They also have a roost in...