Lost so many baby chicks!!!😭

[Wyorp Rock]

Please post photos of the brooder, poop and chicks, their legs too.

How does one know if brooder pneumonia is an issue - were the chicks in respiratory distress?

Coccidiosis cannot be treated with ACV. You need a Coccidiostat. Corid is the most common one used, you can find it in the cattle section of stores like TSC.
Liquid Corid dose is 2tsp or Powdered Corid Dose is 1 1/2tsp per gallon of water given for 5-7 days as the only source of drinking water.
Do not add any extra vitamins/electrolytes that contain B1(Thiamine) to food or water during the course of treatment.

How old are the chicks now? If more than a few days old, splayed leg would be something odd. Could be they have curled toe paralysis instead due to nutritional deficiency? Again. Photos would be helpful.

I highly recommend that you try to source a commercial chick feed so the chicks have a balanced diet. It's extremely difficult to make your own and get the formula correct.

 

[JD Chicks]

I hope this doesn’t come off as offensive, but google can only do so much and i’m curious. I thought Celiac only affects when being ingested, how would touching chicken feed cause problems?

I can present with issues from breathing it in as well as touching it. Gluten is a sticky protein. A small fraction of 1 gluten flour grain in a dish of food will contaminate it. As my chicks are in my home and I prepare their food and clean their dishes in my house, I would contaminate my home with gluten, which can put me in the hospital.

 

[Chicken poppy]

I can present with issues from breathing it in as well as touching it. Gluten is a sticky protein. A small fraction of 1 gluten flour grain in a dish of food will contaminate it. As my chicks are in my home and I prepare their food and clean their dishes in my house, I would contaminate my home with gluten, which can put me in the hospital.

I see, that makes sense. Thank you for answering.

 

[Farmgirl283420]

I'm a new chick Mama. I just contacted the hatchery after I lost so many!!! I started with 56. I personally picked them up from the hatchery. My barred rocks and a few of my rhode island Reds got brooder fungus. Many had pasty butt. We cleaned everyday.
We clean the brooder entry 1 1/2 days, new food and water everyday. Water was usually changed Many times a day. Pine shavings bedding.
They were all together. I didn't realize how difficult it was to keep them. A few died off right away. Many died for no outward apparent reason. No pasty butt, no brooder fungus symptoms, no injury. They were running and during the day eating and drinking then they died. It's that normal???
We had me fluctuation off temp because they are near my woodstove. It isn't on all the time. We moved the heat lamp as needed to keep the temp per the age of chicks.
When I spoke to the hatchery, they didn't know the term brooder fungus, they were hugely opposed to using "magic" water(water, acv, garlic, Honey) I researched this as a treatment for illness as well as first day drink for baby chicks. The hatchery said the pasty butt is a symptom of Coccidiosis and I'm to give the chicks 1/4 cup of acv in a qt of water. The chicks had brooder pneumonia not brooder fungus.
Now, the chicks I have left also have splayed or injured legs. I don't know if they all do as I'm in bed with leg injury. My husband is taking care of the chicks. The hatchery recommended hobbling the legs with a cut straw and rubber band.
I just want to make sure of the advice as I've been given a lot of conflicting advice from different people.
I'm down to 11 chicks!!!!
None of the chicks died of pasty butt as we cleaned them gently. I fed water to a few till they drank on their own. I increased their probiotics.
I'm frustrated, sorrowful and am thinking of getting adult birds. I was so excited and am dejected. Any help is very much appreciated!!!

That's horrible I've never lost any of the 13 chicks I raised

 

[Doriss]

Suspicious of the pine bedding. Like cedar, fir and pine have now come under the microscope as likely giving off toxic fumes after a rabbit died of liver damage and there are increasing numbers of rabbit deaths.

