Chicks dying

[azygous]

Another possibility is neuro-toxin poisoning. Also contaminated water.

Have you brought any paint thinner or insecticide into the coop? What's on the "ground" where these chicks have been? Plain soil? Sand? Wood shavings? What kind - pine or cedar?

Have the chicks been getting treats? Have you supplied grit?

The water supply - is there fracking and gas extraction going on near you that could be affecting water quality? Perhaps humans can survive this kind of contamination, but baby chicks cannot.

 

[ChickenObsession]

Help!
It went from 9 healthy chicks to 4 in two days. They go from standing and running around eating and healthy to dead in hours. No blood in stool but I am treating for coccidiosis anyway. The first day I lost 3 one after the other then yesterday one and today another.. They show no symptoms until they're on the ground actively dying.
Antibiotics next? What now? I'm raising them with a broody but brought her in the house.

How old were they?

 

[ScottKelly1974]

Today another chick died. This one died due to cold. But the other issues could have gotten started by someone else getting too cold wreaking the immune system. That could have been the start of an infection.
I've also seen ammonia toxicity lead to hospitalization with confusing ailments. So this could be a possible reason. Currently I've switched to using two cages. One is for sleeping and the other is for daytime activity. This way they can have a clean cage everyday. Also they get new water twice a day.
At this point I'm just trying to keep the remaining chicks alive.

 

[KentuckyRooster]

Another possibility is neuro-toxin poisoning. Also contaminated water.

Have you brought any paint thinner or insecticide into the coop? What's on the "ground" where these chicks have been? Plain soil? Sand? Wood shavings? What kind - pine or cedar?

Have the chicks been getting treats? Have you supplied grit?

The water supply - is there fracking and gas extraction going on near you that could be affecting water quality? Perhaps humans can survive this kind of contamination, but baby chicks cannot.

We have a well and no fracking.. They were outside in our yard, um.. Cement coop floor w kiln dried pine shavings. They were two days old.
I still have 3 tiny ones plus 2 older ones. They haven't had other symptoms.
I lost a juvenile bird yesterday and he had bloody stools so I'm pretty sure it IS cocci at this point.

 

[KentuckyRooster]

Oh and no treats And I think their feed has grit, but they could have got it outside too.

 

[azygous]

I agree you are probably looking at coccidiosis. There could be a population explosion where you have the chicks on the soil that has overwhelmed their systems. Usually baby chicks are open to developing resistance to these buggers during the first few weeks, but that relies on a normal population of coccidia.

You will need to treat your entire flock while the coccidia run out their life cycle and return to normal levels. It's very important to follow up a week after the first treatment with Corid with another five days of Corid.

 

[KentuckyRooster]

They are recovering now thank god no further losses and I'm treating my outside runs for it and my two micros who were around the juvenile that died. I'm hoping we're over the hump now

 

[wyndham carruth]

if they have worms they die like that. you might want to put some de-wormer in their food and give them small pieces of carrot and onion