Building materials have toxic chemicals in them? Bad food? Cold temperature shocked/damaged their system. My local Rural King stores do not have warm enough bulbs on their chicks and they're all huddled up. Probably loss rate is high for them (for the customer maybe and for sure for the store). I told them and they were to put a higher wattage bulb in for them. People just don't either care or just have no knowledge how sensitive these little lives are.Hey Lazy Gardener,
So far this shipment of 50 broiler chicks I have lost 13 to (we suspect shipping issues) and now the last five to this strange issue. The one pictured was approximently 10 days old. And I just looked in on the remaining 32 and it looks as if two more maybe going down. I did notice that one of them had what looked like blood coming from it rear.
As I stated before they are in a brand new brooding house with all new materials, clean straw and fresh water and water with a vitamin supplement.
The only thing different from years past is the new house, instead of a brooding box.
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