Need help quickly. Day old and 2 day old chicks in trouble

[nikolairapunzel]

I am glad to hear it. Hope they continue to thrive!!

 

[WVduckchick]

Glad they seem to be doing better. Odd that certain chicks had issues when others didn’t, but we’ll just hope the worst is past.

 

[oregonkat]

@aart, @WVduckchick @Wyorp Rock
Hello my friends, I am revisiting this page because this morning once again, one of these chicks/pullet up and died in exactly the same fashion as the original chicks. Sitting hunched and shaking and seemingly unable to get a good breath. Died after spasming and gasping. I decided to cut her open and see if I could see anything of any use in diagnosis. She was full of a yellow liquid:
I dont know if this is normal, and I couldnt see anything else much, her organs that I could see did not look bad but I really dont know what the heck I'm doing.

 

[aart]

Bird from same batch as before?
Yellow fluid is ascites.
You'd need to pull all the organs out to get a good look at them,
kinda hard to do unless you've slaughtered before.
Sorry for your loss

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I'm sorry about your chick

Agree with @aart the fluid is Ascites, but what caused it - hard to know.

 

[oregonkat]

@aart, yes same batch as before but the chicks were from 2 different breeders. In looking up ascites in chickens, I see it can be caused by poor quality feeds. There is one older hen in with this flock of chicks and she has here own feed (chicken feed from the local grange, relatively new bag, and the chicks are being fed with a chick raiser feed. Does the owner of the poultry need to throw the feed away? No other signs of this in the other chicks....

 

[aart]

@aart, yes same batch as before but the chicks were from 2 different breeders. In looking up ascites in chickens, I see it can be caused by poor quality feeds. There is one older hen in with this flock of chicks and she has here own feed (chicken feed from the local grange, relatively new bag, and the chicks are being fed with a chick raiser feed. Does the owner of the poultry need to throw the feed away? No other signs of this in the other chicks....

Ehhh...hard to say if the feed had anything to do with it.
Ascites is caused by disease and the resultant organ failure.
Unless bird is necropsied with pathology, you may never know what killed it or caused the ascites.

I've had a couple birds with ascites, when gutting birds it was obvious the causes.
One had tumors throughout the intestines.
The other was EYP or internal laying.

 

[WVduckchick]

You guys are better at that stuff than I am.

I would also like @casportpony to see those pics.

Does it happen to be as wet there as it is here?