ok first im going to start with the fact that i know with raising chickens i am to expect losses. that being said i think that 1 a month is a little high of a ratio, and im out of ideas on whats wrong. The poor things just seem to wither away and die, and theyre so good at hiding it, that i never realize something is wrong until they stop running for treats, and when i got to get them its never the same symptoms and there is nothing on them. no thigh meat, no breast meat, just bones and feathers. all breeds have been equally affected, marans, EE's, silkies, its not descrimpitory(not that i would expect it to be). The first few has respitory infections, they were isolated treated with tylan 50, while i treated the whole flock with durmycin10, just to knock out anything that hadnt developed yet. everyone would respond well, except for the ones on tylan. they would perk up and make a complete turn around while being treated, then as soon as treatment was done, they would be dead the next morning. they have all been wormed, twice in the last 4 months. the last one was leg mites, and before i could cover her legs the second time she too was dead with no meat on her at all... Im out of ideas on whats going on, am i just having bad luck, i dont know, so im handing it over to the BYC experts for some advice.
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