My chicks keep dying???????HELP

[4hchick38646]

I just started this and bought 50 chicks 2 months ago. About three weeks ago I moved 15 into a tractor outside last week I found one dead in tractor it had small amount of blood on its face. Today I go out there find one dead with same blood spots and another that wouldnt get up still breathing but that about it all with same blood spots. PLEASE HELP

 

[Judy]

What kind of chicks? Do you have buffalo gnats where you are, or can rats get in? How much space in the tractor?

 

[4hchick38646]

no buffalo gnats no rats its a 10 x 6 with closed in 6 x 4 on top. Somebody told me that cats are getting them? Have had two go blind before they dyed

 

[seminolewind]

I hope someone has an idea.

 

[cafarmgirl]

no buffalo gnats no rats its a 10 x 6 with closed in 6 x 4 on top. Somebody told me that cats are getting them? Have had two go blind before they dyed

Are there openings large enough that cats can get in? Or stick their paws in? If there are then mice or rats can get in too.

 

[seminolewind]

If those chicks are pecking at blood and having blood on their face, there may be a chance that they are picking at the blood from coccidiosis. I would treat them all with Corid.