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I wonder if it is breed or that you have chicks with mothers. I have chicks 3 months old that don't dust bath. I also tend to buy chicks so perhaps they don't have a role model.
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Probably that I usually have my girls raise the chicks. With the hens, the chicks are dust bathing as soon as they lose their baby chick feathers. When I raise them, it can take them until they're mature to start dust bathing. But then again, the Gamebirds I raise tend to know to dust bathe whether they have a hen or not.I wonder if it is breed or that you have chicks with mothers. I have chicks 3 months old that don't dust bath. I also tend to buy chicks so perhaps they don't have a role model.
Would like credible help please:
I have 3 newly hatched chicks and one has curled toes. So in my panic to try to fix it...I used duct tape. Yes it was dumb...I know that now. But he/she can't walk at all like her little buddies can. So seeing that, I thought, why don't I take it off abd use masking tape, I mean it's lighter, right? So I took her out of the incubator and set to work and quickly realized that duct tape, stuck to itself, is IMPOSSIBLE to get off. In the process her nail started to bleed a bit. What do I do? Do I take steps to take it off now? Or wait until her toes are straight, and then try? Help needed please!! And she just hatched this morning.
Ok thank you very much. This has been helpful. I didn't think about her skin being raw. Acute observation. But, if anyone has any idea about a solution...
None of their food is left out in the open, and none of the storage bins are leaking. I already found the issue though, I posted earlier this week that I found lice on my birds and eggs on the chicks. I treated everybody on Sunday. I lost another chick today, but I believe it was because this chick got too cold. Him and his siblings were outside and their heat lamp broke, and I didn't rush to get a new one since they were 5 weeks old and had their adult feathers in, and had done well the past few nights without one. And other chicks his age had done well without one. Where I live the temperature reaches the high 90's during the day and mid 70's at night, so I wasn't concerned, but he must've tried to sleep away from his siblings.I think there is some type of bacteria being passed around. Any chance the rain & humidity is causing moldy food? That would kill them fast too. I know it costs to use a vet but, having one or two dead/dying chicks or chickens examined /or necropsied may point to the reason. Otherwise they will be hatched and die, and cause you even more grief.
For now I would cut way back on hatching or acquiring new birds - till you find out what is killing them.