Hey All, So here's the scoop:
I got some day-old chicks from McMurray. Raised them in an incubator for 7 weeks. Let them out on pasture 3 weeks ago. They've been doing great, looking fine - running, pecking, peeping, the whole thing.
None of them have droopy or puffed up looks to them.
There is no bloody poop anywhere.
Their eyes look fine.
Their feed consists of table scraps (berries, grains, limited meats, etc.), a cup of chicken feed a day, and pasture.
They are in an electric net, 75' per side, and enclosed with 3 lambs as well, moved every 2 weeks. They've been in the current one for exactly a week now. It is about 50' from where they were the last two weeks.
Since last Saturday, 5 have died.
3 were RI Reds, one was a black Australorp or Giant (can't tell em apart), and one was the bonus chick rooster, no idea what breed.
I have been trying to figure this out, since each issue could be isolated and unrelated. The first may or may not have been trampled in a chicken ball when I opened the coop last Saturday. The second may or may not have eaten some fruit soaked in alcohol. Two the other day slept under the coop (instead of in it like the rest) and may or may not have died of hypothermia (It's 60 degrees and raining heavily). The one from this morning is a mystery - dead in the coop.
I fed extra yesterday, including ACV in the water and DE and minerals in the food.
Any ideas on what's going on here? Anything else I may have left out?
I can't handle losing more.
Thanks
I got some day-old chicks from McMurray. Raised them in an incubator for 7 weeks. Let them out on pasture 3 weeks ago. They've been doing great, looking fine - running, pecking, peeping, the whole thing.
None of them have droopy or puffed up looks to them.
There is no bloody poop anywhere.
Their eyes look fine.
Their feed consists of table scraps (berries, grains, limited meats, etc.), a cup of chicken feed a day, and pasture.
They are in an electric net, 75' per side, and enclosed with 3 lambs as well, moved every 2 weeks. They've been in the current one for exactly a week now. It is about 50' from where they were the last two weeks.
Since last Saturday, 5 have died.
3 were RI Reds, one was a black Australorp or Giant (can't tell em apart), and one was the bonus chick rooster, no idea what breed.
I have been trying to figure this out, since each issue could be isolated and unrelated. The first may or may not have been trampled in a chicken ball when I opened the coop last Saturday. The second may or may not have eaten some fruit soaked in alcohol. Two the other day slept under the coop (instead of in it like the rest) and may or may not have died of hypothermia (It's 60 degrees and raining heavily). The one from this morning is a mystery - dead in the coop.
I fed extra yesterday, including ACV in the water and DE and minerals in the food.
Any ideas on what's going on here? Anything else I may have left out?
I can't handle losing more.

Thanks