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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Jill on September 24, 2016, 09:08:11 pm

Title: week old chicks just died same day ??
Post by: Jill 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

Title: Re: week old chicks just died same day ??
Post by: Eve on September 24, 2016, 09:12:09 pm

Coccidiosis? It doesn't necessarily include bloody faeces, can easily happen without any blood.

Title: Re: week old chicks just died same day ??
Post by: greenbeast on September 24, 2016, 09:38:29 pm

agreed, we lost a bunch in quick succession last month, no particular evidence

Title: Re: week old chicks just died same day ??
Post by: Marches Farmer 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.

Title: Re: week old chicks just died same day ??
Post by: Jill on September 25, 2016, 07:37:40 pm

thanks folks ...it helps to know what it might be