BlackSheepWhiteFeathers
In the Brooder
- Mar 29, 2020
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I’ve started to lose chicks one by one since they turned 7 days old, they started to get pasty butt a few days after I’d gotten them when they were around 4 days old, starting with the White Marans, and then later my Buff Brahma (which was the spunkiest most vigorous chick).
The smallest go first, they’re eating and drinking until I see one get small and sits tiredly and exhausted with eyes closed and the next day passes, I can always notice which one will go the next day by the way they act.
Their feces is sometimes foamy in consistency, or watery. They seem to be eating and drinking well, and I’m refilling the water and food and cleaning the brooder daily as well as the food and water dishes twice daily. I’ve been washing their butts as well when I see some with pasty butts, but they’re still not plumping up, even the large ones seem underweight. I’ve raised hundreds of chicks and I have never came across this problem.
The night before last was a particularly bad night for all of them and I gave them water mixed with diatomaceous earth at night, they drank it up and I refilled with water in the morning, they seemed to all perk up after that and even start to do the “chicken run” with the feathers out and start to clean themselves and look happy for the first time ever. I didn’t give it to them the next night and they seem to slowly get droopy but still eat and drink, another one is looking particularly small again and it’s eyes closed chirping small quiet chirps, I can tell it’s suffering and not feeling good. After that I put in another mix of diatomaceous earth with water for their night time water tonight to see if it will help, although I think when I wake up the smaller chick will be gone when I wake up.
I think they obviously have a stomach bug, and I was researching coccidiosis and it seems like my chickens show similar symptoms.
I told Meyer Hatchery about the chicks and they told me they probably picked it from the environment here and to call some environment agency to help figure it out. I find that hard to believe as I don’t have any chickens right now, the place I keep the chicks is a large fish tank that has been soaked in bleach, rinsed with scalding hot water, scrubbed with dish soap, rinsed with scalding hot water, Clorox wiped down, and then windexed... the chicks had no contact with any environment other birds have come into contact with and I have no other animals at the moment. I’ve decided I am not using Meyer Hatchery anymore, or large scale hatcheries.
I’m a little worried.... has anyone had this problem and fixed it? I feel like I’m going to lose my chicks one by one, they fade away one by one. I’m hoping the diatomaceous earth works for perking them up again, and if it does I will keep giving it to them every night until I see them making a good gain and thriving well.
The smallest go first, they’re eating and drinking until I see one get small and sits tiredly and exhausted with eyes closed and the next day passes, I can always notice which one will go the next day by the way they act.
Their feces is sometimes foamy in consistency, or watery. They seem to be eating and drinking well, and I’m refilling the water and food and cleaning the brooder daily as well as the food and water dishes twice daily. I’ve been washing their butts as well when I see some with pasty butts, but they’re still not plumping up, even the large ones seem underweight. I’ve raised hundreds of chicks and I have never came across this problem.
The night before last was a particularly bad night for all of them and I gave them water mixed with diatomaceous earth at night, they drank it up and I refilled with water in the morning, they seemed to all perk up after that and even start to do the “chicken run” with the feathers out and start to clean themselves and look happy for the first time ever. I didn’t give it to them the next night and they seem to slowly get droopy but still eat and drink, another one is looking particularly small again and it’s eyes closed chirping small quiet chirps, I can tell it’s suffering and not feeling good. After that I put in another mix of diatomaceous earth with water for their night time water tonight to see if it will help, although I think when I wake up the smaller chick will be gone when I wake up.
I think they obviously have a stomach bug, and I was researching coccidiosis and it seems like my chickens show similar symptoms.
I told Meyer Hatchery about the chicks and they told me they probably picked it from the environment here and to call some environment agency to help figure it out. I find that hard to believe as I don’t have any chickens right now, the place I keep the chicks is a large fish tank that has been soaked in bleach, rinsed with scalding hot water, scrubbed with dish soap, rinsed with scalding hot water, Clorox wiped down, and then windexed... the chicks had no contact with any environment other birds have come into contact with and I have no other animals at the moment. I’ve decided I am not using Meyer Hatchery anymore, or large scale hatcheries.
I’m a little worried.... has anyone had this problem and fixed it? I feel like I’m going to lose my chicks one by one, they fade away one by one. I’m hoping the diatomaceous earth works for perking them up again, and if it does I will keep giving it to them every night until I see them making a good gain and thriving well.
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