Thenewgoat
Chirping
- Sep 3, 2016
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Okay so with Easter just passing I fell for the baby chicks at Tractor Supply. So in my area if they do not sell the chicks by 3 days old they mark them down very low in price. I started off with 10 chicks at regular price 3.14 each then found them on sale for 0.50 so i got 18 more. The next time I went to get feed and the lady recognized me and told me she would sell me as many as I wanted for what ever i offered her so i payed $20 for 65 chicks that put me at 93 chicks. Well they had there last load of birds come in and started them at 0.50 and I had called to see if they had ducks they told me no but they had 20 chicks so i told them to hold them and i would come get them I mean what is 20 more at this point. I get there and they have 4 large boxes ready for me and i start looking and it said 64 chicks on one box 15 on one box and 2 boxes with 17 ducks and a box of 3 ducks. so 37 ducks and 172 chicks. So with some of the first ones we had some get sick fluffed up and stopped eating we lost out of them 24 chicks not good I have no clue what happened I had them under multiple lights and had 5 waters and 5 feeders two large tanks for them and so now they are going on 9 weeks old no light and are outside on the ground in their own little pen. The last ones i got are only a few days old and the people at the store threw all the sick chicks they had in the back in my box so now i am losing chicks and i don't know why. They will look fine and a couple hours later they will be on their side and cant stand and die with in 5 hours of getting sick we have lost 6 in 3 days. What could it be they are bantams so really small they have heat food water i tried save a chick and have medicated feed. I move the sick immediately but how do i stop it.
Are you using medicated chick starter?
