3 chicks dead from ants :(

[Rose Quartz]

Welp google tells me it's 23 °C here at 3 AM. I think that's not enough for them ..

at 5 weeks that should be fine. My chicks this year have been off heat at 4 weeks, and our over night temps this summer were going down to 10C to 16C.

If it's possible you should move your brooder and do what you can to keep the ants out. It's not gonna be easy, since you have to have some kind of ventilation but moving the brooder at least should help for a while.

 

[Chickenlover106]

Those pesky ants bit him

 

[BlueBaby]

I would try to locate the ant hill itself also, and spay some Permethrin 10 around the hole that they are going into, and then completely saturate the hole itself. You can find the anthill by following the line of ant's that are going back to the hill to bring the food back there.

 

[Chickenlover106]

Okay will do. I'm just worried he might not survive. How often should I force feed him some water?

 

[Gramma Chick]

Okay will do. I'm just worried he might not survive. How often should I force feed him some water?

poor baby ...i would bring him / her? inside the house. let the baby sleep for the night ..in the morning give it some sugar water ...if it survives. Maybe it will be a house chicken ?

 

[Chickenlover106]

He's now drinking water on his own, but he still doesn't want to eat.