The chick is 6 weeks old. He was doing just fine yesterday until this morning when I realized he was only laying down in the brooder not eating or drinking. Where can I take it for a necropsy once it passes? I’m not sure he will make it. Does Coccidia cause a form of paralysis or limpness...
9.6% liquid corid. I’m feeding them 20% chick starter. These chicks have been in a brooder in my room and have been separated from the others outside. They had no contact to the ground and none with the other older chicks that passed from what I think now is also a thiamine deficiency(I was...
I’ve been treating a polish chick for Coccidia and I am noticing a thiamine deficiency. The chick isn’t walking normally and is only laying down and when he does it looks like as if only one leg works. No, he doesn’t have any injury. I’ve seen this happen to a couple of my other chicks that...
There’s no moldy food. I keep the food in the food storage where water can’t get to it. They also only go inside the coop at night and go to the bigger section of the coop during the day. The coop is under my run which is full of shade so the sun doesn’t hit the coop. I haven’t seen them...
With this heat, the ice melts really fast leaving the water mostly cool, but it could definitely be a reason.. The type of coop I have is those small ones from Amazon. I’ll attach a picture. I use it for small chicks and put it in the run with the others so the older ones can get used to them. I...
They’re eating chick started feed 20%. The temperature outside has ranged from 99-102 degrees but they’re in a coop inside my run that has full shade. I haven’t seen them suffer from any sort of heat exhaustion and made sure to cool them down by giving them cold vegetables and putting ice in...
Hi everyone. I’m posting this thread because I would like to gather everyone’s thoughts and opinions about what’s going on with my young chickens. I had five 2 month old chickens and now I’m down to two that have died in a mysterious way. I’m not sure what’s the problem. I clean their coop and...