ZZ's I don't have the answer, but, remember just a few days ago I commented on Karbears thread about loosing almost all my new birds, and I thought it was some kind of virus from the Hatchery?
Well I took JeanMarie's advice and contacted them. I spoke with a supervisor for about thirty minutes. She was very nice and she said, OK I'm going to tell you straight up you never got any birds from us with a virus. Then she said were going to go day by day and solve your problem if your willing to listen. I said Grreat.
As we were going through that day by day proccess I remembered we had had a wind storm and power outage. I started up my back up generator and my grandson hooked up the lights for everything. The next morning I went out and found out he had hooked up all the lights except the heat lamp for the babies. Eight were dead, I hooked up the heat lamp immed, and the babies remaining seemed to warm up and were looking good. about four days after that they started droping like flies and one day six died. Out of thirty-nine I had six left and still doing well.
The supervisor then told me she'd been there thirty-five years and after finding no signs of sickness at all. She said you birds died of delayed shock from that night with no heat. I told her I had a hard time believing they coud die three weeks after the fact. She assured my she had seen it many times. Even at professional farms. I'm only telling you this because my birds would not eat, we tried force feeding, we brought them in and put them by the oven. They all died and my wife and I spent Hours and Hours trying to fix them. I wish you luck my dear but If they won't eat, won't drink? It saddens me. Why didn't they leave them alone in the wild? I was fortunate. They replaced the birds for the third time. Haystack
