Chicks dying

[ryansmom06]

Just wanting opinions on what everyone thinks could be the cause and if there was anything else I could have done.
So I have had 2 sets of Millie chicks die both one was dead when I received them then the others died over next 2 days.
They are at 95 degrees have probiotics and electrolytes in water.
Gave egg yolk and or scrambled eggs. The temps have dropped here to 50s while they were being transported. They were sent out on a Monday and I received them on Wednesday. Help !

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Were they shipped from a hatchery?
What do you mean by sets of chicks? How many were shipped?
Shipped in the appropriate age window can still die.
Are the others healthy?

 

[MROO]

You're not alone. There has been an "epidemic" of shipped chick deaths, this year. I've found the best way to hedge bets is to get electrolytes into them as soon as you have the box in hand. I've been known to sit on the Post Office floor with an open box of chicks in my lap and a clean carrier beside me. Twice now, I've dosed every. single. chick. with a syringe of Pedialyte sugar-water as I transfer them over. My postal crew loved it! Years later, they still bring it up whenever they see me.

 

[Smokerbill]

My first and last shipment of chicks, 13 out of 16 were dead on arrival. Another died a few days later. One needed a lot of care to bring it back to life and it's doing well now. And one was pretty healthy from the box and is also doing well. I got a full refund for the shipment.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

The reality is, it isn't the same USPS of 10 years ago. It was still the gold standard of postal services around the world it had been for over a century. The congress put the first couple nails in the coffin
Hopefully, since Louis Dejoy resigned at the end of March, it will rise from the ashes like the Phoenix.
The slide began in 1970 when postal workers struck because of low wages. The strike ended without any government concessions but led to the President Nixon pushing for the Postal Reorganization Act which removed the Post Office from being a cabinet level office to become an independent agency, the current USPS. Congress then mandated the USPS fully fund its retirement fund, the only agency required to do so. But at the same time, they further handcuffed the agency by limiting the post office to providing the services it has historically performed so they couldn't effectively compete with similar entities diving into more modern services.

 

[ryansmom06]

Were they shipped from a hatchery?
What do you mean by sets of chicks? How many were shipped?
Shipped in the appropriate age window can still die.
Are the others healthy?

2 separate orders of day old chicks from hatchery. Small orders all died.