did you find out the problem--I just noticed you had medicated chick starter and mine were dying off until I changed the food to gamebird starter (non-medicated) Not sure if that is the issue but I thought it was mine
Wow!! Thanks so much!!! Luckily since switching the feed...no more deaths...I really think that indeed was the problem or they were weak ones not meant to be! Thanks so much for your help!!
So I have 23 babies and out of the 23 one baby has not grown at all...they are 1.5 weeks old and all bit one have feathers and are larger...by larger I mean three times the size of this little guy...the little one has all yellow feathers...pasty butt at times....eats and drinks water..loves egg...
Called medicated chick starter (for chickens) pasting could have happened due to the fact we saw them picking at their hind ends...few were late hatches (which maybe there was something wrong) not sure...just trying to prevent it from happening again...so far all the remaining chicks look...
All lost at different times on day three...found three at morning...another two in afternoon ..and this went on...finally after I changed food that evening the dying stopped
It was ten total (lost at different times of the say on day three) temp was 95 (digital thermometer) we saw they kind of picked at their backsides and then chirped with no chirps coming out..maybe those were sick with a virus or something?
I hatched quail (Japanese) and am on my second week after hatch...I have them medicated chick feed to start out (from the advice of a quail breeder) they were fine but after day three I started finding them dead....I lost ten of them out of 34...I quickly changed then to game bird starter and...
You should be fine...90 isn't too bad! It's better that it dropped lower than fry them! Check out this link to a real story http://metzerfarms.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-temperatures-kill-in-incubator.html?m=1
I hatched quail (Japanese) and am on my second week after hatch...I have them medicated chick feed to start out (from the advice of a quail breeder) they were fine but after day three I started finding them dead....I lost ten of them out of 34...I quickly changed then to game bird starter and...