so, i’m back on here again…recently a lot of our baby chicks have been going missing and even some have been killed, but we don’t know what is taking them/killing them? We found one of our baby chicks with it’s head cut off and the rest of the body laying there. Then, one baby chick went missing...
I don’t know if it’s just bad luck, but recently two of our hens had chicks, one had 9 and the other had 8. A few days ago, the only bright yellow chick died, and the others didn’t. Today, the other hen’s bright yellow chick died as well, when a few hours ago it seemed just fine. This happens...
We had a hen go broody on 6 eggs. We decided to let her hatch them. We are new to the chicken world. Our girls are a year & a half old.
First chick got out the shell but a nickle sized piece stuck on her back (mama got it off).
She lived two days. We weren't sure wheather to take her innside...
We purchased 14 chicks and all has been going well, all the chickens are 3 weeks old and were active, eating and drinking. No signs of any problems, at 3 weeks the brooder temperature was 85 degrees. Yesterday we went to check on them and all 14 had died. Our brooder is in the house so they are...
i just had my 3rd baby chick die in only 6 days & i don’t know what to do. i have 2 other sick/slow ones that i’ve sequestered & i’m concerned about.
background: ordered 28 from murray mcmurray & 4 were dead in the box. we got the other 24 settled in the brooder & they looked good-drinking...