This is my first time raring chickens, and I started out with 30 Broilers, and 15 Cockerels. So far, 12 of the 30 Broilers have died. I have done everything. I keep the place clean, make sure they are in a well ventilated place, change their water almost every hour, give them their antibiotics/medicine when needed, change their saw dust every 2-3 days, but they just keep dying. I would check them before going to bed, and when I wake up, I would see one dead. I have gone back to where I bought it, and they keep prescribing one drug or the other...I keep buying, but they keep dying. What should I do?


I am thinking maybe the chicks I bought are not a strong breed or something, cos everytime I go there, I always meet someone else there complaining that their chickens are dying too.

At this point, I am nolonger concerned about profits again, I am just concerned with how to put an end to all these agonizing emotional pain of having to bury the chickens almost every three days.


Please, I will need comments from experts, and anybody that has some information that can help. Thank you.

Maybe you should Switch to another chicks seller

ty265:
Maybe you should Switch to another chicks seller

I don't get. You mean when I sell this ones off, I should switch to another chicks seller when I am going to buy the new batch? Well, that is what I already had in mind. I am just thinking of how I am going to handle the ones on ground right now.

Lemme post some solutions i got frm a site through google
broilers should be on a high protein meat builder type of feed. We let them run themselves out of food each night about 7:00 or so but make sure they have water available. This helps to keep them from outgrowing what their legs can take. Offer them grit free choice at about day 3. Otherwise, we don't treat our broilers any differently than our other chicks. We allow ours to range and grow out a bit more slowly but it seems to help with the leg problems. Broilers do tend to sit around more so if you have room, make them work a bit for their food by setting it away from where they rest or adding scratch grains for them to forage for. I have also noticed that broilers seem to get hotter than other birds. By week three they should be at about 75-80 degrees. I hope something helps. It isn't any fun to lose birds.

Hi all, the first corish x's we raised, we fed too much and we were told by the place we bought them from, that they were having heart attacks. I was out there one day and one chick just killed over dead. Slow down your feeding , we were keeping the feeders full all the time and we wre killing them, they just sat there and ate and died. Call the place you got them from and ask how much food per chick at this age, they should have a formula of some kind to go by. So much feed- per chic -per day. Good luck

Hi, I had the same problem these past few weeks with my Cornish X Rocks that I purchased from Murray McMurray. I lost 12 out of 50! I was so upset. I called Murray three times. McMurray's answer was that they got too stressed during shipping. I finally decided that there was too much activity where I had them and moved them to a more quiet area. This stopped the deaths. Like you, I had them warm enough, no drafts, plenty of water, etc. Those big birds are subject to heart attacks and I've had some grown ones that did keel over and die for no reason.
So, my suggestion is to move them to a quiet place and see if that works

ty265:
Hi, I had the same problem these past few weeks with my Cornish X Rocks that I purchased from Murray McMurray. I lost 12 out of 50! I was so upset. I called Murray three times. McMurray's answer was that they got too stressed during shipping. I finally decided that there was too much activity where I had them and moved them to a more quiet area. This stopped the deaths. Like you, I had them warm enough, no drafts, plenty of water, etc. Those big birds are subject to heart attacks and I've had some grown ones that did keel over and die for no reason.
So, my suggestion is to move them to a quiet place and see if that works

Why is this so? I mean, the heart attacks? I would see them all running around one minute, and I would leave for a while, and come back, and see one with its legs up in the air...dead. I mean, no sign at all, they just drop dead like that. I will try and move them to a more quiet place, and feed them less as someone suggested above.

B

Alright bro. I hope the rest chicks survive......more solutions here hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=004wSv
Backyardchickens.yuku.com/topic/14836

santislim8:
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How did you find your way to "Agriculture" section?

ty265:
Alright bro. I hope the rest chicks survive......more solutions here hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=004wSv
Backyardchickens.yuku.com/topic/14836

Thanks.

op, have they stopped dying?

miqos02:
op, have they stopped dying?

The last one died on Saturday...no death since then. But I don't like how they open their mouths and breathe heavy like asmathic patient having an attack.

@op, how old are your birds?

Did you completed their vaccines?

Base on your subsequent posts, I could deduced that your birds are probably suffering from 'Sudden death syndrome'(heart attack). It has no cure(vaccine) as the causes is not yet know or be ascertained.

The best thing to do to minimize your mortality rate is to reduce their feed intake and increase their water. Don't give them food in the afternoon, and you can also add multivatamin to their water for 3 consecutive days. Also, make their house to be more ventilated.

