Wasting Away in the Brooder.. Dropping like Flies

[Scrambled Egg]

Wonder if it's our horrible heat too Kim? What is the high today, like 98? It's horrible. Are they getting cooled off at all with a fan, water? The feed store nearest to us in in Puppy Creek...take a right at the light just before Walmart on Raeford Road and it is on that next corner..big feed store..I'm sure they have the sulmet..once they get well try that durvet in the water as an electrolyte boost..really helped mine alot that was a great tip for me. Good luck

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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Thanks. I didn't know what technically qualifies as a brooder. I was just going by "use." LOL She'll put her chicks only a week or less old in there and that's where they stay until they are old enough to hit the next grow-out pen or the coop.

I call anything that you put young chicks into a "brooder". LOL. My ignorance showing again.

-Kim

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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I sent the owner off to go find some Sulmet. It may be the heat, but would it cause some to stop eating and not others? Oh I don't know. I'll have her treat them for the coccidiosis and hope for the best. I know she won't bring them into the house and I don't know if she has a fan for them.

I'll pass up the info and suggestions though.

Thanks everyone ya'll are great.

-Kim

 

[Mrs MIA]

Good luck to her... I hope they make it!

 

[Wolf-Kim]

Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain :

Good luck to her... I hope they make it!

Thanks everyone!

-Kim​

 

[Zookeeper9000]

Hi Kim sorry to hear of the troubles with your babies (even if they are with someone else they are still her babies)

I just thought I would share, I am new to chickens so I might not be of any help. But I had my dorkings in with buff orps and BR/buff orp mixes and I had to put my dorkings in a brooder by their self as they would just hang back from the feed and water. I chose to put them in a brooder by themself and they are growing like weeds and doing great.

Yes Tori I know you need updated pics LOL haven't had time will get to it this week.

Again hope I helped I have other breeds as well and I have to say that the personality of the dorkings are just calm and laid back they just would sit back and wait, didn't seem to like confrontations of any sort.

Please forgive my spelling been a long day and I am too tired to look words up.

 

[Mrs MIA]

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Photos???

How are the babies doing, Kim?

 

[tiki244]

I would definitely suggest the ones that are not as "meaty" to be separated from the rest. Give them 6 days of sulmet and then 5 days of a probiotic. The sulmet needs to be mixed in a small amt of very warm water first because it is very hard to disolve, and then add cold water to the mix. I have about 20 baby chicks together and I regularly re-separate them into smaller groups when I see some are not getting enough nutrition. I have three separate cages for them. If she takes care of them like this she should have no problems. Are they able to get away from the mysquitos?

 

[Mrs MIA]

The Sulmet I get is in liquid form already... ~ 1 tsp to 1 gallon of water. Of course, I mix up smaller amounts at a time, so it's fresh daily. Plain, all natural yogurt is so good for chickies, especially after taking meds... my adults eat it up as a treat!

 

[Wolf-Kim]

I don't know how they are doing. She lives a few miles away and we really don't talk all that much. We'll call to ask each other questions or favors and what not. I'm going to give her a few days and call back.

No, they are not able to get away from mosquitoes. They are outside in a hardwire cloth pen. The have a heat lamp on one end "just in case" they get cold.

I did stop by today and she showed me the chicks. She has already pulled the older birds out(the Rhode Island Whites) so the Dorkings and Dominiques were among the biggest ones left in there. She has less than 20, so I don't think competition is the issue.

She said she thought it seemed like coccidiosis, but she thought because she fed medicated chick food that she was already protected.

-Kim