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yonkey I went back and read your previous postings, it appears you have been losing chicks since pretty much day one? How many of the original 50 have now passed?

There appears to be something very wrong with your flock, be in their conditions, the environment or an illness and we can only limit that further with more info...

I notice in your intro post you said you are living 'high in the Rockies' and these chicks are 2 weeks old, and are outside in a tractor? Is that correct? If not please provide more details of your chicks housing and local temps...

I don't have the actual temps in your area as I don't exactly know where that is, but from a quick Google search it appears the temps in that region for September are about a high of 80° and a low in the 40° range, is this a decent estimation of your outdoor weather? Is the tractor heated? Do they chirp non-stop? At this age (2 weeks) the chicks need at minimum about 80° all the times, if they don't have heat they very well could simply be getting chilled and dying from exposure as they can't realistically handle 40° temps at this age... To rule this out please elaborate on your husbandry practices and brooding practices for these chicks...

Next is the every popular cocci illness, and that is very probable since they are outdoors... Are they on a medicated feed? Bloody poop? Not eating? Lethargy?

Further if they are not heated and manage to survive being chilled they very well could have developed a chest infection or other infection due to the low temps lowering their immunity, do you see them gasping for air? Yawning? Boogers? Sneezing? Gasping? Noisy breathing?
 
yonkey said:
They eat chick grow mostly but alittle mealworms everyday too. The ones that died today were looking like they were having trouble moving like muscle failure. They are about a month and 2 weeks old. They stay in a trailor outside right now all day and night. There is about 40 of them. They have a clean water. I have one left with these conditions.
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So at 6 weeks old, I would give them some Corid to treat for coccidiosis. Dosage is 2 tsp of the liquid Corid or 1.5 tsp of the powder Corid per gallon of water for 5 days, and treat everyone. Change the water daily. You will want to keep them on clean grass or bedding every day since the droppings are probably full of cocci. If they act cold, put a heat lamp for them to get under if they wish. After their Corid treatment, give them some Rooster Booster vitamins and probiotics (Vitamins With Lactobacillus) for about a week in their water. Here is a good article to read about coccidiosis: http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2012/12/coccidiosis-what-backyard-chicken.html
 
Yonkey, people have been responding pretty well to your requests for help in spite of your abandoning your previous threads and beginning new ones on the same subject.

Firstly, it's frowned upon to do that at BYC and for very good reason. It makes it very difficult for responders to follow your posts. They call it a "thread" because it has continuity. It's a conversation, and if the person starting the conversation keeps running off and starting a new conversation somewhere else, that person shouldn't expect to accomplish very much.

So, you will get more feedback and help if you stick to just one thread on one subject - what's making your chicks sick and die. There is some excellent help and experience here. Please try to give it a chance.
 

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