chick help

  1. hitsonhens

    Chick with eye problem

    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...
  2. Newmummy123

    Brand newly hatched silkie chicken owner!

    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...
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    • advice needed chick help feed-vitamins-health-care-wormers food housing new at this newbie silkies vaccine
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  3. Gracie123

    Chicks been attacked

    We recently put some eggs under our broody hen and sadly only one of them hatched. She spent the first seven days keeping it in the coop (an old shed that we converted, but a large area to run around etc... with food and water) and then the last three days she has been taking it out to forage in...
  4. Stormydays

    Is there hope?

    I bought some chicks off of Meyer hatchery and they came in this morning. I picked up the chicks at 6:30am. I have a brinsea ecoglow brooder, provided food and water(with ACV), and had one die within two hours of getting them home. About one and a half hours later a second chick started not...
  5. NicolleJean

    Help Needed for Foster Hen

    Hi Everyone, My Blue Sumatra has been broody for give or a take a month. I gave her a fake egg because she was "stealing" my other two hen's eggs. I brought home a chick tonight for her to foster and it did not go so well. The chick is less than a week old (only a few little wing feathers on...
  6. NicolleJean

    Foster Hen Fail...*Help*

    Hi Everyone, My Blue Sumatra has been broody for give or a take a month. I gave her a fake egg because she was "stealing" my other two hen's eggs. I brought home a chick tonight for her to foster and it did not go so well. The chick is less than a week old (only a few little wing feathers on...
  7. NicolleJean

    Can Anyone Help Sex These Chicks?

    Looking to pick up a chick for my broody hen. Can anyone tell me by the feathering if there is a chance any of these are female? These chicks are less than a week old if that helps.
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