Chicks DYING

[shay1335]

Help all our chickens are dying I dont know what to do!!!

 

[al6517]

Did you get them from a hatchery ???

 

[Enchanted Sunrise Farms]

We need a little more information. How old, where did you get them, how are they housed, what are you feeding them, what are the symptoms?

 

[shay1335]

Ok we got them from chickensforbackyards.com adn they were shipped. they have weird head rolling and neck spasms, they keep falling backwards they are all dying the same way!!

 

[shay1335]

they are silkies also

 

[Judy]

Have you called the hatchery?

 

[al6517]

Sounds like mereks and silkies are very suseptable to mereks in hatchery stock, that is why hatcheries offers to immunize them, IMO.

 

[speckledhen]

Silkies are also prone to wry neck/Stargazer's Syndrome. Sometimes, vitamins help, like the liquid children's vitamin, PolyViSol (without iron). A couple drops a day in each beak may help, if that's what is wrong. Call the hatchery immediately and tell them.

 

[shay1335]

Thats the thing tho we paid to get them the shots

 

[shay1335]

Ya we have been using that polyvisol and it helped one but now they are all dying again and we have told the hatchery and they are sending us new ones but its sooo sad we dont want all of these little guys to die!!