Please tell me about your experience(s) with cocci

[StormyMoon]

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What is the temperature inside their brooder? When mine were little they laid around too ...when given the chance at more space they get up and run and have fun.
I have 60 chicks right now and its the middle of the day they are all laid out flat on the floor of their brooder. They keep different sleep hours than we do. Until they get older and in a dark room where they are forced to sleep at night and up in the day. But even my big hens lay around quite a bit especially during the summer.


I am going by your description : crop filling when eating and emptying , playing well in the bath room when you let them out, drinking when your in the room with them.

A sick chick will not eat or drink... they will avoid food , some will drink but it slowly tappers off and eventually they refuse all food and water when they are sick.

Is it possible you may have treated too much and now they are slowing down?

 

[Noobchick]

I have no idea what temp their brooders at to be honest. Upstairs thermostat is at 75 and the bathroom theyre closed in runs about 5 degrees warmer. So Im guessing about 80.

They eat their chick feed pretty well from what I can tell. (They dump some out onto the brooder floor, so again its an estimate). But I do fill their feeder once a day. They do eat the egg and yogurt when I feed them.

Do you think they would refuse to eat or drink if they had worms?

 

[StormyMoon]

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But you already did a test on worms for them so that has been ruled out correct?

 

[Highlander]

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I'm wondering if that's your problem. 80 is way too hot for 6 week olds, they should be almost off heat totally by that age.

 

[Noobchick]

Yikes. I dont have brooder lights on or anything. Should I turn down the A/C thermostat even more??

 

[StormyMoon]

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I'm wondering if that's your problem. 80 is way too hot for 6 week olds, they should be almost off heat totally by that age.

I agree heat could be a factor and they would possibly eat less during a heat spurt with down/full feathers growing they have a double coat on which makes it very warm for them.

I would wonder just how many do you have in 1 brooder, what the size of that brooder is... ?


We have to remember too what feels comfortable to us may not be comfortable to these chickens we aren't covered in a feathry coat.
Maybe you can add a fan to their room?

 

[Noobchick]

Stormy: yes and no. Turns out the stool sample I gave them was "too small". So they did the best they could but the vet says it couldve been faulty. So technically yes it was negative. But Im not certain how accurate those results really are.

 

[Noobchick]

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Four chicks are in one brooder. That one takes up the whole bathtub. The other two are in another brooder. Standard cardboard moving box. I got them two weeks after the other four.

 

[StormyMoon]

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Four chicks are in one brooder. That one takes up the whole bathtub. The other two are in another brooder. Standard cardboard moving box. I got them two weeks after the other four.

Have you put air holes in the side of the cardboard brooder? They need lots and lots of ventilation .....

 

[Highlander]

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Four chicks are in one brooder. That one takes up the whole bathtub. The other two are in another brooder. Standard cardboard moving box. I got them two weeks after the other four.

Are they inside your house 24/7? No coop?