Lost a chick

[wwdubose]

I switched my 3 week old chicks and my brooder box to sand mixed with a half bag of stall dry yesterday. Came home today to find one of my Delaware chicks dead in the brooder. It was our largest chick, had no apparent issues, and appeared healthy. Plenty of feed and water and had the heat lamps on. It has no signs of pecking and it's vent area looked fine. This is my second round of chicks in this brooder, and the only thing I did different this time around is that I used stall dry in the sand instead of sweet PDZ. I also switched them from medicated starter to dumor starter/grower a fews days back. The same as with my chicks last year.

Scratching my head on this one. Any ideas?

 

[Peeps61]

Could the chick have ingested too much of the sand and the stall dry not have agreed with it?

 

[wwdubose]

Could the chick have ingested too much of the sand and the stall dry not have agreed with it?

Guess it's possible. One of the Delaware chicks was taking a dust bath yesterday evening late, but not sure if it was the same one. Just can't imagine how a chick can go from super healthy to dead overnight unless it ate something that didn't agree with it or something too large that caused it to choke.

 

[Peeps61]

I agree. It is puzzling, but it sounds like it might be something they ate if they don't appear to be sick. Hmmm. Let us know if you get it figured out!