Guinea Keet help?

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Blackpondfarm

Blackpondfarm

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Jul 27, 2015
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I have 14 Guinea Keets from cackle hatchery that appeared to be healthy. It's the 10th day in the brooder for them and one of them appears to have starved? It is so skinny there was no meat on it when it died. There has been food in the brooder 24/7 not running out once and this chick dropped dead in the night. Is it possible that it got sick and wouldn't eat? It had obviously eaten before and was doing fine but I am wondering if it got sick and if I shouldn't expect much from this batch. Thanks, Blackpondfarm
 
How did it look before it died? I have 30 from cackle. 32 were sent and two died within the first 3 days. The rest are now 2 1/2 weeks old. The two that died were white. Three other whites were also ill and 5/6 of the remaining whites are undersized. I had hatchery choice. Anyways, after they die they tend to "deflate". It was probably dehydrated though. How did the cloaca area look? I had a couple with diarrhea and a couple with pasty butt.
 
Even at ten days old there could have been something fatal going on internally- a heart condition, metabolic disorder, or parasite of some sort, for instance. In most cases the congenitally induced fatalities happen within the first week, it seems. Maybe your keet managed to hang on a few more days. Short of a necropsy, you may never know what caused it. It could also be possible that the others piled up on it while sleeping and it suffocated, or some other freak thing like that. Mine were fat puff balls when I got them but the two that died looked flat and emaciated when I found them, although they did not look like that when alive. I know they were eating and drinking, though.
 
Well thanks for your help, I guess no others have had any issues so it should be fine now. Also when I woke up this morning to check on them, the grew their wings OVERNIGHT. Crazy how fast they're growing.
 
They are mostly fluff at that age, when they die and are trampled or walked all over by the others they look deflated, that is natural...

Make sure they are all eating and drinking, I find keets to be stupid most of the time, the batch I just hatched last week won't drink out of of your traditional upside down water bottle thing that I start most chicks with... I had to put in a bowl full of marbles for them even after I repeatably dunked their beaks showing them the other water bottle, they never touched it and still have not touched it, they wait until I refill the bowl then act like they were water deprived... I just put a 2 day old chick in the same brooder and he figured out the other water bottle the keets won't touch within minutes...

Also as said being trampled and smothered while sleeping can happen if they feel cold and are all trying to be in the hot spot of the brooder at once...
 

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