ktm250rider
Hatching
- May 17, 2017
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My neighbor and I are new to raising chickens. We ordered 50 straight run male birds 3 weeks ago. We have had them in a coop, overall size 12 x12 but with the birds sectioned off to an area 7x12. We made it 4-5 days without loosing one and thought we were in the clear.
Since then we seem to loose one very 3 days. Took another dead one out this evening.
We are just north of concord NH and its been cold the past few weeks. We had 2 heat lamps going with temps in that area averaging 95-100. We are using tractor supply shavings for bedding and adding new every day. We currently are not removing, just adding. The coop is setup with feed, water and lights 24hrs.
From our untrained eyes, the birds look healthy. They've fattened up considerably and move about the coop. At first I thought we lost a couple of the weak ones because during the cold nights the birds would all huddle around the lamps. Those weak ones would get trampled and not survive.
Not sure what we are doing wrong.
Since then we seem to loose one very 3 days. Took another dead one out this evening.
We are just north of concord NH and its been cold the past few weeks. We had 2 heat lamps going with temps in that area averaging 95-100. We are using tractor supply shavings for bedding and adding new every day. We currently are not removing, just adding. The coop is setup with feed, water and lights 24hrs.
From our untrained eyes, the birds look healthy. They've fattened up considerably and move about the coop. At first I thought we lost a couple of the weak ones because during the cold nights the birds would all huddle around the lamps. Those weak ones would get trampled and not survive.
Not sure what we are doing wrong.