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    Chickens die when it rains

    None of the above issues except no heat lamp or walls. What I've done now is place a 15x20 tarp over the whole thing when it rains or gets cold. I'll update again next rainstorm if it happens again.
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    Chickens die when it rains

    So I have my cornish rocks in a covered chicken tractor. Have chicken wire for sides and corrugated tin roof. They been fine here almost 2 weeks. Birds are about 3 weeks old. We got an in of rain yesterday and at the end of the storm it was cooler outside obviously. I had 6 dead chickens...
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    Chickens die when it rains

    So I have my cornish rocks in a covered chicken tractor. Have chicken wire for sides and corrugated tin roof. They been fine here almost 2 weeks. Birds are about 3 weeks old. We got an in of rain yesterday and at the end of the storm it was cooler outside obviously. I had 6 dead chickens...
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    Chickens die when it rains

    So I have my cornish rocks in a covered chicken tractor. Have chicken wire for sides and corrugated tin roof. They been fine here almost 2 weeks. Birds are about 3 weeks old. We got an in of rain yesterday and at the end of the storm it was cooler outside obviously. I had 6 dead chickens...
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    Dominique Chickens dying

    None, fine 1 day dead the next. Its only this breed.
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    Dominique Chickens dying

    I have 10 Dominique chickens living alongside 10 red ranger chickens. All frd watered the same and 2 years old. Over the last 3 weeks 8 Dominique chickens have died. On another pen I have 4 breeds of chickens together almost 1 year old. Dominique chickens are dying in that pen too. Its...
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    Almost 4 month old Cornish Cross's

    Could really have been, I have no way of knowing. Given my different results from previously Im leaning towards a bantam breed.
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    Almost 4 month old Cornish Cross's

    Sure did then 2 bags of grower/finisher and grass
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    Almost 4 month old Cornish Cross's

    Sounds like I may have gotten some different birds. I feed the grower finisher from tractor supply. They were housed outside with shelter in a chicken tractor on pasture as well.
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    Almost 4 month old Cornish Cross's

    Very good point. They were white and looked like the Cornish cross but could have been a bantum breed. I purchased them from Hoovers Hatchery so I am hard pressed to think they made that kind of mistake.
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    Almost 4 month old Cornish Cross's

    So I processed 12 Cornish Cross chickens. They went through about 100 lbs of grower finisher and also grass fed. The largest 2 weighed in at 3.5 lbs 2 at 3lbs and the rest between 1.5 and 2.5 lbs. I am trying to understand why they weighed so little? anyone else experience this this year...
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    Incubator temp probe worked for 4 days

    Yes, I don't know whether the temp was below 30c but the alarm would not go off. The temp reading was fluctuating all over the place. I was supposed to be able to set the minimum temp but its factory set at 30c and then I can set it lower which is backwards. I am returning this one and...
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    Incubator temp probe worked for 4 days

    So I have a new Newrall Egg Incubator Digital Fully Automatic Hatcher HHD 56s with a digital temperature control electronic temp probe inside. Well had 56 fertile eggs in the incubator and all was going well for 4 days. At 12:34am the temp alarm was sounding as the temp reading dropped to 9...
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    Mysterious deaths

    Well as of 10 minutes ago I am watching another one dying. Laying in the corner on her side legs bent head moving around. Im about ready to just say the hell with everything.
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    Mysterious deaths

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