Chick mortality statistics

[Bird Brain]

Just wondering what kind of luck other people have when it comes to their babies. Bout a month ago, bout 5 day old BBB Turkey Babies and lost one within three days (It was sorta sickly looking to my untrained eye, sat on his haunches a bit). Week and a half ago I bought an assortment of chicks from a lady on the board, and have lost three so far (one tophat within two days, a cocoo maran I never saw coming, and a tophat of the same color yesterday that I worked with for about 18 hours to save, not growing and cheeping all the time them BAM, sick little bugger) . Mathematically compared I suppose I shouldn't be concerned, Im running the same stats on both batches (1/6=.1667 & 3/16=.1875).

My question is....
Does everyone else loose 16% of their babies?
Im just wondering if its beginners bad luck or if maybe I was doing something wrong.

 

[R@ndy]

knock on wood, I bought 20 chicks almost 4 weeks ago and haven't lost any yet.

What do you feed them and where do you keep them?

 

[DiVon80]

Hi! So far I bought 26(Ideal)and 2 months later I still have 26. Have a batch of bantams comming will let you know about them. I feed mine purina(game). It has food for all stages of life. Lots of healthy treats.

 

[aidenbaby]

I think it varies batch to batch. I've heard some people that will lose almost every bird one time and none the next.

 

[BRYAN662]

i just got a shippment in thursday of batams and heavy breeds. i have them all together. 45 total i have lost 7 so far not very good stats. may be i sould have keep them separate.

 

[Bird Brain]

In my house since about the second day, it was getting to warm in the building and it was way to early to cook these chicks. They are on Dumor starter. I dont know if the 2 polish maybe had something wrong with them to begin with. The second one just didnt seem to grow at all.