vitamins

Hi all, I had a broody hatch out 5 chicks, and one was still in the egg a day after the rest. Because momma is flighty and was already taking breaks off the nest, I took this one inside and popped it in the incubator hoping it would finish the hatch. I ended up having to assist the hatch, but...

Just about every time I have researched what could be wrong with a chick, specific vitamin deficiencies come up. If chickens have so many issues with select vitamin deficiencies, I’m wondering why everything is always labeled for goats or cows, or people post questionable dosage instructions...

Hello, Flock! Greetings from the Fleet (Orpington booties look like sailing ships...duh!). I (a human person) have been struggling with mysterious symptoms for some years now at 25 years old. I finally might have an answer...a vitamin B12 deficiency! I will be starting supplements but would...

I have a small flock of 7. My Wyandottes lay a tan colored egg but my golden (I think) is now laying a white egg with calcium deposits. She is also missing tail feathers. Although there are no signs of bleeding or mites. Her feathers are beginning to come back. I’ve read all about the calcium...

My chicken is recovering from Coccidiosis and she is doing great! We gave her Corid for 4 days, orally and it’s in her water as well (she wasn’t really drinking) We decided to stop giving her Corid after 4 days. Now, we have to figure out when to give her the vitamin drench or whatever it’s...

I'm fairly new to having backyard poultry, only for about a year and a half. I bought my first chicks from TS in September 2020. They told me to feed them chick starter, which I did and all was fine but they did not recommend any other type of supplements, vitamins or electrolytes. When the...

Hi,I am having some issues with my babys. 2 pics added of the brahma siblings, 5 weeks old,the small one died not 10 minutes ago,this is the size diff and lack of growth i am talking about,yes I washed my hands before handling the live one. I have lost far too many chicks in the past 2...

Hi all! Really thankful for this community. I have a 3.5 week old olive egger that arrived via shipping with 14 other chicks. The rest are doing awesome, but one little guy (getting a boy vibe) started acting lethargic around 2 weeks old. He’s always been a total loner and would mostly stand...

I've started to worry about our scissor beak hen. She has been our best layer (once laying two eggs in one day!), and she is as sweet as can be. For the past few days, when we let her out of the coop she runs to an exposed patch of ground pecking furiously at snail shells. We have started to...

Hey guys! I'm new to the Backyard Chickens site, and fairly new to chicken keeping - i've been doing it for 2 years now. Today while cleaning my flock's coop, I noticed that one of my chickens (a 2 year old hen) was not being herself - lethargic, hunched over, not eating and barely moving. I...

Hi there, I'm new to hatching and have just hatched 3 Indian runner ducklings. One of them has a crooked neck. It's not as bad as some of the pictures I have seen and he/she is able to drink and eat on there own. I have ordered some vitamin D infant drops, which have vitamin D3, Vitamin E and...

I have a mixed flock of turkeys, ducks, and silkies. Some are adopted so I don’t know everyone’s age but I think the oldest are around 3 and still laying. I’d like to start giving them some extra supplements to make sure they stay healthy for as many years as possible. Does anyone have...

I recently had a rooster become paralyzed. I read and read and treated him for a vitamin deficiency. In a couple days I saw improvement. It's been about 2 weeks and he appears to have recovered. I've seen quite a few posts of paralyzed birds and vitamins suggested. It make's me wonder why...

Is it possible to give to much Vit b as in If given over a prolonged period of time can it build up and be too much in a ducks system?? I know the correct dosage is important. May be a dumb questions to some but I cant find anything online to answer this question!

I have two one year old EE's who lay blue-green eggs. Like many colored egg layers, their eggs started out with beautiful bright coloring and over the last year they've gotten lighter. Some days they look white instead of blue. I know this can be related to age, diet, or stress. They're not...

Hi! I bought six pullets from TSC (our feed/equipment, greedy corporate, but convenient and seductive, store) about eight weeks ago. Two Wyandottes, two Marans, one Americauna and one Polish. They have lived alone, together, since. They were mostly in a brooder area inside, as our winter...

I bought this because it was the only available product to give to my new chicks, within about an hour they were acting dopy, putting their heads down, then they would flop around violently and then quit breathing. This product has killed most of my chicks within an hour. Why would this product...

Hello all, I have a chick, just about four days old, who appears to have a wry neck. Although its condition is opposite the normal description of wry neck (i.e., stargazing) because it's head/neck bends down. It often tucks its head under its body, starts walking backward and then flips over...

I am looking for help with my Khaki Campbell duck. She is one of two females who are going to be 5 years old at the end of this April. Dilly, along with the other duck, had shown no signs of distress or sickness up until this point. Last Sunday evening, now nearly a week ago, I found her...