ValerieLovesChickens
Songster
Where to start... this wholeraising chickens thing has turned into a nightmare the past month....
1. My outdoor flock came down with fowlpox, within a few days of my incubated eggs hatching.
2. We had incubator issues with high humidity on dry incubation, still air, lowest it went was 48%.
3. We had 3 quitters, 13 hatched, one had to be put down due to breathing and crop issues, as he was withering away, didn't want him to suffer after 72 hours of trying everyrhing.
4. Have 2 chicks I have tried to correct splayed legs and curled toes to no avail, and need to cull tomorrow.
5. In the past 24 hours, 1 chick either dislocated or splayed her leg, separated her from the other chicks in a new location and gave her 1 calm friend. Now tonight the chick I put with her for company also has a splayed leg. Went and checked each chick thoroughly in the main brooder, and it looks as though yet another chick is slowly developing a splayed leg as well.
Can anyone please help me?!?! I am at my wit's ends and ready to just cry. This was not supposed to be so doggone hard. I am worried just about sick over all these pullets and new chicks. I have no idea what is going on or what to do. I feel like all I'm doing is constantly tending to sick or hurt chickens and chicks. Thank God I'm a homemaker, I have no idea how I would deal with this all, if i had a full time job outside of our home. Please someone, anyone help? Am I doing something wrong? Is this an illness or disease? Could this be Mareks or related to the fowlpox in my birds outside? We have been so careful, even changing clothes in the mudroom. *tears*
1. My outdoor flock came down with fowlpox, within a few days of my incubated eggs hatching.
2. We had incubator issues with high humidity on dry incubation, still air, lowest it went was 48%.
3. We had 3 quitters, 13 hatched, one had to be put down due to breathing and crop issues, as he was withering away, didn't want him to suffer after 72 hours of trying everyrhing.
4. Have 2 chicks I have tried to correct splayed legs and curled toes to no avail, and need to cull tomorrow.
5. In the past 24 hours, 1 chick either dislocated or splayed her leg, separated her from the other chicks in a new location and gave her 1 calm friend. Now tonight the chick I put with her for company also has a splayed leg. Went and checked each chick thoroughly in the main brooder, and it looks as though yet another chick is slowly developing a splayed leg as well.
Can anyone please help me?!?! I am at my wit's ends and ready to just cry. This was not supposed to be so doggone hard. I am worried just about sick over all these pullets and new chicks. I have no idea what is going on or what to do. I feel like all I'm doing is constantly tending to sick or hurt chickens and chicks. Thank God I'm a homemaker, I have no idea how I would deal with this all, if i had a full time job outside of our home. Please someone, anyone help? Am I doing something wrong? Is this an illness or disease? Could this be Mareks or related to the fowlpox in my birds outside? We have been so careful, even changing clothes in the mudroom. *tears*
