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I just learned (again....I was reminded I was told this 10 years ago too) that most commercial raisers plan for a 5-15% loss in their chicks.

We got chickens in July of last year. We lost 3 chicks, one to an accident and two to unexplained death. We hatched them ourselves. Two were lost last fall, one a couple weeks ago. We have hatched lots of chicks since July, and I calculated our death rate at like 8%or something like that...