Recent content by Ninabelle5087

Still no answers y'all. My vet also thought it was weird, and could find no obvious cause of death. Sent the one I brought him to Auburn. Idk when they will get back to me.

Waiting on necropsy results. Still too scared to buy new chicks.

It was not the first time, I've used it on multiple groups of chicks.

Ok I feel better then. I was afraid to go to bed. I'm gonna call my vet tmrw and see if he'll send off one of the chicks to the state lab for me, or if he would just do a necropsy. I'm gonna pack them up in the fridge and try to get some sleep y'all. Thank you for all the suggestions, I really...

It's a pretty new bag, kept in the shed where the coop is, and the 8 week old chicks in the coop have been eating it no problem. In the daylight I'll go out and sift through it, but it smells and looks fresh and dry

Ok. The closest one is about three hours away, so I'm gonna call our vet tmrw and see if he'll do one. I have no idea how to mail a dead chick properly.

Exactly, even with the two I had overheat when I was using the heat lamp, only the two right under the lamp were affected. Most of these were just walking around the brooder. Two were under it. A couple were partly under it. And they had all been fine. Trying to figure out what lab to send some...

Temp in brooder about 71, temp under heater about 78, but it hasn't been on long, and most of the heat is on the plate itself. I'm starting to worry there is something in my house, like carbon monoxide, and the chicks were just more sensitive to it. We have smoke detectors, but no CO detectors...

Which one of these is the one I should contact

Glad I haven't buried them already, didn't wanna be out in the dark digging a grave. Lemme look up if we have a state lab close by. I'd really like to know, as I need some new hens, and until I figure out what happened I'm terrified to get any more.

Oh no, I didn't even think of that, how awful

I'm gonna Google and look into that. Maybe it overheated, then had cooled again by the time we noticed????

Rural King's brand of chick starter grower

The 200W setting is the heater setting for use in an entire coop for winter heat. The brooder setting is only 120 volts. I can literally handle it and it just feels warm, like a heating pad. It was on the brooder setting and it was the first thing I checked, I lifted it out to check under it for...

Gonna let it warm back up and check temp under, and the ambient temp again