Why did I loose a chick???

[chickenexpert55]

I got a few wyondottes the other day, and they were just fine, until I found one flipped over. I looked at her, and she seemed fine, but the next day, she passed away! So sad! Does anyone know what happened?

 

[theoldchick]

How old was she?

 

[chickenexpert55]

3 days old. The day after she was shpped to my home.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Shipping can be rough on tiny chicks. Did you give them any supplements to help with shipping stress?

 

[chickenexpert55]

Yes.

 

[theoldchick]

Occasionally this does happen. The stress of shipping is too much for them, especially if the chick had a difficult hatch. Keep an eye on the other chicks. Make sure all of them are eating and drinking. Add a chick electrolyte supplement to the water. Make sure the temperature is where it should be and there is good ventilation. A picture of your set-up may help.

This product works great! Though unflavored Gatorade will work in an emergency.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Might just be a one-off, a chick that didn't handle being shipped as well as the others. Or it could've had some other preexisting health issue. I assume you also have been checking for pasty butt?

 

[chickenexpert55]

The reason this is so sad is because She was just fine 5 minutes before she passed.

 

[chickenexpert55]

The good thing is today I got 10 Buff Orpingtons from a family owned farm. And I took them home myself. better to do it that way. But the batch the one-off came from was shipped from Cleveland, Ohio.

 

[Aapomp831]

Check and make sure she didn’t have pasty butt....