Dying Chicks-Please help

[AUChickenGal]

Some coworkers and I went in together on an order from McMurray for the second time this year (last fall everything went perfectly). Last week, the chicks shipped on Monday afternoon and didn't arrive until Friday morning - 22 out of 40 died. McMurray agreed to ship a replacement order this week. Once again, the chicks were shipped out on Monday afternoon. The post office called about an hour ago and said the chicks had just arrived and could be picked up first thing tomorrow morning. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that more of them survived this time around, but we'll see.

 

[Kiki]

Some coworkers and I went in together on an order from McMurray for the second time this year (last fall everything went perfectly). Last week, the chicks shipped on Monday afternoon and didn't arrive until Friday morning - 22 out of 40 died. McMurray agreed to ship a replacement order this week. Once again, the chicks were shipped out on Monday afternoon. The post office called about an hour ago and said the chicks had just arrived and could be picked up first thing tomorrow morning. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that more of them survived this time around, but we'll see.

Wow that is a LONG trip for them little babies!
I freak out when mine are shipped on a wed and I pick them up thursday!
Good luck

 

[AUChickenGal]

Wow that is a LONG trip for them little babies!
I freak out when mine are shipped on a wed and I pick them up thursday!
Good luck

No kidding! It took the poor things two days to get from Atlanta to our local post office - and it's only a 2.5 hour drive...We have not been pleased with the USPS routing system during all this. Thanks for the good wishes; we'll see how this turns out tomorrow.

 

[royalducky101]

I need some help!!! yesterday I got 15 chicks from our feed store this morning 1 was dead now this evening 2 more has died 3 more are sick just laying around
The others are acting fine any help would be great i also got chicks last year and they did the same thing and all died they are not cold not hot. Someone told me I'm supposed to put electrolyte in there water but I have not could this be why?

 

[Kiki]

I need some help!!! yesterday I got 15 chicks from our feed store this morning 1 was dead now this evening 2 more has died 3 more are sick just laying around
The others are acting fine any help would be great i also got chicks last year and they did the same thing and all died they are not cold not hot. Someone told me I'm supposed to put electrolyte in there water but I have not could this be why?

Electrolytes would most likely help.
Are they eating and drinking?

 

[royalducky101]

Yes eating and drinking until there start getting sick just laying around and then about 5-8 hours later they die
What do i need to put in there water ?

 

[Kiki]

http://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/poultry-nutri-drench-4-oz

http://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/sav-a-chick-electrolyte-vitamin-supplement-017-oz-pack-of-3

here are two versions
see what your feed store carries.

do they have poopy butts?

 

[Kiki]

Anyone have a homemade recipe for roy??

 

[3riverschick]

So I have hatched and raised dozens of barn yard mixes and they always did so well.

Well I've decided to get purebred Polish from a hatchery. Last week I had 25 shipped that arrived on my birthday....all dead. I was devastated. I called the hatchery crying and they apologized and sent a new shipment this week.

So 4am this morning, my postal office called and I picked up my babies and only one was dead. I ran them home, gave them each a couple drops of Nutri-Drench, showed them their water and went to work (I was 2 hours late but they were worth it). I have them in a brooder with paper towels as the bedding, one side of the brooder is 95 degrees, the other cools down to about 80 degrees.

I came home from work and 3 more chicks were dead and 3 were very weak. I separated the 3 weak ones since the others were trampling them. Syringe fed them Nutri-Dench water mixture and kept them warm. The others seemed very hyper but I made sure to reintroduce water in case they had forgotten.

Then 1 of the 3 weaklings spazed for a few seconds, stretched out and died. The other two aren't showing any improvement.

Now 2 more seem weak, or just sleepy, I don't know, I'm just so fearful of losing anymore. I never had this problem when hatching my own.

What is causing them to die and how can I help? I am an emotional mess right now!

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I don't know what is killing them. If it were me, I would dispatch the rest and disinfect everything. Ask for a refund from that hatchery and order from somewhere else. And hope, hope, whatever was wrong with them hasn't spread to your other birds or corrupted your buildings or property.
Best,
Karen

 

[royalducky101]

No they are clean I will try and see if that helps thanks!!!