But if they are below 3 weeks, I can suggest you a drug to control the situation.

In your post up here there's actually nothing wrong with your management except for where you said you change the bedding (wood shavings) in three days, I guess it could be a respiratory disease due to the presence of dusts present within the material. For now live the beddings unchanged for like 3 weeks, it is advisable to only change the beddings when they starts forming cakes.

Tmex:
In your post up here there's actually nothing wrong with your management except for where you said you change the bedding (wood shavings) in three days, I guess it could be a respiratory disease due to the presence of dusts present within the material. For now live the beddings unchanged for like 3 weeks, it is advisable to only change the beddings when they starts forming cakes.

Hmm! You have a point...I guess it is a respiratory disease...cos they usually breathe like they are having an asthmatic attack. Thanks for the addition. I was just trying to make the place neat since people say hygiene is a big deal with broilers, that's why I change the wood shaving every 3 days.

kay29000:


Hmm! You have a point...I guess it is a respiratory disease...cos they usually breathe like they are having an asthmatic attack. Thanks for the addition. I was just trying to make the place neat since people say hygiene is a big deal with broilers, that's why I change the wood shaving every 3 days.

just live the beddings and give them multivitamin successively for about 3 days they should get well.

Tmex:
just live the beddings and give them multivitamin successively for about 3 days they should get well.

Thanks once again.

[color=#990000][/color] my day old broilers got soaked in water tru their drinking cans due to power failure via midnite,over 30 got pretty soaked,was able to rescue them at abt 3.am and since then i noticed 1 dead in d evening around 7p.m,wat marvel me is dat d dead bird didn't look sick,could it be as a result of heat stress or heart atack? Wat should i do to prevent next mortality thanx.

Pls ask him.....I need help. Over 350 chicks, 3mnths old now.Keep dying. Having less than 70 left. I'm thinking of selling them all off during Xmas including d layers?

kay29000:
This is my first time raring chickens, and I started out with 30 Broilers, and 15 Cockerels. So far, 12 of the 30 Broilers have died. I have done everything. I keep the place clean, make sure they are in a well ventilated place, change their water almost every hour, give them their antibiotics/medicine when needed, change their saw dust every 2-3 days, but they just keep dying. I would check them before going to bed, and when I wake up, I would see one dead. I have gone back to where I bought it, and they keep prescribing one drug or the other...I keep buying, but they keep dying. What should I do?


I am thinking maybe the chicks I bought are not a strong breed or something, cos everytime I go there, I always meet someone else there complaining that their chickens are dying too.

At this point, I am nolonger concerned about profits again, I am just concerned with how to put an end to all these agonizing emotional pain of having to bury the chickens almost every three days.


Please, I will need comments from experts, and anybody that has some information that can help. Thank you.

You are having a case of coccidiocis outbreak, have you observe their poo? Mine are recovering now after treating wit amprolium and megadox N, observe d poo and their eating habit and report back.

kioboy:


You are having a case of coccidiocis outbreak, have you observe their poo? Mine are recovering now after treating wit amprolium and megadox N, observe d poo and their eating habit and report back.

The post was so long ago. I am so glad I am better at rearing chickens now. That was such an agonizing time for me. Right now, I am trying out Noilers...and so far so good with them. 6 Weeks...and none of the 102 chicks have died. I hope to keep it that way.

kay29000:


The post was so long ago. I am so glad I am better at rearing chickens now. That was such an agonizing time for me. Right now, I am trying out Noilers...and so far so good with them. 6 Weeks...and none of the 102 chicks have died. I hope to keep it that way.

pls is Der a different BTW Noiler and broiler?

Alennsar:


pls is Der a different BTW Noiler and broiler?

Yes. Noilers are a new hybrid of chickens that are as rugged as local chickens, and yet grow almost as big as Broilers. Noilers come in all colors you can think of...white, brown, black, black and white, brownish red, etc.

Broilers on the other hand are white heavy chickens that grow pretty fast.

Noilers reach maturity in 11-14 weeks. Broilers reach maturity in 8-12 weeks.

kay29000:


Yes. Noilers are a new hybrid of chickens that are as rugged as local chickens, and yet grow almost as big as Broilers. Noilers come in all colors you can think of...white, brown, black, black and white, brownish red, etc.

Broilers on the other hand are white heavy chickens that grow pretty fast.

Noilers reach maturity in 11-14 weeks. Broilers reach maturity in 8-12 weeks.

thanks a lot. I will try dat. Noiler soon.