drsze61
Hatching
- Aug 16, 2015
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Hello every one,
I am a first time chicken keeper, before I purchase my brood, I read up on everything on line and in books. they were hatch on August 10th, (Myer's hatchery, a great place BTW) I got them on the 12th, Pick them up at 5 am at post office, fed them vita gro-gel from the hatchery on arrival, make sure all drank and ate, one that were slow starter, I took out into intensive care brooder and all were thriving. I prepared my brooder area well, fed them chick starter (20 % protein) kept their area spotlessly clean, started with temp of 90-95 during first week and 5 degree less each week there after, started on paper towel for the first 6 days, make sure all of them were eating and drinking well, then lay down pine shaving once they all knew where to eat and drink, gave them vita water, and cleaned daily meticulously. all the other ones looks healthy like she did, running and scratching around, they spread out evenly in the brooder, not too cold, not too hot, all seems very comfortable, no blood in stool. This morning she was doing fine, and when I came home from a a short trip to the market, she looked tired and not moving much, I drop vita water slowly with a eye dropper and she drank and seem to feel better and I came back 30 minutes later and she was dead. It was awful, my little Spanish girl (blue Andalusian) , I check all the other chicks and they all seems fit and without any evidence of stress. I check for pasty butt daily and clean the occasional ones with warm wet paper towel and blow dry them dry. I just check everyone this morning and no pasty butt on any of them. I am not sure what happen. is it common for baby chick just to die like that? I try to search and can not find any answer, any input would be appreciated, thanks. I see all of them scratching and occasionally eating the shavings, but all of the rest seems to be fit and full of spunk. My little Delaware was a little out of spirits on the same day but now perk up and back to normal2 days later, so far today every one seems healthy, I have about 27 chicks in 2 separate brooder giving each chick lots of room to spare. no pasty butt on any of them and each one have normal looking poop. was the lost of one chick just what happens with raising a lot of chicks?
I am a first time chicken keeper, before I purchase my brood, I read up on everything on line and in books. they were hatch on August 10th, (Myer's hatchery, a great place BTW) I got them on the 12th, Pick them up at 5 am at post office, fed them vita gro-gel from the hatchery on arrival, make sure all drank and ate, one that were slow starter, I took out into intensive care brooder and all were thriving. I prepared my brooder area well, fed them chick starter (20 % protein) kept their area spotlessly clean, started with temp of 90-95 during first week and 5 degree less each week there after, started on paper towel for the first 6 days, make sure all of them were eating and drinking well, then lay down pine shaving once they all knew where to eat and drink, gave them vita water, and cleaned daily meticulously. all the other ones looks healthy like she did, running and scratching around, they spread out evenly in the brooder, not too cold, not too hot, all seems very comfortable, no blood in stool. This morning she was doing fine, and when I came home from a a short trip to the market, she looked tired and not moving much, I drop vita water slowly with a eye dropper and she drank and seem to feel better and I came back 30 minutes later and she was dead. It was awful, my little Spanish girl (blue Andalusian) , I check all the other chicks and they all seems fit and without any evidence of stress. I check for pasty butt daily and clean the occasional ones with warm wet paper towel and blow dry them dry. I just check everyone this morning and no pasty butt on any of them. I am not sure what happen. is it common for baby chick just to die like that? I try to search and can not find any answer, any input would be appreciated, thanks. I see all of them scratching and occasionally eating the shavings, but all of the rest seems to be fit and full of spunk. My little Delaware was a little out of spirits on the same day but now perk up and back to normal2 days later, so far today every one seems healthy, I have about 27 chicks in 2 separate brooder giving each chick lots of room to spare. no pasty butt on any of them and each one have normal looking poop. was the lost of one chick just what happens with raising a lot of chicks?
