Important question

[Kiki]

Ok great.


My first guess would be maybe an older bird attacked the little.
I highly doubt it was because it was too cold outside.

Second guess would be that maybe the chicks are not used to the coccidia in your yard/coop.

 

[Keeperoflock]

When I first put mine outside, I kept them closed up in the coop for about a week and let them out each day a little at a time after that. That was to expose them to the environment and "germs" including coccidiosis. Keep in mind I didn't have other chickens though.

Is your food medicated? Of course it's really no telling what might have taken it but like KikisGirls said coccidiosis is a possibility.

 

[Blooie]

I seriously doubt it was the cold as well. My first heat-lamp-indoor-raised chicks were evicted to the coop at 5.5 weeks and we had temps in the twenties. Got down to 18 the first night out. They did great. That was in April of 2014 and we didn’t get our last snowfall that year until June 6th! If I’d have waited until books, charts and experts said it was “safe” to put them out, I’d have had 22 chicks in the house until they were 17 weeks old....already Ida had laid her first egg by then.

Now I skip all that fol-de-rol and start them outside in a wire pen in the run with temps what they were that first year. All they have for heat is a heating pad cave. The rest of the brooder is the same temp as the air temps. They tuck under Mama Heating Pad for a quick warm up then they’re back out exploring. They thrive.

I’m more inclined to believe what Kiki suggested....one of the adults - or many of them - attacked her as an intruder. Integration can be a very tricky...and sometimes fatal...endeavor. It could be chick that was already compromised in some way and the stress was too much for it. I know Coccidia strikes fast but there are usually symptoms for a day or so rather than an overnight contract-and-perish type thing. There are lots of threads on here about integrating successfully. Simply type that in the search box and you’ll find lots of help. Good luck!

 

[Fr3shfarmer]

I seriously doubt it was the cold as well. My first heat-lamp-indoor-raised chicks were evicted to the coop at 5.5 weeks and we had temps in the twenties. Got down to 18 the first night out. They did great. That was in April of 2014 and we didn’t get our last snowfall that year until June 6th! If I’d have waited until books, charts and experts said it was “safe” to put them out, I’d have had 22 chicks in the house until they were 17 weeks old....already Ida had laid her first egg by then.

Now I skip all that fol-de-rol and start them outside in a wire pen in the run with temps what they were that first year. All they have for heat is a heating pad cave. The rest of the brooder is the same temp as the air temps. They tuck under Mama Heating Pad for a quick warm up then they’re back out exploring. They thrive.

I’m more inclined to believe what Kiki suggested....one of the adults - or many of them - attacked her as an intruder. Integration can be a very tricky...and sometimes fatal...endeavor. It could be chick that was already compromised in some way and the stress was too much for it. I know Coccidia strikes fast but there are usually symptoms for a day or so rather than an overnight contract-and-perish type thing. There are lots of threads on here about integrating successfully. Simply type that in the search box and you’ll find lots of help. Good luck!

I don't really know I had 14 left in the broader and one passed away the same way just before I left for work. I don't know what is going on it was fine this morning. And they are all vacincated from the site I got them from. I just die a little when the babies die. And it was fast like a few hours.

 

[Fr3shfarmer]

could I have given them something? I mean I handle them all daily and when I separate them two die. And in different locations.

 

[Fr3shfarmer]

I wish I had someone in persons to talk to.

 

[Kiki]

I am here now.

I don't think you could have given them anything, I wound't worry about that.

Did you notice...the one that died inside...acting sluggish for different compared to the others?

How about their poop...does anyone have strange looking poop?

 

[Fr3shfarmer]

I am here now.

I don't think you could have given them anything, I wound't worry about that.

Did you notice...the one that died inside...acting sluggish for different compared to the others?

How about their poop...does anyone have strange looking poop?

She was laying down every time I came in today busy she moved when I opened the top. I have to ask could they have bonded?

 

[Fr3shfarmer]

That may be a weird question but I had a dog that did that when our female died.

 

[Fr3shfarmer]

Well I just got home and they are all doing good as of now all are just as talkative as normal.