Hi everyone, We ordered cornish cross meat chicks about a week ago and in general through their
7-8 weeks before processing we generally lose about 5% of the chickens. This order we lost 18 chicks out of 60 in about 24 hours. 18!!!!!!!!! We have never had that happen before has anyone else...
I have a Cornish cross meat chick (about 4 days old), which since this morning has been hopping around on one foot. It can move it's other leg but it holds it out to the side a little bit and puts most of its weight on its other foot. The chicks legs appear to be pretty normal as do its feet...
We got about 6 inches of rain last night and our 5 week old meat birds (are in a chicken tractor) were cold and wet for about 6 hours. It was about 55 degrees outside. We put some hay down for them to lay in and moved there 2 heat lamps lower. Is there anything else that you would recommend...