Help. What is wrong with my chicks?

[Pennys Mama]

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My brooder looks pretty mouse proof yeah? Once the sick ones are healthy, I’ll be moving them into a set up in that dog kennel/run thing you can see in the pic above and keeping the workshop warm enough for them. They will be 5 weeks on sat so I was planning on around 70 degrees. Then I’ll bleach/disinfect this brooder like crazy for the next group.

I'd say pretty nice brooder!!!

 

[ValerieJ]

Looks mouse proof to me too, but don't set it up next to the wall. Mice are pretty tricky.

 

[SurferchickinSB]

Well, after all of this, turns out it’s a respiratory infection. I rushed them to the vet today when I woke up to the healthy 4 all sick now. Can’t believe it was a respiratory infection and had I taken them to the vet sooner, I could have saved them. Apparently that rocking was them struggling to breath. I never would have known. Hoping these 4 pull through on antibiotics.

Yeah, I am so glad you took them in! That is what I like to do rather than treat them for something that they may not have. Hopefully all your babies will survive!

 

[SurferchickinSB]

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It’s pretty clean and there is literally nothing else in here except them.

That looks like a beautiful set up for some little chicks!

 

[SurferchickinSB]

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

I hate the red heat lamp too! I ended up using the ceramic reptile heating bulbs.

 

[SurferchickinSB]

So, my gut tells you that you are right about this. That they were carrying the disease and then the stress of transport made it active. So my question is this, if I get chicks from elsewhere, will they just catch it from mine and it’s pretty much hopeless?

Most likely

 

[cmom]

I hate the red heat lamp too! I ended up using the ceramic reptile heating bulbs.

I have used the also.

 

[Pennys Mama]

I hate the red heat lamp too! I ended up using the ceramic reptile heating bulbs.

I like the ceramic heat emitters better as well. The red bulbs worry me.

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

Looks mouse proof to me too, but don't set it up next to the wall. Mice are pretty tricky.

Oh good point. I wouldn’t have thought of that!

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

Yeah, I am so glad you took them in! That is what I like to do rather than treat them for something that they may not have. Hopefully all your babies will survive!

Yeah. Lesson learned. Next time I will be much much quicker to take them in.