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    Why do my chickens keep dying???

    Pine shavings from TSC.
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    Why do my chickens keep dying???

    Daytime highs in the 70's and 80's. Nothing too extreme. It's supposed to hit the low 90's later this week.
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    Why do my chickens keep dying???

    I wish it was that simple. They have all different housing conditions, from "store bought" chicken coops like you'd find at Tractor Supply, to a coop that I've built myself from treated lumber (the exact same kind of treated lumber I used for my coop in TN where I experienced very few losses)...
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    Why do my chickens keep dying???

    Our nurses all do 12 hour shifts. I'm a chaplain resident, so we do a 24 hr shift once a week as part of our "hazing". We have a sleep room (which I'm hanging out in right now), so if nobody codes or dies, in theory I get to sleep. But usually I don't sleep well with the duty phone sitting next...
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    Why do my chickens keep dying???

    I didn't loose any birds during the weeks after I wormed them, which surprised me. This all started back up about 3-4 weeks after I wormed with Wazine back in February, so I don't think it was related.
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    Why do my chickens keep dying???

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    Why do my chickens keep dying???

    I don't typically give them the rooster booster vitamins and electrolytes daily, only about 2x per week, same as the probios. I haven't heard that there are antibiotics in the rooster booster vitamins & electrolytes, I'll have to look into that. As far as flock details, that's a bit...
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    Why do my chickens keep dying???

    Our weather here in West Texas tends to be dry, dusty, and windy, but warm, but we usually will get a good hard freeze or two with several inches of snow for a few days in the winter. But this past winter was very mild with nearly no snow to speak of. Imagine Bakersfield with a little bit colder...
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    Why do my chickens keep dying???

    BTW, both of the chickens my daughter is holding in my profile pic? Both dead.
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    Why do my chickens keep dying???

    Well this is discouraging. We started keeping chickens several years ago when we lived in Tennessee, and as a total noob, I almost never lost a bird to something that I couldn't figure out. I even bought way more chicks than I needed thinking, surely I'm going to loose chicks since I have no...
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    Mystery Bantams!

    Interesting. I've seen the opposite before, with chicks like Marans that are supposed to have feathered legs but don't, but never seen chicks have feathered legs that aren't supposed to. First time for everything I guess!
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    Mystery Bantams!

    No. I asked, but they didn't know.
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    Mystery Bantams!

    They're awfully small to be brahma bantams. The one pictured weighs .7 oz according to my digital scale. One of the (suspected) Brahmas weighs .9 oz (and is much fluffier), and the Serama chick I hatched on Monday weighs .4 oz.
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    Mystery Bantams!

    I thought sebrights at first as well, but then I saw.........feathered legs! Yes, the combs look like they'll probably be rose or pea.
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    Mystery Bantams!

    Mystery Bantams! What can I say, I'm a sucker for bantams. I succumbed to temptation at Tractor Supply yesterday and bought a few of their "assorted bantams", halfway out of curiosity about what these little guys are. Anybody got any guesses? I got a few other bigger bantams that I'm pretty...
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