Chicharron
In the Brooder
- Jun 14, 2023
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Here is a video link so you can see what I mean: https://vimeo.com/1024119037?share=copy#t=0
So I posted a few days ago about suspected fowl pox in my baby chicks. Nearly all of them have scabs over their eyes and around their beaks. Yesterday I lost 3, found 3 more dead this morning. Despite the scabs on their faces, they eat, drink, and play up until a few hours before death. Then just stand still and a few hours later are dead.
Now I have several doing what the chick in the video shows. Stretching out their necks, mouth open, as if trying to swallow something stuck. This one makes a clicking noise every time it pulls out its neck. It has been doing this since last night. I felt around their crops and don't feel anything weird, except they seem pretty empty. Vents look fine, although some of them are pooping forest green poo.
They are kept in a brooder out in my coop on large pine shavings, brooder plate for heat, fed chick crumbles only. There's nothing else in the brooder they could choke on. I let them outside on the dirt for a few hours a day.
I have tried giving Nutri Drench and baby vitamins to the sick ones, no improvement, still dead within hours. I don't know what more I can do. There are no chicken vets around. Is this related to fowl pox? Something else? Please offer any suggestions, if I don't do something I think another 3 will be dead by tonight!
So I posted a few days ago about suspected fowl pox in my baby chicks. Nearly all of them have scabs over their eyes and around their beaks. Yesterday I lost 3, found 3 more dead this morning. Despite the scabs on their faces, they eat, drink, and play up until a few hours before death. Then just stand still and a few hours later are dead.
Now I have several doing what the chick in the video shows. Stretching out their necks, mouth open, as if trying to swallow something stuck. This one makes a clicking noise every time it pulls out its neck. It has been doing this since last night. I felt around their crops and don't feel anything weird, except they seem pretty empty. Vents look fine, although some of them are pooping forest green poo.
They are kept in a brooder out in my coop on large pine shavings, brooder plate for heat, fed chick crumbles only. There's nothing else in the brooder they could choke on. I let them outside on the dirt for a few hours a day.
I have tried giving Nutri Drench and baby vitamins to the sick ones, no improvement, still dead within hours. I don't know what more I can do. There are no chicken vets around. Is this related to fowl pox? Something else? Please offer any suggestions, if I don't do something I think another 3 will be dead by tonight!