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    Chick death rate.

    I have no idea why they died, they came from a company that we have not ordered from before and it took them about 24-36 hours in shipping. Nothing wrong with their water and their bed was clean. We did the same things that we normally do. Thanks!
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    Chick death rate.

    Hi everyone, We ordered cornish cross meat chicks about a week ago and in general through their 7-8 weeks before processing we generally lose about 5% of the chickens. This order we lost 18 chicks out of 60 in about 24 hours. 18!!!!!!!!! We have never had that happen before has anyone else...
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    Chick hopping around on one foot, no splay leg. What is wrong?!?!?

    I have a Cornish cross meat chick (about 4 days old), which since this morning has been hopping around on one foot. It can move it's other leg but it holds it out to the side a little bit and puts most of its weight on its other foot. The chicks legs appear to be pretty normal as do its feet...
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    Wet meat birds

    We are being careful with the lamps they are still about 3-4 feet up from the hay.
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    Wet meat birds

    Our tractor is covered by a tarp we have not figured out how they got so wet, they are completely sheltered on all sides. I think it was just the pure volume of rain we had. Thanks!
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    Wet meat birds

    We got about 6 inches of rain last night and our 5 week old meat birds (are in a chicken tractor) were cold and wet for about 6 hours. It was about 55 degrees outside. We put some hay down for them to lay in and moved there 2 heat lamps lower. Is there anything else that you would recommend...
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