Hello everyone. I usually raise a few broilers every couple months for meat and have been experiencing roughly 5% losses as chicks which is normal from what I've read. Recently the losses have been getting greater and greater, sometimes as much as 40% and it happens when the chicks are 3+ weeks old when they should be supposedly more resistant to diseases.
I will notice the chickens have slowed movements and tend to distance themselves from the others hardly eating or drinking. Within a day or 2 after noticing this, they are dead. I sometimes notice a wing that might be swollen and blueish/purple. I have attached images of one of the chickens with one normal wing and one swollen one. Anyone have any idea what's causing this and what I can do about it?
I will notice the chickens have slowed movements and tend to distance themselves from the others hardly eating or drinking. Within a day or 2 after noticing this, they are dead. I sometimes notice a wing that might be swollen and blueish/purple. I have attached images of one of the chickens with one normal wing and one swollen one. Anyone have any idea what's causing this and what I can do about it?
