What do I need to keep on hand....

Nothing really unless they get sick!

 

I'd get a bottle of Corid or Sulmet just in case for Cocci. You don't want to have to find it after the fact.

 

i keep poly-vi-sol on hand always. i use it on weak babies and i also use it on adults. I cured a serama hen with wry neck by using it.

 

I posted this same question before we got chicks and never really got an answer. I did find the polyvisol. It doesn't say without iron, but it doesn't say with iron either, my pharm had to order it and I need to look up the technical term for iron I guess. Would corid OR sulmet do or is one better than the other? Anything else you would recommend? Thanks to the OP!

 

As long as you have plenty of fresh water and med. chicken starter you should be ok if there are 2 weeks old you should be in the clear, normally you would start losing baby chicks the first few days after they arrived , but seeing the 2 weeks you should be ok as long as you have a heat lamp and in a draft free place ,

I just received 100 chickens and turkeys these last few days and hatch out almost 25 more myself , and I only lost 4 the first day or two there are almost a week old and are all looking great
You should be GOOD

Now as for you what you will need well for me is a fresh cold case of beer in the refrigerator at all times That’s what I do and have




good luck

 

I woulds say by a month old you won't have any worries they are healthy after that month then they will be safe I worried for the first month on all of mine but after that I don't so much I do to a point and I do count them every morning and night when I feed them or put them to bed it is the only time I can count them they are not moving lol.


Good Luck to you

 

No need to treat -- one loosish stool is very common. Are your chicks outside? Look up common diseases -- things like cocci, wry neck, sour crop, bumble foot, mites, lice and see what the causes are (an ounce of prevention...) and the most effective cures. You certainly don't want to dose birds with medications unnecessarily.

Here is something I see on this board all the time -- people buying new birds from essentially unknown sources (flea markets, swap meets, cousin's step-neighbor-in-law) and not quarantining the new birds from the existing flock, yet having the nerve to be shocked and surprised that the new birds brought some pernicious disease into the mix. Entire flocks have been wiped out this way.

At two weeks chances that your hatchery birds have something is slim... lest they are outside where they can get things from the ground or from wild birds.

Jenny