Rural Gardening: People with sick chicks from McMurray, 1 by Tammy

Tammy wrote:
This is sounding very good.

Yes - I am giving them orange slices. I just bought a big bag
on sale on the way home. (I tested yesterday to see if they would
eat them and they LOVE them).

My DH put the perches in for them after I read about the idea
somewhere on my travels on the internet searching for info on
AE. The first one seems to be too low but the second one (maybe 6"
off the ground) is a big hit.

And the one little chick that was hit by the *I assume* AE is the last
of her type. There were two or three but they died.

I got a total of 35 chicks. In all, 10 died. The first 1 died the first
night (Mon night), 2-3 died overnight, 4 died on Tues or Tues night.
The two that died after that lasted about a week and then first one
and then the other got really wobbly, couldn't stand, didn't eat much
etc until they fell over on their sides and died. So I don't know if I
lost more than 2 to the *I assume* AE or if some of the first 8 also
died of this. (They were in the same position as the later deaths).

We got a refund for the first 8 at the price of the most expensive one
we ordered.

And since the photo was a hit (I think) here's another one.

Tam