i bought 7 chicks 3 days ago, it's my 3rd time ti raising baby chicks but i never came across such problem, they all was eating, drinking and looks really good at night one of them started to have a very loud voice, and when i checked them it was okay but keep like shouting so loud after 3 hours it checked it, i saw it's eyes closed and he stand alone, he was moving 1 more hour and it wasn't moving he was lying on the ground it took it like more than 5 more hours to die completely and this keep happens with the others i wasn't able to anything for it, now what's wrong or what should i do?!
We'll need more information. How old are these chicks? How are your brooder temperatures? What are you using as a heat source? What are you feeding them? How do the droppings look? Have you checked for pasty butt? Any symptoms aside from crying? Chicks cry like that when something is wrong.
Other ideas aside from pasty butt: Are you using CEDAR bedding? They can't have cedar bedding- toxic. Do you maybe have one of those toxic varieties of heat bulb? There is a kind that kills chicks- worth a search. Do your chicks have a place to cool down? An easy mistake is having their whole brooder be a sauna.
