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I actually have no idea. Sorry that I couldn't be of more help.

Wow! This thread is still going! I haven't been on here much in the last several years but this thread is still on the first page. Crazy! I am glad to see that it is still being used, 7 years later. Wow.

Hi, So we have a flock of chickens, about 30 leghorns that are one and two years old and 20 isa browns from this last summer. Recently our leghorns have started dying which I thought was because of old age. But this week seven have died and one of the ise browns. The thing is the other chickens...

I live in Canada so we don't have extension offices. But what I might be able to do is get an autoposie done. I don't know.

I am feeding them 18% broiler grower/finisher. I give them enough so that by the next morning they don't have any left and they are a little hungry. I don't know how many hours. I give them about 4 gallons per 80 chicks and they are 5 1/2 weeks old. The grain I feed is usually not very fine but...

Yup it is alot! Yes I am selling them. We slaughtered them ourselves with some help from some friends. Well my new batch has started dying too. 1-2 a day and heart attacks again. Up till now I have only used our water so I don't think that is the problem. But I am not sure what is. They are in...

Sorry I haven't been replying, I forgot to check the forum. So we butchered the first batch, in the end, at 8 weeks old we had 204 left out of 250. They averaged out at 4.7lb. each which was bigger then last year. I changed the water but I think it was to late because they continued to die. I...

Would this cause the heart attack simptoms that I have been seeing: Upside down when dead, some with bloody vents, blue bodies. We changed the water source today, it has a higher content of sodium, would that cause problems?

I just had a thought. The water I am giving them has a high iron content, could that be causing the heart attacks? That is one difference from the last two years that I have done this, they are at a neighbours place so the water is different.

I am not sure the exact temp here but I don't think it has gone over 24 degrees, not very hot I would say. They have galvalume roofing on top and three sides of the pen, I don't think it is too hot in there also they have not run out of water yet.

It isn't bad for work wise, I have no coops to clean besides the brooder and it doesn't take long to move them. Also I think the pens are cheaper to build then a coop. I don't think they are crowded, they have quite a bit of room. I know they were before I got them into my new pens and that is...

I was just reading through this thread because my birds are doing the exact same thing. They are 5 1/2 weeks old and I have them out on pasture in chicken tractors and about 2 a day are dying. (I have about 230 right now). Like you said they are upside down often when I find them and have...

I have Gold laced Wyandottes, Buff Brahma bantems and Speckled Sussex. Send me a message if you are interested. I might have eggs in the spring.

I no longer have Barred Rocks, Orpingtons, and Dorkings. I have Wyandottes, Brahmas, and Sussex but I am not going to be breeding much next year.