 

[Doriss]

I'm a new chick Mama. I just contacted the hatchery after I lost so many!!! I started with 56. I personally picked them up from the hatchery. My barred rocks and a few of my rhode island Reds got brooder fungus. Many had pasty butt. We cleaned everyday.
We clean the brooder entry 1 1/2 days, new food and water everyday. Water was usually changed Many times a day. Pine shavings bedding.
They were all together. I didn't realize how difficult it was to keep them. A few died off right away. Many died for no outward apparent reason. No pasty butt, no brooder fungus symptoms, no injury. They were running and during the day eating and drinking then they died. It's that normal???
We had me fluctuation off temp because they are near my woodstove. It isn't on all the time. We moved the heat lamp as needed to keep the temp per the age of chicks.
When I spoke to the hatchery, they didn't know the term brooder fungus, they were hugely opposed to using "magic" water(water, acv, garlic, Honey) I researched this as a treatment for illness as well as first day drink for baby chicks. The hatchery said the pasty butt is a symptom of Coccidiosis and I'm to give the chicks 1/4 cup of acv in a qt of water. The chicks had brooder pneumonia not brooder fungus.
Now, the chicks I have left also have splayed or injured legs. I don't know if they all do as I'm in bed with leg injury. My husband is taking care of the chicks. The hatchery recommended hobbling the legs with a cut straw and rubber band.
I just want to make sure of the advice as I've been given a lot of conflicting advice from different people.
I'm down to 11 chicks!!!!
None of the chicks died of pasty butt as we cleaned them gently. I fed water to a few till they drank on their own. I increased their probiotics.
I'm frustrated, sorrowful and am thinking of getting adult birds. I was so excited and am dejected. Any help is very much appreciated!!!

Suspicious of the pine bedding. Like cedar, fir and pine have now come under the microscope as likely giving off toxic fumes after a rabbit died of liver damage and there are increasing numbers of rabbit deaths.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Suspicious of the pine bedding. Like cedar, fir and pine have now come under the microscope as likely giving off toxic fumes after a rabbit died of liver damage and there are increasing numbers of rabbit deaths.

Not buying into that one bit. Literally millions of chicks are raised every year on pine shavings. It has been this way for many DECADES I sincerely doubt there is some sudden change in trees that is killing animals.

 

[Farmgirl283420]

Not buying into that one bit. Literally millions of chicks are raised every year on pine shavings. It has been this way for many DECADES I sincerely doubt there is some sudden change in trees that is killing animals.

Phew I thought I was doing something wrong raising my chicks on pine shavings!!

 

[21hens-incharge]

Phew I thought I was doing something wrong raising my chicks on pine shavings!!

Nope. They are fine on pine. Lol a tiny rhyme there.

I have brooded almost 300 myself over 30 years and only lost 3 as chicks. Those were weak to begin with.

 

[HeidiGetsChicks]

I just wanted to validate that raising chicks is HARD.

We incubated 8 eggs, 4 hatched. I realized what I did wrong right at the end or many more would have hatched.

Then one chick died because of another preventable thing that someone on the internet (not this forum) had said would be fine. It wasn't. I took that chick's death the hardest. I will never forget that lesson.

We have three left. Two of them had splayed legs. Treating splayed legs was so hard for us the first day. We tried a few methods but the bandaid method worked best for us. Now that we know how to do it it's no big deal, but it was hours of stress and in one case days of a chick constantly getting the split off somehow, which meant it took a lot longer to correct.

Not to mention several instances of pasty butt.

The chick starter feed we got them is too big for them to eat, so we're contantly grinding it and it's a pain. They've accidentally run out of water (tipped it over) and we didn't notice for half the day. They've run out of food a couple times. They're only 2.5 weeks old and they are HARD to keep alive, though it's now getting easier as they get older.

It's normal to make a lot of mistakes in the beginning no matter how hard you try to do the very best for them. And it's heartbreaking and it really sucks. I'm so sorry you're experiencing that. But you did the right thing coming here, you're getting a lot of great answers and it can only improve from this point onwards. Please keep us updated!