Chicks didn't grow!

When mine came down with cocci, I didn't know until i walked into the coop and found one dead. I started looking around and there was bloody poop EVERYWHERE. I don't know how I didn't notice it before. I immediately switched them to medicated feed and put Corid in their water. I didn't have any more die after that, to which I was very surprised and thankful. My friend was over and she kept saying "Let's go check on the chicks." I refused, not wanting to go in there and see who had died next. (I didn't neglect them or anything. I checked on them often enough to know they had feed/water and were okay. I was just so nervous to see who else had died, and she asked ever 10 minutes or something.) They are all healthy free-ranging chickens now. (Well, I take that back. Some of them have fowl pox, but I'm not counting on that killing them.) So if it is Coccidiosis, would recommend medicated feed and Corid. It seems to have kept mine from dying. I was watching them grow weak and poop blood, and they still managed to perk up and survive. If you haven't, check for bloody poop though. Like I said before, it's really hard to miss.

Chicks have something called shed intestinal lining come out in their poop naturally. It looks like bloody poop, but much less severe than coccidia. If it's Cocci, there will be no doubt in your mind that it's Cocci. If it looks like poo with a bit of bloody flesh in it, it's not cocci. If it looks like blood with a little bit of poo in it, it'd probably cocci.
 
When mine came down with cocci, I didn't know until i walked into the coop and found one dead. I started looking around and there was bloody poop EVERYWHERE. I don't know how I didn't notice it before. I immediately switched them to medicated feed and put Corid in their water. I didn't have any more die after that, to which I was very surprised and thankful. My friend was over and she kept saying "Let's go check on the chicks." I refused, not wanting to go in there and see who had died next. (I didn't neglect them or anything. I checked on them often enough to know they had feed/water and were okay. I was just so nervous to see who else had died, and she asked ever 10 minutes or something.) They are all healthy free-ranging chickens now. (Well, I take that back. Some of them have fowl pox, but I'm not counting on that killing them.) So if it is Coccidiosis, would recommend medicated feed and Corid. It seems to have kept mine from dying. I was watching them grow weak and poop blood, and they still managed to perk up and survive. If you haven't, check for bloody poop though. Like I said before, it's really hard to miss.

Chicks have something called shed intestinal lining come out in their poop naturally. It looks like bloody poop, but much less severe than coccidia. If it's Cocci, there will be no doubt in your mind that it's Cocci. If it looks like poo with a bit of bloody flesh in it, it's not cocci. If it looks like blood with a little bit of poo in it, it'd probably cocci.

I had the same experience...lots of dreams of dead chicks and anxiety about checking the coop. I actually made my husband check before he left for work then text me that they were ok before i would go downstaira
 
It's very nerve wracking isn't it? We've worked too hard for them to all die. I'm on edge about my hatch right now. I don't know if I'm going to have any chicks by this evening. The only one to hatch is wrong looking. :\
 
Hi Boonfarm, I had 10 chicks all together. It's not like they got into. Anything. They were confined. There were other chicks that died but they acted sick and listless. That's why I started the medicated chick starter. the question is they did not grow for the 5 weeks. Also they never acted sick, the next morning they were shockingly dead. I'd like to add more but the ones I have are quite big. Will they fair well with older chicks?(about 9 weeks old)

Unless you will be getting chicks already started and are close to that age, i would not mix them. if you are getting much younger chicks, you will have to keep them separate. Your 9 week old chickens have already established a pecking order. Chickens won't "go easy" on another chick just because its much younger, its going to receive the same peck "strength" regardless of its age (does that make sense?).

Visit a thread about mixing different age flocks on BYC.

Just today I tried get a little social action between my two flocks and one of my sweetest hens pick up one of my much younger chicks and tossed it. It shocked me!
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