Chicks dying, PLEASE HELP??

[rockinpaints]

I am really sorry to hear about your chicks.

We recommend sugar water for the first few days (no electrolytes) and a good chick starter for our shipped chicks. About a tablespoon in the little quart waterer. After the first couple days if you end up with a weak chick you can give them sugar water in a little eye dropper to boost their energy again (table sugar). The ground up oatmeal is a good idea as well if they are eating. (We provide all our chicks with grogel but it is usually not available locally and would need to be ordered.)

It is very common to get pasty butts with shipped chicks. It is basically caused from their stressfull trip. Yes, they can die from being blocked with the dried poo. Very important to keep butts clean, they will get over it in a couple days to a week. generally.
Good luck with your remaining chicks!
Nellie
TheFancyChick.com

 

[newchickens2009]

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I also do the sugar water for the first few days and I always feed medicated chick starter/grower. Has soon as I can get some oatmeal I will try that as well as they are eatting.
Thank you!

Tim

 

[newchickens2009]

Ha-boy

Another 2 dead today

What do I do?? Is it going to stop or are they all going to die??

 

[newchickens2009]

I've tried everything and they still continue to die. I am now down to just 3 of the W/BW Amerucanas. I have been trying to get this breed for their beauty and their blue egg clouring for so long and now that I finally got them they are dying

. This is so heart breaking it just makes me want to give up on chickens all together. In my 2+ years of raising chickens I have never experienced anything like this. I've hatched over 200 chicks (which I have sold, given away and keep some for myself) sometimes 30+ at a time and have never lost more than 3 from either batch which were mostly chicks that couldn't make it out of the shell themself and I tried to help. I have learned since that if they can't make it themself to let nature take it's course because they just end up dying later. I don't think I will ever order baby chicks again.

 

[chickychicky]

Yogurt helps regulate their digestive systems, and I would definitely keep an eye on their tushys but more importantly, what is coming out of them. Do you notice any blood in their poop? Coccidiosis can run through a flock rapidly killing baby chicks quickly.

Good luck

 

[newchickens2009]

I have tried just about everything. They all seem to have what sounds like to me to be pasty butt. I cleaned them all very good and applied a little cooking oil to their butt has was instructed to do so from advice on here. What happens now is, I check them and they seem to be fine butts clean and eatting and drinking. When I return home nights from work or mornings before I go to work and I check them there is always another one dead who's butt is completly covered with hardned poop. I immeditly remove the dead chick and replace fresh water and feed.

 

[newchickens2009]

Hello everyone,
Just wanted to update and say that the seller I got these chicks from as been talking to me to try and help me save as many as I can and as even offered to replace my losses. How nice is that, you can't get it any better! I would defiently do business with them again

 

[Miss Lydia]

thats great! have you lost all your chicks? I was just reading about putting chick grit in with their food, not alot because thats all they'll eat, but the poster said it would stop pasty butt.

 

[newchickens2009]

Out of 18 I was only able to save 3

 

[Miss Lydia]

Sorry to hear that, but happy to hear they will replace them. I just read that pasty butt is from the stress of shipping, so maybe get some sand or chick grit before the next bunch come and maybe you can avoid this problem. All the best.