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Jackylegs

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Sick baby chicken
« on: December 20, 2013, 04:18 »
Can you help me please i have lots of chickens. And they had some chicks a about 3 weeks ago and one is sick with this runny green poo. It cant walk properly but when i pick it up and take it to water it drinks and and eats food and it sleeps alot it's like it is always tired. what should i do.



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Re: Sick baby chicken
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2013, 19:30 »
Is there blood in the poo? Chicks are very prone to coccidiosis. Just a thought could be many things. :)

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Re: Sick baby chicken
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2013, 06:28 »
No i have not seen any but she limps around when she walks  :wacko:
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Re: Sick baby chicken
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2013, 13:12 »
Runny green poo can be a sign of worms - have they been wormed with a chemical wormer recently?

Hope she gets better.
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Re: Sick baby chicken
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2013, 23:38 »
Update i found runny blood in her poop and its mostly blood  and she still has the same symptoms as before and no she has not been wormed and how do i do that like what do i buy. Because i live in new Zealand. thank you so much for your feed back.
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Re: Sick baby chicken
« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2013, 08:55 »
Hi Jackylegs

The product most UK keepers use is Flubenvet 1% medicated premixture, that you mix into the feed.  I've checked my pack to see if there is a minimum age for the birds to be wormed and it doesn't give one, but looking around on the internet, it does seem that 3 weeks would be considered very young to worm.

There is a lot of useful info on this site, like the poo guide here.  This is a sticky topic at the top of the Hen House page

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=17568.0

There are also a whole load of links to useful information here

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=4748.0

I've not raised young chicks before, so can't offer any personal experience to help I'm afraid  :(
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Re: Sick baby chicken
« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2013, 22:12 »
Thank you for your feedback i have looked at the poo chart. And her poo is normal but the other day it had blood in it so Im still concerned about her i will keep her in the house until i think she is ready to be independent

merry Christmas :)

I will post updates of her if anyone is interested
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