I over paid for my first 4 day old chicks! I paid 25.00 for 4 barred rocks from a rough looking lady that advertised online! I went back the next day and paid 14 dollars for a day old appenzeller and then 11 for a mixed breed 0.0 (I was new to chickens) with in a week all but 2 had gotten sick (dropped wings, no energy, wouldn't eat or drink, eventually died) I vowed to never buy anything else from her again! She ends up writing me about a week ago and asks would I trade her 2 of my 2.5 month old D'uccles and 2 Ameraucanas for some of her Yokohama chicks! I had posted online that I was looking for Yokohamas so after some thought I decided to do it! She said all her chicks died from sickness and she would never sale a sick chick (although she did to me??) and that she burnt her boorder and everything has been doing really good now no sickness what so ever! She had a ton of chicks so against my better judgment I traded my 4 older chicks for 7 of her red shoulder Yokohama's! 4 tiny day olds and 3 older probably 2 week olds! She promised it was safe to put them in with my expensive shipped eggs I hatched that were new chicks! I get home and 2 days later the first tiny one dies and the next day one of MY chicks die and then the day after that another one of her young ones die! I moved the older 3 and 2 tiny ones that were left out to our storage house in my chick room that has several different boorders in it! Last night another young chick falls over dead and I have one of the older chicks in a "sick tank" due to both eyes being swelled shut and it doesn't have a ton of energy! Its been there for about 5 days! Just kinda stands there but doesn't drop its wings! Then I noticed this morning that the 2 older seemly healthy Yokohama's had one eye each that was swelled shut! I can pull their eye lids apart and see white creamy puss in them! The older one Ive had in isolation for a while I've been treating with vetrx over its eyes an on its head and thats not phased it! I've also been giving duramycin in its water! I really don't want these guys to die! They are so hard to find! So I had some antibiotic left over from the vet and I mixed a little water and some meds and drew it in a medicine dropped an squirted some down each chicks throat! What can I do for their eyes? And what the crap can this sickness be? I'm so tired of this! I should have known better from my first terrible experience with her chicks! It almost stopped me from getting into chickens period! Its a shame someone would do that to somebody! I have 4 left out of 7 and all but ones eyes are swelled shut! I raise tons of chicks and at any give point I have at least 20 chicks and my boorders are normally full! I've never had a problem with chicks dying like this! She acts like its normal! I sure hope hers haven't given mine anything or gotten anything contagious in my boorders! ;-( I have pied peachicks in the same boorders and $100 each malay chicks and expensive silkies etc Ugh I need advice quick on what they may have and what I need to do? Doesn't seem like a cold to me no wetness in the nose or sores in the mouth! No dropping of wings really or sneezing! Just swelled eyes and they eventually loose energy and can't see to eat! The day old chicks jus fall over dead with in 24 hours their eyes don't even have time to swell?
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