Thanks. I appreciate it. I'm not new and this year has been different then all my previous years. I've never experienced this many losses. It is very hard. Usually chicks are very strong and if you do experience a loss it's only one or two. Not such a large portion of them. At least in my...
Thanks. I just went in to change water and another one was dead. This is insane. I've been brooding chicks and keeping layers for almost 7 years. I am not new to chicken keeping. I read somewhere that stress and trauma from shipping can cause deaths up to seven days later? Everytime I observe...
I think probably the difference in our experience is 1- hatch time- mine was this week in March, yours was June- much warmer- 2 you ordered 4 chicks, lots of space, I ordered 47 so there was probably quite a bit of trampling one another - it's 4 days post delivery and the death count is 12. I am...
I am in middle Tennessee. I ordered chicks from Meyers and they came in this week. It hasn't been a delightful experience. We are still experiencing deaths. I didn't think about length of shipping times before I ordered. Now I'm thinking I should of researched more and found a hatchery closer to...