mcmurry sick chicks please post here

[TheFunnyFarm]

Hello all'What a wounderful site.Just recieved my very first chicks from McMurry on march 3rd.I orderd 25 they sent me an extra RIR and 7 cockrules I live in SE wisconsin still very cold but all arrived healthy
and 4days later are still doing GREAT
7RIR 6Buff Orpys 6Blk Aus 6Lt brams 6 and 1 free rare chick

 

[Stormhorse23]

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Good choice. mcmurray finally said they'd replace my chicks aftering they said they had "brooder phen..whatever" and I said I didn'tt want anymore of their birds. I just got in my ideal order a few days ago, PERFECT birds. Lost one duck in shipping and that was it. Everyone is fine.

Storm how many do you have left out of your order ??

by the time everything is finished (i have to "put to sleep" a few more), maybe 13 or so. I've noticed once they get stumbling around, they just go downhill. Anitbiotics, extra heat, sugar water, even tried different foods. hmm​

 

[mullers3acers]

I also had ordered from McMurray 25 jumbo cornish cross; 25 white giants ' 5 red blue laced Wyandottes and got two free rare breeds. In route we lost 4 giants and one cross. As a couple of days have passed we have lost 4 more giants. I had experienced worse we have ordered from our local feed store and lost over half of what we ordered. But both places have been kind and replaced the chicks that we have lost.

 

[gypsygirl1421]

I ordered 5 red star, 5 silkie, 5 Favorelles and 10 Ameracuana's that were delivered Feb.10. 1 Favorelle dead on arrival. The Favorelles and silkies were really really sluggish up to 6 days after arrival. The ameracuanas started getting sick about a week after that (not standing up, shaking). What I did was go out and get a package of electrolytes and vitamins and have been putting it in their water along with Terramycin. This has finally seemed to have worked. Since some seemed t0o sluggish to drink I also sprinkled both on their crumbles. I also gave them pedialyte (for kids) as soon as I got them, so that might have helped. The ameracuanas are fine now but the rest just sit in a pile and don't move much at all. I am still not certain they are going to make it, they have barely even begun to grow feathers and they are almost 4 weeks old! I thought it was just me! I didn't contact McMurray.

 

[gypsygirl1421]

Forgot to mention, I had 2 more favorelles die on Sunday, March 2 from my Feb 11 order. Their legs seemed to stop working

 

[MNKris]

I just lost one more buff cock and 2 more partridge cochins. I am up to 8 dead out of 115. 18 are in the house still ( I brought a couple more in). The ones that have been affected aren't improving so I guess we are going to have to make a decision pretty soon. It's still all the same breeds. Grr...

 

[MNKris]

Also, does anyone have any studies online to the effects of chicks getting chilled? I totally do not believe this is what is happening to ours. It's like their nervous system doesn't work right and once they start going downhill, they seldom return to normal.

 

[chickncrazy]

We received our McMurray order on Tuesday morning. The box said the chicks had been hatched at 1:46am on Saturday. So by the time the post office called me it had been about 8 hours past the 72 hour time that they say chicks can survive. Ugh.

Anyway....we ordered 34 total and they did not have 2 of them, the mottled houdans. We received 10 buff laced polish, two were already dead in the box and 4 later died. We ordered 4 golden polish, two were already dead in the box. We ordered 4 mille fleurs and 2 later died. The rest have survived:
1 white crested black polish
1 partridge cochin
2 black stars
3 araucaunas
2 light brahmas (although they look like dark brahma chicks)
1 silver laced polish
3 barred rocks

 

[Hawkster318]

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MNKris,

The ones we lost most off were Polish types. They seemed smaller.weaker at the very beginning.

 

[seminolewind]

And no one thinks that it's too cold to mail chicks?

Go back and count how many chicks died going to cold climate northern states, and how many died going to a warm area (like Florida) You can see that most if not all were dying in northern states.