Second order of ducks in today...

[casportpony]

I wonder if the Formula 409 that you used to clean the brooder with is affecting them?

 

[Kiki]

5pm update.

Been at work... no deaths during the day today. Most seem to be eating and drinking now. Running around some. Still a few that seem too lathargic. Not up to normal, but seem to get better.

I use warm water for the waterers, I knew that. Just added some probiotics in their water just now. They had strsight water all day to help flush the nutri drench molasses out so they dont have the runs.

I took out the brooder plate completely last night before I went to bed. Left only the heat lamp. My theory was the only thing I havent tried was cooling down the brooder. I said, well they wete all lively when I got them in the box.. all standing. I added all the heat and they got worse, maybe my thermometer was off... i thought to myself, if they cant make it with just the heat lamp then they are gonners, everyone uses just a heat lamp, its common... so I took the heater plate out..

Seems to have changed for the better, maybe they were overheating and dehydrated. They still were all bunching up under the heat, but I dont think they were as cold as they put on to be. So less heat has helped...

Woot! The picture you posted earlier looked like it was way too hot in there with a lamp and plate.
I'm glad to see you removed one.

 

[sniper338]

I wonder if the Formula 409 that you used to clean the brooder with is affecting them?

No. The ones that lived are doing fine from the furst batch, the second batch had new everything, brooder and all.

 

[chickens really]

What's the Brooder made of?

 

[casportpony]

No. The ones that lived are doing fine from the furst batch, the second batch had new everything, brooder and all.

And the heat lamp is not one of those shatter-resistant ones?

 

[Kiki]

@sniper338 I just noticed you are down the road from me.
I repeat... I firmly believe you are overheating them.

I don't even keep freshly hatched the my quail chicks at 90.
I start them off at 85 and they are much smaller than chicken chicks or ducks.

 

[chickens really]

@sniper338 I just noticed you are down the road from me.
I repeat... I firmly believe you are overheating them.

I don't even keep freshly hatched the my quail chicks at 90.
I start them off at 85 and they are much smaller than chicken chicks or ducks.

Yes I never heat at a set temperature either because most do best when cooler.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I start my ducklings at 85 also.

 

[sniper338]

What's the Brooder made of?

GQF brooder made for poultry, and a poly/plastic tub from TSC. This aint my first second, third forth or or twentieth time to raise birds. Aint the brooders.