Diseases in my flock?

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Apr 5, 2021
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So last night I went to the coop brooder and I was like great 👍 everyone was fine 🙂. Then after I gave them their dinner, I saw tufts of feather fluff under the saw dust. I I un covered it and, A DEAD CHICK! I found another one, and I prayed to God that it wasn't another chick. But no I uncover it and, ANOTHER DEAD CHICK! And same happened to the third. I don't know but am I not feeding enough? or is it a disease? if so the should I quarantine the chicks? (I tend to blame my self for any pet deaths...) (so this is pretty hard on me)
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This is a pretty rude statement to make to someone that came on the forum asking for help. If someone is coming here for help and needs suggestions, maybe that's what they should get and not something like this that makes them feel bad about themselves or their parent.
OP, you were given some good suggestions, so please don't let comments like this turn you away from the forum. Some people need to learn how to hold their tongues or at least think about the other persons feelings before they put things down in writing.
And if this offends anyone, I'm a big girl...I won't be hurt by your words.
Not quite sure it's rude. People have been offering suggestions. Suggestions that aren't taken whether because they're ignored or because of RL issues. Sometimes a visual of the damage really is needed to snap someone out of their bliss to reality
 
Well I have a very old flock, man I don't know hi or old they are, older than a year tho. Anyway, I know that they are old and I wanted a new flock to care for and we didn't know how much we were to get.
that doesn't give you an excuse to mistreat animals I ALSO wish a painless death to all the animals suffering under your care.
 
Be serious. You can’t have 43 chicks in a 1x3 space without them having to stand on each other’s backs. Unless you can provide pics of them, all nice and happy, I refuse to believe they are living happy lives. Or that those lives will be long.
43 chicks in an 1x3?!😦
That's the space for 6 chicks (and just for the first 2-3 weeks)
They need something like 7 times bigger (like 7x3 or better if a bit bigger like 6x4). If they'll stay for more time in the brooder they'll need something like 40-45 sqft, so like a 6x7 or 5x8.
In that box I don't even know how they can walk without trampling the others and how they can reach food and water.
I feel so bad for these chicks
 
They don't suffer I'm working on a new coop, a bigger one and the old one will be a chick brooder
If they're dying from lack of space then yes, they're suffering a lot.
And you should find ASAP a temporary solution to give more space to the chicks, until you build the new coop.
 

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