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Yes, I give them grit in the food from day one and then take them outside as soon as I can to run around and scratch in the living soil.

I gave my little ones supervised time to free range

“Studies show that sulfur is very effective at treating mites and has been used for a long time by commercial animal farmers to control pests. It’s even used to control pests on plants like fruit trees. If you want to go this route you can do a couple of things. One is by adding handful of...

Can you follow feathers? My wife tracked down one our pullets that a stray dog had caught and carried off. She found the bird alive and rescued it.

For a little chick, maybe just some peat/sand

Mine just go outside and find appropriate spots. If I was going to make a dust bathe in a run I would probably use a mixture of peat, sand, wood ash, diatomaceous earth and maybe sulfur.

I’m pretty sure chicks will dust bathe as soon as they are stable on their feet and have the appropriate environment to do it. I would say within the first week.

I have 3 or 4 that look a lot like this black fibro chick.

Here’s another one that I’m on the fence about. I would like for it to be a pullet, but I’m pretty sure with the red shoulders and thick legs, it’s a cockerel. It came from a large pink egg and i think dad was fibro-olive egger. It has interesting blue gray legs and looks like a bob white quail.

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Sorry to hear that. Did you happen to open up their crops? I’ve heard of chickens eating cut grass and dying because the long pieces of grass get all balled up in the crop.

Here’s a video of my whiting true blue chicks dust bathing at day 10.

Can you automate the pop door so you don’t have to let them in and out? What about larger feeders and water containers. Your feelings are completely normal. How many birds in your flock?

The all white fibro chick. Pretty freaky. I’m hoping it’s a pullet, but I have a feeling it’s a cockerel. Any guesses?