For indoors we've had good luck with a litter box with a heating pad under it or a cardboard box with a plastic placemat in the bottom and we put little roosting bars so they get up there and sleep and they're not sitting in their poop and discovered that it's better without bedding. When...
I have a little chick that has had pasty butt and I didn't think you would make it for the last couple of days but his butt looks a little better but his crop is really swollen and he just stands there looking weak and he's maybe a third of the size of his siblings like he's starving to death...
I got a couple of photos now so any ideas would be much appreciated. I gave him another bath with Epsom salts and got him to drink a little bit of coconut oil along with some water and I saw him eating earlier so I'm not sure what to do now.
Have one little chick smallest of six that has a red protrusion from his butt. I gave him three warm baths and cleaned him up yesterday put Vaseline on. He seems pretty lethargic. I made sure he's drinking water and I know he ate a little food yesterday but I'm not sure about today. Is there...
I have one that's struggling super small compared to the siblings and has a big red protrusion and I don't know what to do other than giving him warm baths and clean him up and putting Vaseline. Is that the right thing to do? Should I give him castor oil? Seems kind of lethargic so I'm making...
I've got one with the red hanging out. What you mean? I'm worried because he seems smaller and less active. Sitting in the sun resting. I soaked him and cleaned him up and put Vaseline. Anything else I can do? The others are fine
The babies were parking lot chickens in the Florida Keys that we brought home and one that we bred from orphans. We don’t know what breed or sex they are except it seems the largest is female. Can you help?