What are the reasons for high chick mortality?

When raising chicks, the thing people fear most is the sudden death of chicks, but there are actually only a few causes of death. In many cases, persistently high mortality is basically caused by the following problems. Let's take a look below and see which reasons have been affecting everyone's farming returns.

1. Many pathogens

Chicks have poor resistance, and their protection against pathogens can be said to be almost nonexistent, relying entirely on the farmer's own awareness of disease prevention for protection. However, many farmers actually do not pay attention to the hygiene of chicks, such as allowing manure to accumulate, allowing outside animals to enter, and so on. These are relatively easy causes of inducing disease, because they can all become sources of pathogens. So when raising them, if you find that the chick mortality rate remains high, everyone had better check the hygiene conditions of their chicken coop and see how it is, or carry out a disinfection to see how effective it is and whether the mortality rate is still that high.

2. Temperature factors

Temperature is also a relatively common problem. This is mainly divided into two aspects: one is excessively high temperature, and the other is excessively low temperature. Both will significantly increase chick mortality. Low temperature is generally caused by inadequate warmth retention, while relatively fast air circulation leads to lower temperatures. If active chicks no longer like to move, then you can try raising the temperature a bit, because this may be a sign of low temperature. With high temperature, you will find that the chicks are unwilling to huddle together and are relatively restless, and when you touch them with your hand, you will clearly find that their body temperature is on the high side. This is the impact of temperature on chicks. To reduce mortality, you must do a good job of temperature control.

3. Incorrect medication use

Many chicks actually do not perform very well at the beginning, looking like poor-quality chicks, and farmers generally choose to use medication for this kind of situation. Chicks need attention when it comes to medication, because they are not suited to frequent use of drugs. For many small problems, if farmers adjust their raising methods, the chicks will recover on their own, and medication is not necessarily required. If medication is used as soon as problems are found in chicks, then over time mortality will also increase, because their resistance to pathogens has been dragged down by the drugs. This is the high mortality caused by nonstandard medication use.

4. Constitution factors

This reason is not easy to explain, because chicks vary from good to bad, and everyone does not know exactly how the chicks they bought are doing, but those with poor constitution will certainly die in greater numbers. Due to reasons such as incubation, transport, and rearing, chicks with poor constitution find it hard to adapt to various changes, and if you are even slightly careless, it will cause them to become maladapted, and then gradually worsen. Such chicks themselves also recover relatively slowly, and in the end, with the accumulation of various effects, their mortality rate naturally goes up. This depends on everyone's own ability to select chick breeds. When buying, look at the seedlings from several sellers.

The above are some reasons for high chick mortality. In the process of raising them, it is very difficult to achieve not a single death. What everyone can do is only reduce the mortality rate, especially when raising them in batches. When faced with high mortality, we should find the cause and prescribe the right remedy!