I'm thinking 18 mos. to 2 years. There are so many illnesses and treatments.
Some stuff isn't medical, it's behavioral. Most recently, I was contemplating sending a very expensive rooster to freezer camp because he is overly aggressive towards another very docile rooster. I was researching...
TY. Once I got everything under control I got angry. I've been researching and working on writing a book.
I figured out the problem, misinformation. Two more died before I realized the culprit and I lost one more to the treatment and two of my Silkie Roosters developed wryneck.
It was...
This week has been hard on me and my flock. I went to a wedding out of town & when I came home the next day I found one of my favorite hens Desiree, dead in the coop. Apparently she had been eggbound with shellless eggs for a week.
I panicked that I hadn't been attentive and inspected all my...