lhousesoccer
Chirping
- Feb 26, 2010
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Hey everyone: this is my first year with meat birds. I ordered 12 Cornish Rock X's and they arrived May 5th. Today, I went out this morning to feed and water them, and one was lying dead in the pine shavings in the bottom of the coop. It looked normal - no injuries or anything that I could see that might be a cause.
The only strange thing I noticed was thta there were blobs of mucous (very gross looking) in the shavings. It kind of looked like poop but sort of clear, but tinged reddish. Very disgusting. Is there something going on with my chickens I should be worried about? I just switched them over from the Blue Seal Chicken Starter mash (20% protein) to a Blue Seal Chick and Game Bird Grower crumbled (22% protein). I can't imagine that being the cause but you never know.
Any ideas? Should I be worried? And oh yeah, the bedding smells! But I've read in other threads that this is normal with this birds.
The only strange thing I noticed was thta there were blobs of mucous (very gross looking) in the shavings. It kind of looked like poop but sort of clear, but tinged reddish. Very disgusting. Is there something going on with my chickens I should be worried about? I just switched them over from the Blue Seal Chicken Starter mash (20% protein) to a Blue Seal Chick and Game Bird Grower crumbled (22% protein). I can't imagine that being the cause but you never know.
Any ideas? Should I be worried? And oh yeah, the bedding smells! But I've read in other threads that this is normal with this birds.