Help. What is wrong with my chicks?

[BluebirdHomestead]

Do you have a carbon monoxide detector?
Might be worth checking.

I don’t have one. Yes that is worth checking. In the meantime should I turn off the heat in there and just rely on the heat from the brooder? If the boiler pilot is still lit, could it still be leaking even with the heat off?

 

[21hens-incharge]

I don’t have one. Yes that is worth checking. In the meantime should I turn off the heat in there and just rely on the heat from the brooder? If the boiler pilot is still lit, could it still be leaking even with the heat off?

No way of knowing without checking.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Kidde-C...MIo6yompPZ5QIV0Rx9Ch0tGgkkEAQYASABEgKezPD_BwE

Not horribly expensive.
Worth having since you have a kiddo too.

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

No way of knowing without checking.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Kidde-C...MIo6yompPZ5QIV0Rx9Ch0tGgkkEAQYASABEgKezPD_BwE

Not horribly expensive.
Worth having since you have a kiddo too.

Yep going to get them tomorrow.

 

[aart]

No way of knowing without checking.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Kidde-C...MIo6yompPZ5QIV0Rx9Ch0tGgkkEAQYASABEgKezPD_BwE

Not sure that would read levels low enough to affect birds?

Who installed your boiler?
They probably have a more sensitive detector.
Is the boiler even in the same room as the chicks?

 

[21hens-incharge]

Not sure that would read levels low enough to affect birds?

Who installed your boiler?
They probably have a more sensitive detector.
Is the boiler even in the same room as the chicks?

I am not sure either.
Just trying to rule out every possibility since the source for the birds is having no issues but the OP's chicks are dying.

 

[Skippersnh]

Haven't been following the whole thread but did the op switch to a chick starter I think that food in first post is a bad choice

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

Haven't been following the whole thread but did the op switch to a chick starter I think that food in first post is a bad choice

Yep switched to Purina medicated starter

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

I am not sure either.
Just trying to rule out every possibility since the source for the birds is having no issues but the OP's chicks are dying.

Well they weren’t dying when I was there. Who knows the truth at this point.

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

Not sure that would read levels low enough to affect birds?

Who installed your boiler?
They probably have a more sensitive detector.
Is the boiler even in the same room as the chicks?

I don’t know who installed it. It was there when we moved here. It’s not in the same room.

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

Should I move the chicks inside??? I hate hate hate the red heat lamp and am scared I’ll burn my house down but I could move them into a bin inside with a heat lamp