I went to check on my chics this morning and one of my Cornish X was dead under the heat lamp with a bleeding backside. Several of the other chics had blood all over their butts too. They have two brooder lights and plenty of room, I don't know why it happened. Starting a homestead is wonderful but death, on many different levels is something that is constantly challenging my psyche because it is so in my face. Dieing critters, processing my animals, the list goes on...and so shall I.
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Mon, April 21, 2008 - 8:17 AMOh my gosh. How terrible. I'm so sorry for your loss. I have never heard of such a thing...sigh...the death part of having chickens is awful. -
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Mon, April 21, 2008 - 9:01 PMThis sounds like cannibalism. If your chicks are pecking each other you will have to isolate the culprit. I have found that two days in isolation usually cures them. -
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Mon, April 21, 2008 - 9:10 PMno, I am hesitant to respond because I don't have the right answers at the moment, but I had bought a ton of eggs one year on ebay, the chicks came down with a bloody stool thing, some with blood coming out of their back bottoms. It was a "something", sorry no help and I'm probably making this worse.
but if they are under a lamp, you don't see any hostile activity amongst them I'm thinking its a contagious virus, disease or something....
I know I sound like an idiot but I must have lost about 30 small chicklets one year because they all caught the same thing. I'm hoping you don't' have it.
Sulmet worked on the last ten surviving semi chicks/half grown.
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