sudden death chick

Late June I purchased eight six week old pullets from a hatchery. Apparently they had been kept in a small dark place and moving them into a big new coop with outdoor run was extremely traumatic. As soon as I approached they would huddle in a corner. Although they remained extremely skittish...

Hello, We ordered 15 Dominiques from Hoovers, 10 female, 5 male. They were hatched June 1st. When checking them this afternoon, I found one of the males dead. There were no signs of a predator; no dropped feathers, apparent wounds, the other chicks were acting normally. All of them, including...

Hello, So about a month ago i got baby chicks, one of them who we called Lulu was always the most lethargic one out of them since the day we got her. I noticed on day 2 that she slept a lot and didn't seem very energetic and she remained this way the majority of her life. A week later she...

I have a 3, almost 4, week old olive egger pullet that just started acting this way today. She wont eat anything i try to offer, not even wet crumble, which she would normally go crazy for. I have to give her water in tiny quantities (like tiny rain drops) otherwise she acts like shes choking...

Hello, I am posting this for my mother-in-law, this was her first time with chickens. I live states away and have my own mixed bunch of girls. I will do my best to give as much detail as I can. She bought 6 chicks from two different farm supply stores. One died with in the first 24 hours for no...

I have a set of growing pullets, between the ages of 4 and 7 months old. Last month I lost one, I found him outside, he was lethargic and “sleepy” but no outward signs of infection. Eyes and nostrils clear, no mites or worms. His symptoms seemed sudden and he died that day. I treated the whole...

So we just got 15 chicks last week. They are one week old today. They are Easter Eggers and this morning we woke to one suddenly dead. They have all been behaving very good all week, eating drinking and we’ve been giving them electrolyte water and they are on organic starter feed with probiotics...