Shipping is very hard on chicks.So I am getting a little upset and maybe it’s par for the course. I noticed one of the gals had pasty bum. Last night and cleared it out. Saw the bum pulsing and she pooped on me. Which was awesome because I knew it was clear.
Today she was NOT ok. Labored breathing, just like the past gal that passed. Checked her again and no pasty bum, but I knew she was critical because she looked just like the chick from the other day.
Long story short I checked her today and she was dead and foaming at the mouth.
My flock started as 8 and is now down to 5. One dying in shipping. One just a rough shipping and I assume this one was maybe I didn’t catch the pasty bum quick enough.
My frustration is I now have another bird that don’t sticking with the flock now. She also had pasty bum. Hard clump that I cleared. No poop. But she is staying under the brooder warmer.
I feel I am missing something. I got rid of the heat lamp and got the brooder radiator. The chicks now have electrolytes in their water. I have a starter chick feed.
The temp under the brooder radiator is 94 degrees.
What can I change? Loosing chicks is destroying me.
Do you have a waterer with just plain water along with the one with electrolytes?
I would raise the brooder plate up one notch in the front and leave the level where it is in the back.
Do you have any Poultry Nutri-drench? Try giving the the weak one a drop to the side of her beak and let it wick in. She may not make it though.