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[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

you mean an open beak yawny or need for air like breathing hard?

It appears to me like you've got your heat lamp a little too low since none of the chicks are under it, but are around the perimeter. Just my 2c...

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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I think Seth has a familial tremor from what he shared with us before - I think he means inadvertently shaking them because of his tremor.

(Of course, that doesn't explain the commas...)

- Ant Farm

 

[Phage]

they have not been out to the coops. They are upstairs in the house. I have not been near the main coop waiting out the two weeks to clean. The only ones outside are in a mobile coop that has not been used since October long prior to the January infection.
I wonder if they came with something.

It is possible but bit unlikely as If they came with what ever is causing this it would be happening to others, and we would be hearing about 1000's of chicks dropping all over BYC.

I know it is tough, but I would wait a while before getting more birds. Let what ever is causing this leave your home and property. Rebuild your coops and start again MUCH later. Maybe even get eggs or chicks from someone you know and trust to have no health issues.

 

[kwhites634]

CH

you dont gotta shake em when you turn em bro

He can't help shaking, Jack; he's got tremors in the hands

 

[LocalYokel]

I think Seth has a familial tremor from what he shared with us before - I think he means inadvertently shaking them because of his tremor.

(Of course, that doesn't explain the commas...)

- Ant Farm

Yes

Maybe its from the Candleitis

I like @Ur-ur-ur-urrr idea

 

[daxigait]

I don't know. I will be calling to ask. Especially since it's just their chicks. I put 12 of them downstairs in a Tupper with my four two week old Lavender Orpingtons from a different hatchery, and the rest upstairs with a Tupper that had not been used for chicks with a new light. The shipped chicks are the only ones dying at this point and the symptoms are the same.
My worry now is for my new LO because I figured they would be safe from a clean hatchery and they would be a blended flock. I can only hope it does not prove to be a fatal error there too.
I keep hand sanitizer by the door upstairs and downstairs at the bathroom to use before and after.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Be back in about an hour. The Walking Dead is on

 

[lindalouly]

I don't know. I will be calling to ask. Especially since it's just their chicks. I put 12 of them downstairs in a Tupper with my four two week old Lavender Orpingtons from a different hatchery, and the rest upstairs with a Tupper that had not been used for chicks with a new light. The shipped chicks are the only ones dying at this point and the symptoms are the same.
My worry now is for my new LO because I figured they would be safe from a clean hatchery and they would be a blended flock. I can only hope it does not prove to be a fatal error there too.
I keep hand sanitizer by the door upstairs and downstairs at the bathroom to use before and after.

Was it a silent death... No symptoms prior?

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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For whatever it's worth, of my first three chicks that I ever had (cream legbar pullets), two died and only Paula survived. I was using a heat lamp and struggling to keep the temperature low enough. I'm almost certain that I basically cooked the poor little things. I will never use a heat lamp again - use a Mama heating pad now. I was convinced that I was cursed until I put it together (of course, I was pretty inexperienced).

I know it must be frustrating for us to keep coming up with different things/ideas, but just trying to help.

- Ant Farm

 

[LocalYokel]

Be back in about an hour. The Walking Dead is on

oh choot Im outtie