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Jill

  • Joined Sep 2014
  • aberdeenshire
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week old chicks just died same day ??
« on: September 24, 2016, 09:08:11 pm »
does anyone know what could have caused my two apparently healthy guinea fowl chicks to die on the same day they were under heat lamp and eating chick crumbs ...yesterday fine today dead

Eve

  • Joined Jul 2010
Re: week old chicks just died same day ??
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2016, 09:12:09 pm »
Coccidiosis? It doesn't necessarily include bloody faeces, can easily happen without any blood.

greenbeast

  • Joined Jul 2014
Re: week old chicks just died same day ??
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2016, 09:38:29 pm »
agreed, we lost a bunch in quick succession last month, no particular evidence

Marches Farmer

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Herefordshire
Re: week old chicks just died same day ??
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2016, 10:33:12 am »
Cocci most likely.  I raise chicks in a new cardboard box with fresh shavings changed every few days.  Keets are notoriously fragile for the first few weeks - quite different from when they're mature.

Jill

  • Joined Sep 2014
  • aberdeenshire
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Re: week old chicks just died same day ??
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2016, 07:37:40 pm »
thanks folks ...it helps to know what it might be

 

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