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Ugh, it just keeps getting weirder and weirder. The funny eyes are only the bcm chicks and I found out from the lady I got them from that hers are the same way. Now this one is sick. I'm calling it genetic, probably inbreeding. I had a bcm pullet last year that I was sure had mareks but...

Sorry to hear it. I ended up loosing four of that first hatch and I still have a couple of runts that I'm not sure will ever grow up healthy and may cull. Some of the stronger ones have funny saggy eyes that don't look normal as well. I've been researching that and haven't come up with much...

TX, I have no idea about your chick. It's so hard to diagnose chickens, let alone chicks and I do not profess to know much and certainly not enough over the internet to say. I think the ecoglow was not enough heat for them in our drafty old farmhouse and allowed whatever illness to overtake...

UPDATE: I got in touch with our chicken guru at MSU and he says it's likely not cocci but their environment, from what I described to him. He said to ditch the ecoglow and use a heat lamp. Back to my original concern. This is the first time I've used an ecoglow. They've come so highly...

Most of them are growing fast and seem 100% but the two swedish flower hen chicks are falling behind and it has me worried. They still get messy bottoms and spend most of their day under the ecoglow. They're very small for their age. They're all off the corid now, having finished their...

No more have died but I'm still dealing with recurring pasty butts. I was able to get to the store and get them some fresh pine shavings but it was good to be able to see their droppings properly for a couple of days on the pee pads. Some red-tinged droppings were present, too many to be shed...

I started them on the corid yesterday when it was first mentioned. I've lost three chicks since then, the two I had separated and a third found dead this morning. So two black copper marans and a swedish flower hen. They're dropping like flies.

Aspergillosis sounds more likely. The eggs came from two different sources and all the chicks showed respiratory issues about the same time, leading me to believe it was from their environment. The respiratory issue was the first sign and that's when I feared the shavings that I had just added...

Is that something they'd pick up in the incubator?

No, no blood at all.

They're 1 1/2 weeks old. A few days after hatch their breathing started sounding rough, little raspy and gurgly, sneezy. Now I have two that are sick, lethargic, not eating, drinking, etc. One of the two is worse off, found it under the ecoglow this morning, nearly dead. The other is more...