I put a heated fan near the youngest group last week and raised the room temp to about 70-72.
One of the two passed last night. The other one is still acting off. While It will eat and drink it still Struggles to stand on both feet and falls onto its right side, using its wings to stabilize...
We stopped the vitamins for a week while we treated the first two groups with corid and haven’t seen any losses. Added roster boater when we stopped corid.
In smallest we had another chick pass on Thursday. No signs or symptoms just found it under the heat plate in the morning.
I just noticed...
Good Call, I just ordered some poultry netting. I have one Dampierre who likes to join one of the younger groups that share a wall, luckily thus far he gets back in with the big ones on his own.
92 appears to be when there is a chick laying on the Govee, right now without a chick the govee is reading 86, this is under the brooder plate. The temp of the rest of their area is 67. Good call out on the extra vitamins and the corid, Only 1 of the chicks that passed was having issues with...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
I moved from the city to 13 acres in December and started raising my own. Growing up my dad always had chickens and I had ducks.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
55 chicks that are ranging from 3 days -4 weeks
(3) What...
Hello and thank you for all the help in advance! I've been using this message board to try and diagnose my issue for about a week and half with no success.
We first hatched 23 chicks from eggs bought thru Ebay from GreenFire Farms and they all hatched except for one that didn't grow past the...