Hi all. Last wednesday we received 10 bantam silkies from My Pet Chicken. The seemed in good order when we picked them up from the post office. Once home the chicks went into our home made brooder and I took a digital image of them at that time. (I posted it here in this forum). By thursday we saw that two of the chicks were in trouble. We had checked them for "pasting up" on each occasion of cleaning up the brooder. One had some pasting but poo'd after we cleaned it up. By that night both chicks spent more time down than up. They were still down friday and stayed that way until evening when they both died, within a couple of hours of each other.
Friday night I checked the "warrantee and policies" on the MPC website but found none concerning death of chicks. These chicks were pricey as they had been "sexed" to hens, (I believe that MPC is the only company that will send a sexed run of bantams) and cost about about $10 each, but really its not so much the money that bothers us its we were so sorry to see the little things suffer.
I have emailed MPC and left a message on their answering machine. We haven't heard from them yet but will, I expect, on Monday. Now we are watching the 8 remaing chicks and keeping our fingers cross. They are so damed cute.
I took images of the dead chicks but I won't bum you all out with that but here is an image of the others
Friday night I checked the "warrantee and policies" on the MPC website but found none concerning death of chicks. These chicks were pricey as they had been "sexed" to hens, (I believe that MPC is the only company that will send a sexed run of bantams) and cost about about $10 each, but really its not so much the money that bothers us its we were so sorry to see the little things suffer.
I have emailed MPC and left a message on their answering machine. We haven't heard from them yet but will, I expect, on Monday. Now we are watching the 8 remaing chicks and keeping our fingers cross. They are so damed cute.
I took images of the dead chicks but I won't bum you all out with that but here is an image of the others

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