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Question for you good folks. This has never happened to me, as we've always gotten our chicks from friends who have chickens, so everything is done as nature intended. Two weeks ago my boyfriend's mother orders chickens (because the ones that were eaten weren't enough of a lesson for her). She gets 28 baby chicks waiting in the post office for her. Her son, my boyfriend, fetches them and puts them out of their little travel postal crate and into the wide open air wire enclosure. Gives them food, gives them water. Leave. We come back. Hell, the swarm trampled one little chick, and s/he's gone and drowned in the tiny dish of water. Ew. It is removed. We leave, and about 35 minutes into our driving trip else where, we get a text. It's from his sister: "Six of the chicks died." "What?" I text back," What happened?" "I don't know. I'm gonna throw them out once they stop twitching." What exactly happened here? It wasn't a drowning, like in the chick we first saw. It couldn't have been warmth issues. Why were there chick deaths ?? I ::never:: had that happen to me.
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