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Thank you so much! 👍

I'm glad this thread is still active! I noticed blood-tinged droppings from a 6-week-old pullet two nights ago and I followed her around yesterday, grabbed fresh poo right after she dropped it, and it had wriggling worms inside. 😱 I've seen plenty of dried tapeworm segments from cats but never...

Bumping my own post. I also have Valbazen. Anyone have a tip on dosing instructions for chicks?? My two-week-old babies have parasites too. 😞 Thank you for any help!

Sorry if this is old hat, but I've looked around and I'm not quite sure if I can give fenbendazole paste to a chick. Got visible worms in slightly bloody stool and I want to get on this ASAP for her. All I've got on hand is the equine paste and tomorrow is a holiday. Dosage is a "pea-sized...

So I can chime in just to say that I happened to be out with my baby chicks when a jay went straight into the chicken house. I protected the babies and hurried over and closed the door. Jay was trapped in the house. Right place right time when I was keeping an eye on everything on a day off...

Thank you so much! I've been doing a pretty good job forgiving myself. It does not seem like it was going to hatch as it developed facing the wrong way and seemed quite weak after being two days late with a dwindling oxygen supply. Someone shared with me that they can hatch wrong end by external...

The only opening is an automatic door, chicken-sized where they walk up a ramp and enter. There's a red light flashing constantly throughout day and night on the door. I even put a fake owl up on the gate. I've even stood there watching it enter my chicken house, asking it what it's doing. It...

I have an antibiotic I can give him, thank you! It always seems like chickens are studs when it comes to skin infections. I keep thinking she's going to get a staph infection with exposed bone like that but I feel like it works differently in birds since it's been about a month now with little...

I hope you found a solution to the wild bird problem! Last year a scrub jay attacked and nearly killed one of my chicks it managed to scare out of the pen, and I'm now losing up to four eggs a day to the jays Was hoping there was a way to teach the birds not to steal the eggs since they're...

I'm not sure if he'd take her in or not, but it looks like it did break off at the small wing joint, just not the one inside the skin. 🤦‍♀️ Sweet girl is so tough! Thank you for your response. :-)

Hello! Asking for a friend who is not on BYC. ;) At least 3 weeks ago now he moved his pullets from the garage to an outside chick run and discovered one chick had a bald side. After he investigated he discovered she had a bloody nub with about half an inch of bone exposed due to a night where...

Sure :) The one is obviously a boy, including behavior. I believe the rest are females and all have the combs of the chick in the first/upper pic. They just seem a little faster to develop than my other breeds but maybe it's just because they're bigger birds.

Darn it. 😅 I ordered six females. One failed to thrive and one is clearly developing a comb and wattles at four weeks that is beyond anyone else's. That's four left. But the ones I think are females are still developing combs faster than my other breeds. Thanks for the thread. ;)

Update just for fun. Mama weaned her chicks at exactly 4 weeks old, pecking them away and not sleeping with them at night. But she had taught them so well that they roosted in the chicken house with all the big birds and were just fine. The very next day she laid an egg. Good job, Mama. 🥰 I...

I am learning as much as I can about this right now. I was meticulous incubating the first time and had six out of seven eggs hatch into healthy babies, but on day 23 I still saw no movement and no internal pip from the seventh egg. I opened it to find a live baby and didn't know to look for...