Whats your Mortality rate. When and Why?

[shadowpaints]

we have 30 Cornish crosses. we havent lost one yet.. knock on wood lol. we have been lucky and only lost 2 of our sexlink pullets and one silky. the place we got the cornish crosses from said to be prepared to lose a few.. lol but they are doing great! i just kicked em outside earlier this week. and they are flurishing!

 

[tonini3059]

I did a batch this spring and I had 10% losses. Only one died as a chick, the others died from coccidiosis I believe. They would be fine then we would get a cold rainy day and two would die, so I treated with probiotics, the sun came out and everything was fine. Then another cold rainy day and the same thing happened. I heard this was common for pastured poultry, especially in that type of weather. Hope this helps.

 

[Brunty_Farms]

I've been doing this for about 10 years now and this batch I have lost 30 out of 200. Makes me really upset as I'm now booked until August doing 200 every 2 weeks.... so every bird counts.... and every bird takes a toll on my profits.

Bottom line it just happens, it's hard to control their environment and these birds are very fickle to change in temperature, surroundings, feed, ect.....

They are bred to be in commercial operations where every thing is state of the art..... dirty as hell.... but still state of the art. They are not designed to for backyard producers which makes them tough.

Keep doing what your doing and try to learn the best you can from your mistakes.

 

[justpete]

I expect 100% mortality tomorrow as long as it doesn't rain.

Processing day.