ASAP_Honeybee
In the Brooder
- Aug 28, 2025
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Hey guys, I'm so upset with how my mom has been raising her chickens. For some reason with this batch of 8 chicks that hatched this past month, they've been dropping left to right. Now we only have 3 left....
I've recently made a post about this white chick I tried to nurse from coccidiosis but failed, and recently another chick, yellow one with a cocky personality, passed away. She claims bird flu, but I honestly believe it was sour crop seeming how its crop would not go down and it threw up some white sticky fluid. All she did was give it some kind of headache medicine :/. I checked last night and it was okay but later she found it dead in the morning. It's very freaking upsetting.
Like coming back from college has been the worst experience in my life seeing all these chickens die. I want to emotionally distance myself from them but it's hard and sometimes she doesn't want to take care of them or is busy so she makes me do it which makes it even harder for me.
I told her back when the chicks were a week or two old not to let them out as there were rats actively hunting them! I was busy and came home late out of panic for them to see the second oldest gone. I taught those chicks how to jump into their coop so I knew something was wrong. The only one having trouble jumping was the white one as it was significantly weaker than the rest starting around that week of time. I found its freaking body near their house a couple of days later after my mom found and destroyed the rat's nest in a box filled with my damn brother's electronics he left outside.
I'm beginning to suspect that them roaming outside young exposed them to a lot of harmful bacteria and rats that is slowing down their growth and killing them. She claims that letting them out made them grow bigger but in my opinion they're growing at the same rate or even slower with how everytime they get sick they start growing smaller. I've recently watched a short with this man comparing the growth and feather production of a chick and saying how they're not ready to free roam until a month after they hatch.
These babies have been roaming since they were a week old. Too risky, and everyday when they were young I would spend every 10 minutes checking on them just to make sure they were doing okay. I'm so honestly upset. I was hoping that spunky yellow chick would survive but he didn't and I'm just afraid now that none of them will. I'm more annoyed than sad at this point. Ugh.
I've recently made a post about this white chick I tried to nurse from coccidiosis but failed, and recently another chick, yellow one with a cocky personality, passed away. She claims bird flu, but I honestly believe it was sour crop seeming how its crop would not go down and it threw up some white sticky fluid. All she did was give it some kind of headache medicine :/. I checked last night and it was okay but later she found it dead in the morning. It's very freaking upsetting.
Like coming back from college has been the worst experience in my life seeing all these chickens die. I want to emotionally distance myself from them but it's hard and sometimes she doesn't want to take care of them or is busy so she makes me do it which makes it even harder for me.
I told her back when the chicks were a week or two old not to let them out as there were rats actively hunting them! I was busy and came home late out of panic for them to see the second oldest gone. I taught those chicks how to jump into their coop so I knew something was wrong. The only one having trouble jumping was the white one as it was significantly weaker than the rest starting around that week of time. I found its freaking body near their house a couple of days later after my mom found and destroyed the rat's nest in a box filled with my damn brother's electronics he left outside.
I'm beginning to suspect that them roaming outside young exposed them to a lot of harmful bacteria and rats that is slowing down their growth and killing them. She claims that letting them out made them grow bigger but in my opinion they're growing at the same rate or even slower with how everytime they get sick they start growing smaller. I've recently watched a short with this man comparing the growth and feather production of a chick and saying how they're not ready to free roam until a month after they hatch.
These babies have been roaming since they were a week old. Too risky, and everyday when they were young I would spend every 10 minutes checking on them just to make sure they were doing okay. I'm so honestly upset. I was hoping that spunky yellow chick would survive but he didn't and I'm just afraid now that none of them will. I'm more annoyed than sad at this point. Ugh.
Its very unfair to you. Thank you for being a kind soul to these babies. Rats do carry diseases and parasites. Wishing you and the chick the best.
