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Miss Lydia said:
How are the ducklings and chicks doing this afternoon?
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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...
 
sniper338 said:
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...
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Miss Lydia said:
That's great news! Did you get any to stay alive from your first shipment? and how many did you lose with this one?
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I have a few live from the first shipment. They are doing fine. Im not even giving them attention anymore, feed water, clean brooder, thats it.

This second batch 6 dead so far. Im not ruling out loosing more yet though.

So far... Im going to tell ideal to not refund me anything. If all keeps going well I will get what I paid for.
 
sniper338 said:
One just died... and another one Im watching. The rest all just got up and ate and drank...
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Damn, I'm sorry, man. Is there a way for you to maybe turn down the temp on your brood plate instead of using the heat lamp? One thing I've heard is that many times ducks do better with defined day and night cycles. I don't know how much that would help in this case, though.
 

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