HELP!! Chicks dying fast!

[Blooie]

Agree.....they may well be too warm.

 

[mustang56]

they are too hot.... should be no higher than 99 degrees...
need cool area also.... they are too hot...

 

[mustang56]

move the heat lamp higher

 

[Cntry1958]

Adjust your heat lamp till the temperature reads 90 degrees on a thermometer when you lay it directly in the bottom of the brooder. Temp should not change in a 2 hour period. Keep raising the lamp until the temp is correct. But keep checking temp for them 2 hours every 10 minutes or so to make sure the temperature is not climbing higher. You need a large enough area that the chick can escape the heated area if they get to warm. Move the water and food closer to the middle of the brooder so the chicks can get to it. You may want to give the chicks also some electrolytes to help them. Boil a quart of water mix in 1/2 cup of sugar, 2 teaspoons of baking soda and let it cool. You may have to use your fingers and put a drop of water on its beak a few times every hour or so till its eating and drinking on its own. Also mashed up egg yoke, just a tiny bit at a time.
Once temps are corrected and everything is ok drop temps by 5 degrees each week.

 

[Kiki]

At 100 degrees your chicks will start dying (maybe even before that). Chicks that are too warm will get diarrhea and will eventually lose the lining of their intestines. At that point they will have trouble absorbing food and will get probably die. The best thing you can do for them is to give them a powder probiotic. This will help restore good bacteria in their intestine that will aid digestion. At around 85 degrees your chicks will start getting lethargic and will eventually die. Temperature is very important to young chicks and you must have the proper temperature for them to thrive. The temperature in the brooder should be very even and consistent.

 

[Kiki]

I noticed two weeks ago you posted a thread about needing help with poopy butt chicks.
Did you get those poopy butts "fixed"?
Poopy butts can be cause by being too hot too and also cocci.

 

[Cntry1958]

Also where is your brooder at? Is it inside house with air on or outside in a garage or just outside. What is the temp in the room or garage also or outside. Today here was 92 but if directly in sun its hotter as there is no shade for them to escape to. So you need to also adjust for that. Example if its 95 outside it can be well over a 100 or so in a garage. Because heat builds up and has no way to escape.

 

[showgirl275]

Weather is around 70 degrees and the heat lamp is on one side of brooder other side of brooder is about 70 degrees as well. Would the heat cause them to open there mouths and act paralyzed?

 

[Kiki]

yes.

 

[2mnypetz]

What did you find out? Did you move the light? Did the rest of the chicks make it? I've been worried about them! It's so scary & sad.