Hi everyone! Haven’t been on here in a while! I guess that’s a good thing considering that I haven’t been having too many issues.
So,
I went out of town and came back today and one of my chickens were dead, and had been for a few days. I had a chicken of the same brood of chicks die about 4...
Yes! They are doing fine! I am still keeping them in the dog kennel though, because we began to get a huge abnormal snow storm and all of the hardware stores have been closed, keeping me from buying a heat bulb. I have been letting them out during the day a bit so they can stretch.
He is now, I’ve been giving him (and the others) water and a little bowl of Gatorade for electrolytes, they have all seemed to perk up, but still seem sort of sick. They are all 8 months. I’ll try the yogurt tomorrow! Okay!
I was not able to find my heat bulb, so I brought them all inside for...
I fed all of the roosters some food, and gave them some electrolytes, they are much perkier now, so I’m thinking it was the cold, but the rooster with the worst symptoms is now having a lot of brown diarrhea.
Yeah! Well I had a hatched chick (Barred rock) die of paralysis last year, but I think it was from vitamin deficiency, not Mereks. Okay, I’ll work on that, we barely get cold weather like this, it was between 40F-75F all December.
Huh, he is kind of losening up since I brought him in, but he still is in kind of a paralysis. None of my large chickens are acting this way, only my bantam roos and he’s the worst of them. Hopefully it’s just that
hi! I have a Golden Laced Sebright Rooster and he’s very abnormal and neurotic. Today is the coldest day we’ve had, I don’t know if that has had anything to do with it, but he wasn’t acting weird at all until this morning, my two other bantam roosters are acting similar but aren’t as bad. He...
Okay! Thanks! I have noticed they have lost weight. The only reason this has bothered me is because my hens usually go through molting and he lighting transition very quickly, and this year it is a lot slower
I don’t use lights either anymore , because I think that the hens could become too reliant on the artificial heat, and would panic if the bulb were to go out in the middle of a cold night, or they would be thrown off by the natural light timing.