#sickchick

Is this coccidiosis? Bright red stool, week old Serama chick, seems healthy, vent is clean

Hello! I have a baby Salmon Faverolles who was active and spunky Thursday and Friday; running, eating, drinking, curious about everything, very social. Today she has been unsocial, sets herself away from the others. She just stands where placed then eventually lays there. It’s been a huge...

Hi! Last week on 6/21, I took home 7 baby chicks. 6 of them are the same size/seem to be the same age, and the other is about 2x the size so I assume older. The woman I got them from did not let me know - I *think* the younger ones are a week or two old, and the larger one 2-3 weeks. A few...

Hi everyone! I have some sad news. I have this three week old baby silkie chick. Last Thursday I noticed this on her bottom eye lid and assumed it was a cut from another chick that had gotten infected? The first picture is what it looked like last Thursday. I started treating it like a cut...

First time chicken owner here. I got 21 chicks, that are 1 week old now. I have 9 polish, 5 easter eggers, 5 speckled sussex and 2 olive eggers. They came from a hatchery. They've been on medicated feed since coming home. Their brooder is 8' x 4' and I use a Ecoglow 1200 brooder plate for their...