Dead quail

[Tenesexx]

This morning I woke up to one of my chicks dead laying under the brooder i have no clue to how it died could anyone have ideas

 

[Tenesexx]

This morning I woke up to one of my chicks dead laying under the brooder i have no clue to how it died could anyone have ideas

And anyhting I can do preventing my baby chicks from dying

 

[Nabiki]

Chicks are really good at committing suicide. I've had a very low suicide rate, fortunately. Here are the things that I've learned from the people here and from my own experience.

• Make sure they don't have any way out of the brooder or places they could get stuck in inside the brooder.
• Put pebbles or marbles in their waterer if it's big enough for them to get into. They'll drown or get wet and die of cold.
• Make sure they have a warm spot and a cool spot in the brooder so they can find a comfortable temperature for themselves.
• Check on them often. I saved a chick that managed to get soaked my last batch.

I hope this helps.

 

[Tenesexx]

Chicks are really good at committing suicide. I've had a very low suicide rate, fortunately. Here are the things that I've learned from the people here and from my own experience.

• Make sure they don't have any way out of the brooder or places they could get stuck in inside the brooder.
• Put pebbles or marbles in their waterer if it's big enough for them to get into. They'll drown or get wet and die of cold.
• Make sure they have a warm spot and a cool spot in the brooder so they can find a comfortable temperature for themselves.
• Check on them often. I saved a chick that managed to get soaked my last batch.

I hope this helps.

That's all checked I feel like it was temperature I use a lamp ,(with watt of 60)and a brooder ,on top of the brooder its 38.5 degrees where they usually like being and under the brooder its 30 degrees some sleep on top some next to the food and some under the brooder where I found my dead I fill their water everyday and food what could've gone wrong?

 

[Tenesexx]

That's all checked I feel like it was temperature I use a lamp ,(with watt of 60)and a brooder ,on top of the brooder its 38.5 degrees where they usually like being and under the brooder its 30 degrees some sleep on top some next to the food and some under the brooder where I found my dead I fill their water everyday and food what could've gone wrong? View attachment 2054994View attachment 2054995

Right now two sleeping on top two sleeping away from lamp and brooder some in between and rest under brooder

 

[Celeste Cannon]

I'm not quite sure, but you might want to check their behavior regarding temperature. If the chicks are all spread out, staying still and panting, they are too hot. If they are all huddled together under the heat source they are too cold. If you notice either of these adjust the temperature as needed. Sometimes chicks can wonder from the heat source and die, so try and have heat source mostly all around the habitat. Good luck!

 

[Nabiki]

I don't have a lot of experience with the brooder like you have (I use a reptile heat lamp), but the chick might have gotten under there and over heated, or it might just have failed to thrive. My concern with your brooder set up is that it's open sided. That doesn't hold warmth very well. I use large plastic tubs with part of it blocked off for the first couple of days so they don't wander too far from the warmth and die of cold (Yes, they'll do that).

This is my large brooder:

And my huge brooder:

 

[Tenesexx]

I don't have a lot of experience with the brooder like you have (I use a reptile heat lamp), but the chick might have gotten under there and over heated, or it might just have failed to thrive. My concern with your brooder set up is that it's open sided. That doesn't hold warmth very well. I use large plastic tubs with part of it blocked off for the first couple of days so they don't wander too far from the warmth and die of cold (Yes, they'll do that).

This is my large brooder:

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And my huge brooder:

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They are a week old they seems to sleep anywhere people told me to keep them in this type of cage theres so much that could've gone wrong but I feel like it was to warm maybe that's why it died under the brooder shpuld I reduce the lamp to 40 watts instead of 60? Then next week stop the lamp forever to get adjusted to cold temperatures and only leave the heat plate?

 

[Nabiki]

They are a week old they seems to sleep anywhere people told me to keep them in this type of cage theres so much that could've gone wrong but I feel like it was to warm maybe that's why it died under the brooder shpuld I reduce the lamp to 40 watts instead of 60? Then next week stop the lamp forever to get adjusted to cold temperatures and only leave the heat plate?

Do you have a thermometer? Preferably two. Keep one in the warm end of the brooder and one in the cool end. At two weeks, they should be able to go without a lot of heat. I would probably have them at about 80 degrees farenheit at the warm end and room temperature at the cool end. If your room temperature is over 70, you might even consider removing heat entirely at this point.

I start mine off at 95-100 degrees at the warm end for the first few days then start lowering the temperature. By 3 weeks they're at room temperature, by 4-6 weeks they're outside (depending on temps).

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

They can also brain themselves by slamming their heads into things trying to fly. I've lost a peachick and a quail and a turkey poult that have done it...