I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO!!! PLEASE HELP!!!

[Newchickymama37]

I don't see how rain is killing your chickens.
You should send the dead ones off for a necropsy. Maybe there is an underline illness or disorder, I don't know. when you treated them for cocci. Did you do the full round of corid? Or just one dose? Because one dose doesn't help at all. Do your chickens have a place to escape the rain or do they just stand there drowning themselves in it?

I did an entire treatment and yes they can get out of the rain but often do go out into it foraging for bugs.

 

[duckduckgose]

are they dry?warm? maybe install a heat lamp, i heard somewhere that a sudden change in temperature is bad for chickens sorry for your loss

 

[Newchickymama37]

what are you feeding them?
How old are they?
Do you have grit avalible?
Do they free range?
Do they have fresh water at all times?
Coop size and run, how many birds?
The moisture could be a problem. Sorry more questions, no answers

I am feeding layer pellets with a few side treats of grains and sunflower seeds. Not sure how many I’m even down to now but it’s like maybe 25-30. They have a huge run that’s like 50x50 with a large coop with roosts and 8 nesting boxes plus other places to lay eggs placed around the run randomly. They vary in age from around 18-20 weeks up to 2 1/2 years.

 

[Newchickymama37]

are they dry?warm? maybe install a heat lamp, i heard somewhere that a sudden change in temperature is bad for chickens sorry for your loss

Well there was just a lot of rain from the hurricane so it was hard to keep everything perfectly dry but I tried. No way to put in heat because they are at our land where we don’t live and the only electricity is a generator we use to run the well.

 

[Newchickymama37]

Sorry, yes they always have clean food and water with acv in it.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Rain ain’t killing your chickens neither is wet food or anything like that if it’s happened over the summer. Did you ever actually see worms or blood in the droppings?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

There is only one way to get to the bottom it. Send a recent fatality to your state poultry lab for necropsy and lab work. Otherwise everyone is just guessing - prolonging your misery.
I know there are more but here is one of the SC labs. If you call them they can tell you about others.
Clemson Veterinary Diagnostic Center
500 Clemson Road
Columbia, South Carolina 29229-4306
Phone: 803-788-2260

 

[TheLaboratoryBF]

I'm sorry for your losses.

You mentioned in your first post that you just started raising chickens in the spring and later shared that your birds are between 18-20 weeks old and 2.5 years old; where did the older birds come from and how/when were they quarantined/integrated?

 

[50-45-1]

Reading some of your older posts i see you have aquired and adopted adult chickens from local sources. Were they verified diesese free before mingling them with your flock?

 

[Newchickymama37]

Rain ain’t killing your chickens neither is wet food or anything like that if it’s happened over the summer. Did you ever actually see worms or blood in the droppings?

No, neither!