Baby Chicks making me sick?

[AmyLynn2374]

I've got it back!!! I feel so much better. It's crazy how all that dust/dander made me feel. It was as if I had the flu. The babies are doing fine and growing like crazy. I'm having so much fun with them!! I still have 13 eggs in the bator. They are all blue and green, so it's very hard to see inside them when candling. However, they were shipped, and most of them have saddle shaped air cells. I'm doing it totally dry this time. My DH has been taking care of our flocks, and it seems my RIR rooster has gotten much more aggressive, while I haven't been out there much. Lol I'm gonna have to have a talk with him!! Thank you all for your comments and well wishes!! I'm sure I'll be seeing you around again on BYC!

Glad to hear that you are feeling better!!! Let us know how this second hatch goes.

 

[Christin]

Ty all for posting such informational stuff. I was thinking about starting to brood my chicks, ducklings, and poults in my living room rather than in my carport where it is very drafty and cold despite the fact that my DH has begun to close it in for a workshop. I am very glad I found this before I set up my brooder so I do not get my kids sick! Ty Ty Ty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[lazy gardener]

Chicks definitely need to be away from human habitation. They are a menace to the lungs! After brooding my first batch in the basement, I vowed that I'd never brood in the house again. The next batch was in the garage, under the bedroom end of our raised ranch. Still not good, but much better! Every day, I'd open the overhead door and set up a big fan to blow the dust out of the garage. This year, I think I'm golden. I have a 4 x 8 loft coop that they'll go in.

 

[Christin]

That sounds comfy!

 

[StephensonC]

Glad to hear that you are feeling better!!! Let us know how this second hatch goes.

I only ended up with these 2 cuties! All other 11 eggs never even developed. I'm chalking that up to them being shipped and/or non-fertile. I can't believe these 2 made it.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I only ended up with these 2 cuties! All other 11 eggs never even developed. I'm chalking that up to them being shipped and/or non-fertile. I can't believe these 2 made it.

They sure are adorable!

 

[member 158781]

Don't want to scare you. That said: Get your but to the doctor!!!!
This sounds indeed like pigeon lung disease. It can have big consequences. Get it treated asap.
Ellen.

 

[1953Bella]

3riverschick...and StephensonC,
Thank you so much for educating me , a relative "newbie"...I too raised five chicks in my bedroom a few years ago. I was so tired from lack of sleep due to the constant heat light for the chicks. My husband made a nice wooden nursery for the chicks. I relived in part what StephensonC went through. Not so much the same illness but more allergies than anything. And the constant clean up was exhausting. I will never raise chicks in the house again. We have a nice garage that will serve nicely if I dicide to get a few more. Thank you again for the education. And thank you to StephensonC for bringing the subject up. Love my girls too. 1953Bella.

 

[kilby]

Glad you are well again. I hope you like your new black breed rooster. What are those cuties suppose to be I wonder?

 

[vivi]

Many things are possible. Begin eliminating things, one by one, leaving 12 - 24 hours between subtracted things. I, too provided electrolyte powder to my chickie, 24/7, in a warm box at the end of my bed for 2 months. I fed the orphan canned dog food (protein) as he is 1/2 aracauna 1/2 meat bird. I also care for 4 hens, yard birds, one was a "drop-off" rescue, so raking poop for free-ranging yard birds on 3/4 acre is constant too. Dog undercoat fur does it to me. So do cats, anything about cats, smell, anything. I believe my yuck is mostly psychosomatic though. When we outgrow or accomplish some things, we become intolerant to them. I love most all living things but they have their own place in time and space. My chickie now has a huge, clear tub in the back. He has a very high body temperature now, just not enough feathers to be outside yet, in an orchard hay lined, stuffed hen house. The hens are mean to him too. He began to bite last week. I'm scared of him now. I use my "snake bite preventer ankle covers" over my hands and arms when I have to rescue him or bring him in for the night. Next week, if the weather holds he's going to move outside. Somewhere I have a couple of pictures and notes on the site I wish I could offer you better words about my own personal experience with chickens (yardbirds) and birds in general I love birds. The other person who replied did have a point though they have a great deal of cuticle shedding going on. Perhaps the best suggestion is to find an area outside of your personal space (to which I will add I'm not much of a dog person either but I got a dog that lived in the living room on a really big bed. I had a episode and went unconscious and she laid by me on the floor for about 13 hours after which she is not left my side even if it's on cold floor so I had to move her bed in my bedroom). I'm really not one to give advice but I can relate my personal experience. I find your disclosure to be informative and these are the things that when people share they become informed themselves. Smiles4Miles