Am I killing my chicks?

[Sublight]

I have had 3 weak chicks recently. I have been using a eye dropper to "help" them get water.

I raise their beak, and drop 4-6 drops of water on their beak. I cant get one to live.

They were weak either after hatching, or the one just now, it was 3 days old or so. It got weak, and was laying down, so I made it a hospital box, and started water, and a very small amount of crushed food. I had hoped it would give the chick some fuel, and help it live. Within 10 minutes it was dead. The previous ones did not die so fast.

Am I doctoring these chicks wrong?

 

[cmobley]

Sounds like coccidia to me but I'm no expert. Get some corid tsc usually carries it. I'm guessing its not to hot in their brooder?

 

[Devils Flower]

When you first got your chicks you should have introduced them to water asap by dipping there beaks in to there water that has prebiotic and electrolytes in it. Did you do this? How much is the protein % in there food?

 

[Sublight]

Sounds like coccidia to me but I'm no expert. Get some corid tsc usually carries it. I'm guessing its not to hot in their brooder?

Im using a heating plate in the brooder.
They were hatched in a incubator and have never been outside.

The first 2 died hours after hatching.

This is the first one to die after the initial hatch.

They are on medicated feed.

 

[Sublight]

When you first got your chicks you should have introduced them to water asap by dipping there beaks in to there water that has prebiotic and electrolytes in it. Did you do this? How much is the protein % in there food?

I did introduce them to water when I put them in the brooder. There are also chicks that are also chicks from a previous hatch in there that are 3 weeks old. They were all eating and drinking.

Its medicated chick starter by FRM.

 

[cmobley]

Im using a heating plate in the brooder.
They were hatched in a incubator and have never been outside.

The first 2 died hours after hatching.

This is the first one to die after the initial hatch.

They are on medicated feed.

I had some once that was doing the exact same thing dropping left and right. They started doing better after the corid. Also I use a heating plate with brooder/heater on the switch. The brooder option on mine doesn't keep them warm enough I noticed they would huddle up out from under it. If I leave it on heater they stay under the plate.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Are they from your own birds?

It could be poor genetics(Both hen, & Rooster), or poor nutrition of the hen who laid the eggs. What breeds?

 

[Rattee]

Not saying this is a case of drowning, as I’m no expert, but is the waterer too deep for them? I put some stones in my baby quails’ water dish to mitigate this risk. And like someone else mentioned, every time I get new members to my bird family, I always provide them with save-a-chick water to drink for a few days. Can’t hurt, and it’s cheap!

 

[cmobley]

I did introduce them to water when I put them in the brooder. There are also chicks that are also chicks from a previous hatch in there that are 3 weeks old. They were all eating and drinking.

Its medicated chick starter by FRM.

Any way the feed could be moldy i ran into that problem one time to. Just throwing out ideas cause we dunno what kinda environment their in. Is the brooder cleaned out from previous hatches maybe some bacteria left behind these succumb to?

 

[Sublight]

Are they from your own birds?

It could be poor genetics(Both hen, & Rooster), or poor nutrition of the hen who laid the eggs. What breeds?

Yes, it is from my own chickens.

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