dead chick

Woke up to two of my 5 week old chicks dead with gaping vents. I am not sure what happened. They are 2 of 15 in a brooder on my porch since the weather is warming up and they aren't needing a heat lamp. They've been on the porch for a little over a week and it's been fine. They get feed and...

Hi, I went out this afternoon and could not find one of my hen’s chicks. she has for six week old chicks but this afternoon, one of them went missing. I tried looking for this afternoon, but it was so windy here, that I couldn’t hear if it was chirping at all, so I waited until this evening...

I bought the Brinsea Ecoglow Safety 600 chick brooder and it arrived yesterday. The heat plate is much hotter than expected. I can't hold my fingers against it for more than a couple of seconds. Touching the plate reminds me of walking barefoot on very hot sand -- you can hardly stand to walk on...

I have 8 eggs that have not hatched and it is day 21. They’ve shown no signs of life, and it smells in there. I’ve hatched 7 chicks so far, one passed after hatching. I decided to check each egg to find the stinker, but none of them smell like they’re rotten. All that I’ve seen says that I’ll...

About a week ago i hatch out some chicks. The last 2 to be born worried me, last couldnt stand and walk and was taken buy someone who is going to try to rehabilitate since it didnt seem to be injury. And the 2nd last bled a bit when she came out of shell. Her navel scabbed over and she was...

One of my hens hatched her first and only chick last week. She adored the little fluffball and had bonded super strongly with it. I asked on a Facebook group whether I should let her raise it, or separate it from her, my ducks, and other chickens. I was told to provide food, and otherwise, let...

I have chicks that are about 2,5 weeks old. They've all been very active and seeming healthy. Then when I went to check on them last night, I noticed one was looking lethargic, breathing quickly and when I held it up, I heard a clicking sound. Fearing it was something contagious I separated it...

Hi all, this afternoon I found one of my 3 week old chicks dead. I noticed last night she was acting a little “off”, wouldn’t lay down with the others and stood on her own sleeping. No fluffed feathers or obvious shortness of breath. Today when I picked her up I noticed her crop was full, and I...

Not sure if this has already been asked but I cant seem to find the answer, or maybe not searching correctly.. My hen just hatched 4 babies and 6 eggs still remained under her but still had a week (+/-) to go. She sat on them a day or two after the four hatched but yesterday I went in and the...

I am new to BYC and dont know if my last post was in the right place, sorry if you are seeing this twice. I will preface by saying that I am really screwed up... I start with the story of what happened and end with my plead for help. We purchased two three week old splash silkie chicks to...

This morning around 7am, I watched a chick hatch. It’s day 22 today, and I thought everything was ok as it was running around. Another chick was shrink wrapped and I was waiting for the pipped eggs to hatch before helping. The shrink wrapped chick is ok now, but the chick that hatched at 7 am...

Hello fellow chicken people ❤️ I have had chickens and guineas of all different breeds for over a year now, and recently started trying to hatch some yard mix birds with a small 7 egg incubator. (Just chickens) My first hatch, 6 of 7 eggs were viable at 15 days before my incubator shorted out...

So.. it's been 30 days since i put those duck eggs in my incubator.. since i've been struggling to keep my temperature at 25.5 C i've tried to do a eggtopsy as i thought that all eggs are dead BUT! when i cracked it it started to move and i was so scared! so i put them back in the incubator...

We had a sad morning. Last night we got to the new house (last there Monday morn) and found that mom and Bitsy (hatched last Fri) were on the bottom level of the small indoor coop we have inside instead of up in the nest box area. I don't know how she made it down the ramp. So I moved the other...

Im really distressed to be honest. Ive never had a chick die on me, and I had no idea that a chick so old could suddenly die?! I need to know why she did though, so her three flockmates can be protected. Yesterday she was a bit sleepy, but i just chalked it up to plain old tired since all the...

Hello all. Well we have a super broady hen. Shes laying on several eggs. She likes to eat the baby chics once theyve pipped through and are half way out.. we dont have an incubator. Weve been checking the eggs every few hours. This morning we checked one was barely chipped and the baby insode...

Updated below... Now, two of our bantams have died in first two days outside. (Original post) Heartbroken..:( last night was our 5 chicks' first night outside. This evening I came home to find our polish bantam dead in the run. The other 4 (3 BOs & 1 bantam brahma) all seem fine. It was just so...

Today while outside I noticed my Royal Palm hen running around with something odd in her mouth...it turned out to be a dead chick! I was horrified and ran over to the nest to find the tom pecking away at a 2nd chick! I started yelling at him and immediately ran into the pen and took the chick...

We had one chicken die we thought possibly from dehydration. Now we don't think that is the problem we have a second chicken dead and are not sure what to do or why. The water appears to be clean they're getting enough food definitely not dehydration need help ASAP

First time chicken raisers and we have an emergency on our hands. This is long because I am trying to give any and all info that could be helpful. Thank you in advance for help! We bought 6 chicks (2 Ameracaunas, 2 silver laced Wyandottes, 2 gold laced wyandottes) 3 days ago from Feed Store A...