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[Ravynscroft]

Sorry for your loss... you tried your best and that's all you could do...

 

[cd3farm]

What are your percentages in your honey mixture?

 

[iluvmybabiez]

It really depends on how much water, usually when the chick is sick I use a small plastic bowl, so I use maybe a teaspoon or two drops from the honey and mix in. I also mix in vitamins b12, C, and D, it makes the chicks perk up quick. I've had quite a few act sluggish, some near death that I've saved that way.

 

[cd3farm]

Okay, where do you get the vitamins. Are they liquid? Was that one tea of water? Sorry to sound harried but I am. I have new baby chicks that seem fine and then suddenly just lay down and eventually die. Quite a few of them. I am losing one or two a day and am getting desperate. I have raised chickens for 32 years and have never had this happen. Of course it is when I am investing in fancy breeds with the goal of selling chicks next year.

 

[iluvmybabiez]

No the vitamins are in pill form so I place them in the water mixed with honey to desolve.

You can get vitamins from any health shop, Walmart, CVS, any kind of pharmacy.

I'm sorry this is happening, the vitamins should really help. Also you may want to segregate the sick birds from the rest of the flock.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Okay, where do you get the vitamins.  Are they liquid?  Was that one tea of water?  Sorry to sound harried but I am. I have new baby chicks that seem fine and then suddenly just lay down and eventually die.  Quite a few of them.  I am losing one or two a day and am getting desperate.  I have raised chickens for 32 years and have never had this happen.  Of course it is when I am investing in fancy breeds with the goal of selling chicks next year.

Are their poops runny or bloody (very dark, tarry looking)? Sounds more like you are having issues with Cocci, that's the most common reason for chick deaths...

 

[cd3farm]

I have multiple ages from one week to five weeks running in the same large brooder. They all get along. I have been losing one or two a day for about a week. There is no way to separate the sick ones because I don't see anything wrong with any of them until it lays down like it is sleeping but never wakes up.
I did see what looked like blood in one of the larger poops. I started all of them on Corrid. The ones that have been dying are the youngest.

I was losing some of the youngest before I even put them in the large brooder because I thought it was heat related. Couldn't get my small brooder regulated and the heat and humidity here in Okla has been over the moon. Either hot or cool.

When I put them in the large brooder with a heat lamp they perked up and were great for a couple of days. They love it and they still are loving it. But when I went down there again this morning another one was doing it and it died a couple of hours later.

I just went and put some minerals and honey in their water and am thinking about giving them some scrambled eggs???

 

[Ravynscroft]

If you are treating for Cocci, do not give vitamins until after treatment ends... Corid is a thiamin blocker so giving vitamins will counteract it...

 

[cd3farm]

Good to know. Thanks