They are all still eating and drinking and they are kind of flying at each other, I assume determining pecking order or stress. None have appeared to be lifeless so to say. They even are probably sleeping less than they were, I assume just getting older they gradually sleep less?
It sounds like normal behavior to me. I very much doubt it is Coccidiosis. The typical life cycle for the Coccidiosis issues is that they are exposed to the protozoa that causes it. If they are in a wet environment the protozoa starts multiplying as the "eggs" come out the rear end and into that wet environment, where they mature. When the chicks eat the bedding or drink water that has poop in it (the protozoa eat the poop to grow) the numbers build up to a dangerous level. Some protozoa in their system is a good thing as long as the numbers don't get real high, they develop an immunity to it in two to three weeks. Some strains of the protozoa are stronger than others, sometimes you can have issues even if the brooder is fairly dry and you change the water often. But just because something is possible doesn't mean it is likely. I can't tell how clean your water is or how dry your coop is.
Thanks- after like a full day of reducing their heat to 85° at the hottest spot (if you saw the picture of the set up the hottest spot for a while was still 95° but we figured they’d get out of it if they were too hot) their stool started to harden back up. Hopefully it was that they were too warm.
No need really, it was the excessive heat that was the problem.
You think so even though they had room to get out of the heat?
That's an awfully small container for such a powerful lamp.
