dead chicks

[Ladyliza]

Two days ago 16 chicks hatched, and one more today.. I cleaned the box i keep them in tonight(have used this same box year after year) and put all the chicks back in and within a half hour they all started dying.. the temperature is right, the food is the same food i refilled their water container.. anyone know what might of happened?

 

[Kiki]

Sorry for your loss.

What is the exact temperature?

 

[Redhead Rae]

Two days ago 16 chicks hatched, and one more today.. I cleaned the box i keep them in tonight(have used this same box year after year) and put all the chicks back in and within a half hour they all started dying.. the temperature is right, the food is the same food i refilled their water container.. anyone know what might of happened?

Did you use cedar chips?

 

[Ladyliza]

Sorry for your loss.

What is the exact temperature?

its 94F

 

[Ladyliza]

Did you use cedar chips?

No, ive always used paper towels until they are older(around a month). Managed to save 4 of them.. and they are in the same box, doing fine.

 

[ronott1]

How long were they in the incubator after hatching?

 

[Jetblack2004]

Very odd. I'm sorry for your losses.

x2 on @ronott1's question.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

I can't impress on everyone how important the diet is for your brood chickens. Many if not most deaths at pipping and soon after are the result of a poor diet in the brood fowl.
This in no way means that your brood fowl are unhealthy but it does mean that your brood fowl did not have enough of the right type of nutrients available to them to both lay and to fertilize an egg that will result in both a healthy and a lively chick.

 

[Kiki]

I can't impress on everyone how important the diet is for your brood chickens. Many if not most deaths at pipping and soon after are the result of a poor diet in the brood fowl.
This in no way means that your brood fowl are unhealthy but it does mean that your brood fowl did not have enough of the right type of nutrients available to them to both lay and to fertilize an egg that will result in both a healthy and a lively chick.

I agree with this!!!
https://catalog.extension.oregonstate.edu/pnw477

one more
http://articles.extension.org/pages/69065/feeding-chickens-for-egg-production

 

[ronott1]

I can't impress on everyone how important the diet is for your brood chickens. Many if not most deaths at pipping and soon after are the result of a poor diet in the brood fowl.
This in no way means that your brood fowl are unhealthy but it does mean that your brood fowl did not have enough of the right type of nutrients available to them to both lay and to fertilize an egg that will result in both a healthy and a lively chick.

Very true!

It is one thing we cannot control with shipped eggs though. For shipped eggs, they need food and water soon after hatching and often some vitamins too