JeffandLori
Songster
Just went to check on him again and he died in the last hour or so. Now the question is: Is there anything to learn from cutting him open? If he was diseased, I don’t want it getting to the rest of them.
Thx
And yeah, makes me sad even though in about a month he was going to be processed. My wife and I are firm believers in the humane stewardship of God’s creatures from the moment of first care to dispatch.
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I have a batch of 36 Cornish Cross that are four weeks old in the brooder. They've been doing well and active. I feed them about 10hrs/day per the breeder (Hoover's Hatchery).
This morning when I put the feeders in, one of them didn't get up to attack like the rest do. I picked it up and it is just limp. It is breathing, but as the day goes on it's getting worse and will barely open its eyes. Crop feels normal. It had a small amount of runny, yellow poop on its butt.
I tried to give it some water via syringe, but it didn't care for that. I did get a couple of CC down. I checked its temp with the infrared thermometer I use to check brooder temp and it was about 95 which seemed to be the same as another, super feisty one I picked up.
I do have some VetRX I could give him. If it is just random "grew too fast", that's the way it goes. I weighed 10 of them at the end of Week Two and they were 7.7oz average. Last Wednesday at the end of Week 3 I weighed 15 and had an average of 16.2oz.
Any thoughts? I don't know what to look for to indicate Coccidiosis.
Thx,
Thx
And yeah, makes me sad even though in about a month he was going to be processed. My wife and I are firm believers in the humane stewardship of God’s creatures from the moment of first care to dispatch.
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I have a batch of 36 Cornish Cross that are four weeks old in the brooder. They've been doing well and active. I feed them about 10hrs/day per the breeder (Hoover's Hatchery).
This morning when I put the feeders in, one of them didn't get up to attack like the rest do. I picked it up and it is just limp. It is breathing, but as the day goes on it's getting worse and will barely open its eyes. Crop feels normal. It had a small amount of runny, yellow poop on its butt.
I tried to give it some water via syringe, but it didn't care for that. I did get a couple of CC down. I checked its temp with the infrared thermometer I use to check brooder temp and it was about 95 which seemed to be the same as another, super feisty one I picked up.
I do have some VetRX I could give him. If it is just random "grew too fast", that's the way it goes. I weighed 10 of them at the end of Week Two and they were 7.7oz average. Last Wednesday at the end of Week 3 I weighed 15 and had an average of 16.2oz.
Any thoughts? I don't know what to look for to indicate Coccidiosis.
Thx,
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