PLEASE HELP!!! UPDATE: 12 dead keets in 24 hours! Only 4 of 17 left!!

[casportpony]

It's the exact same brooding system that I have had for the hundred+ chicks that I have raised over the years, so that is of no concern at all. I think that the problem occured at some point during shipping... They hatched the 7th and didn't get here till yesterday at 3 o'clock, the 1st. So maybe they were in the mail for too long and got too cold or died of starvation. But I gave heat and food when they got here, so I'm not sure.

This doesn't make sense to me.

-Kathy

 

[000]

They were purchesed as day olds. The box they came in I threw away already and I don't remember what the lable said. There are still 4 left alive and I am causiosly hopefule that they will survive.

 

[casportpony]

They were purchesed as day olds. The box they came in I threw away already and I don't remember what the lable said. There are still 4 left alive and I am causiosly hopefule that they will survive.

Next time you get chicks I suggest that you open the box at the post office and have an employee come look if any are dead or looking like they are going to die. Next time someone gifts chicks or keets, make note of the hatchery they came from.

-Kathy

 

[000]

Quote: This doesn't make sense to me.

-Kathy
Sorry about my confusing posts... I was in a hurry so I typed fast. What I ment was that they hatched on the 30th of August, shipped that day, and didn't arrive at my post office until late in the afternoon of the 1st of September. So they spent over 2 days in the mail.

 

[000]

Next time you get chicks I suggest that you open the box at the post office and have an employee come look if any are dead or looking like they are going to die. Next time someone gifts chicks or keets, make note of the hatchery they came from.

-Kathy

When they arrived only one looked ill, which I suppose is a normal ratio. Also the post office that animals and large packeges are delivered to in my town is weird... we knocked on the door of this huge warehouse, waited ten minutes, and a teen came out. We told him my name and he got the box, handed it to us, and walked away. There was no conversation about it at all.

I'm going to call my grandparents today and get the name of the hatchery so I can email them about this.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

When they arrived only one looked ill, which I suppose is a normal ratio. Also the post office that animals and large packeges are delivered to in my town is weird... we knocked on the door of this huge warehouse, waited ten minutes, and a teen came out. We told him my name and he got the box, handed it to us, and walked away. There was no conversation about it at all.

I'm going to call my grandparents today and get the name of the hatchery so I can email them about this.

I may also report your PO to the USPS

 

[casportpony]

Since only one looked sick it's quite possible that there is/was something odd about your brooder, which is why I asked for pictures of it. There have been others like you that have had similar problems, and even though they had raised chicks before, their brooder was not set up properly. Not sure why you were so reluctant to post pictures of your brooder, doing so might have revealed some clues as to why so many were dying.

-Kathy

 

[000]

Since only one looked sick it's quite possible that there is/was something odd about your brooder, which is why I asked for pictures of it. There have been others like you that have had similar problems, and even though they had raised chicks before, their brooder was not set up properly. Not sure why you were so reluctant to post pictures of your brooder, doing so might have revealed some clues as to why so many were dying.

-Kathy

Unfortunatly, my phone has ramdomly stopped working all together earlier today

, so I am unable to take a picture, upload it to my laptop, and post it.

When we first got the chicks they were in a larger brooder in the laundry room, but they started dying and I moved them into a different brooder that is in my room so I could moniter them throughout the second night. As they have been in 2 different brooders (both of which I have used before and were thouroghly cleaned before use) the brooder is not the the problem.


Also, the remaining 4 keets seem to be doing very well (YAY!!!

). They are drinking TONS of water (with electroytes) and eating a good amount of food.


From what I have read about guinea foul, they do not like to be contained and would be happier free-ranging during the day with a flock. Is three or four enough to safely allow to free range? I read that sometimes they refuse to go in the coop at all, even to sleep, so would they be okay to sleep in a tree at night with just the three or four of them?

Thanks!

 

[000]

When I talk about free ranging, of course I mean when when they are fully grown and mature in a few months.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I would worry about predators in your area before letting them free range over night