Help...mass chick death and one surviving chick.

[Feath3rDust3r]

So we had 8 very healthy week old chicks. This is about our 6th time to raise chicks. We woke up yesterday morning and found a box of what I thought was all dead chicks. I don't really know why but it just looked like they had gone to sleep...anyway we kicked the box etc and no movement. After further investigation we decided we had a gas leak in the garage anyway to cut a long story short I put the entire box out by the garbage can. When I went to take the garbage out this morning I heard some cheeping...upon checking the box I found one little chick had come back to life!!! The rest were definitely very dead. How this week old baby has survived 24 hours of below 70 degrees I have no idea! Anyway I brought her back inside and put the lamp back on but she is very lonely. I don't know where i can find more chicks atm but I do have 3 6 week old Guinea foul. Do you think I could put her in with them?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Do you have a local Tractor supply? They are currently selling chicks here again. If no other choice than the guinea can be company, but it may mess up how your chick thinks. It will think it's a guinea, and the guinea will think so too.

 

[chrissynemetz]

Ooh I wouldn't put the chick with the guineas. I love them, but I've seen them kill young chicks who wandered too close. I'd be afraid to try it.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Ooh I wouldn't put the chick with the guineas. I love them, but I've seen them kill young chicks who wandered too close. I'd be afraid to try it.

I've never owned them, so I wasn't sure of their temperament. Thanks for clarifying it. They are as nasty as they look.

 

[chrissynemetz]

I've raised guineas together with chickens before. They do pretty good in a large free range setting. But whenever I had chicks, I always had to make sure they had a really protective mama hen watching out for them, or the guineas would get after the chicks.
Guineas are really good watch dogs, and they'll do a number on any bugs in your yard. But mine were never very tolerant of young chicks.

 

[tn_artist]

So we had 8 very healthy week old chicks. This is about our 6th time to raise chicks. We woke up yesterday morning and found a box of what I thought was all dead chicks. I don't really know why but it just looked like they had gone to sleep...anyway we kicked the box etc and no movement. After further investigation we decided we had a gas leak in the garage anyway to cut a long story short I put the entire box out by the garbage can. When I went to take the garbage out this morning I heard some cheeping...upon checking the box I found one little chick had come back to life!!! The rest were definitely very dead. How this week old baby has survived 24 hours of below 70 degrees I have no idea! Anyway I brought her back inside and put the lamp back on but she is very lonely. I don't know where i can find more chicks atm but I do have 3 6 week old Guinea foul. Do you think I could put her in with them?

If we live near enough, I can give you a couple chicks. I'm in eastern/Central NC.