My best guess is that they were stressed out. In total I have lost 3 brown leghorns 2 rir 1 buff Orpington 3 white leghorns. So that's 9 total. I have 28 very healthy chicks though!
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Some are huddled. The ones that look sleepy or sick. Others are running around making all kinds of chirps and eating and drinking. The ones that are huddled are wgere the heat lamp is pointing. The thermometer is .5 deg off. Put it in cup of ice water and read 32.5deg.
It's a 100 gallon horse trough. Yes they have ventilation. The heat lamp is in a corner so the chicks can self regulate themselves. Get closer or farther to get Warmer or cooler. Where they are all huddled in a ball is 98 deg
They were shipped to us. When we put them in the brooder we dipped each beak into their waterer. We put a 1 to 8 ratio of gatorade in their waterer to give them an extra kick start. There is chick start in there that the healthy chicks are chowing away on.
I purchased 30 chicks from a hatchery.
RiR
Black star
Jersey giant
Brown leghorn
Buff Orpington
I received 36 chicks and the six extra are a breed I ain't figured out yet. They don't seem to be doing very good. 3 of them have been gasping for air and than die??? I had 2 RiR chicks do it and 1...