Hello! Thanks for checking in! I've lost 3 of my original 4 hen flock. One 7yo survivor! Along the way I got a Bantam (two, but one got killed by a hawk) and she's had quite the life... She got broody some weeks ago because a rodent started storing whole pecans in her nest and she started...
Thank you. Not really, I suspect it was a coccidiosis relapse but I'm not really sure, I'm amateur at best. The mites are under control and the rest of the flock seems to be doing well, but now I have three grown Barnevelders and two tiny Bantams, not a lot of integration happening.
I just buried my second Ayam Cemani pullet, which I got as a 12-week old pullet about a month ago.
Her sister died a week after I got her, I found her dead in the coop, her pose stroke me; she was contorted with her head and neck thrown back, her wings slightly opened and her legs stretched...
Thank you so much for your reply. She is in a dog crate with roosting bars and mulch on as floor Inside the chicken coop. They have been able to “free range” inside the chicken coop during the day (while the grown hens are out in the yard) I started giving her my layer feed, non-gmo nature crest...
Hello. I adopted last Friday two Ayam Cemani 8 week old pullets. They were doing okay but two days ago they started to act a bit strange, they were eating and drinking but one specially was constatly fluffed up with her head close to her body, but still moving around. She was dead this morning...
Hello worm-farmers! Newbie here.
I started with about 1000 three weeks ago and had to leave town for 10 days (the worms were an unexpected gift) I placed them in a small drawer set with oats and two veggies per drawer, upon my return it was full of mold, now I'm sorting the live ones to a clean...
I'm glad your girl is doing better, the treatment seems to be having a positive effect in mine, their vents look better already. I'm so distraught to have caused one to die :( tough learning.
Thank you SO much!
For those ten days I prepared different "lunches" for them, and I realize now this is a fatal mistake, even though I tried to prepare them good food (I would mix lightly cooked quinoa, lentils, peas, and mix with flax, chia, oatmeal, plus give them fruit and other kitchen...
One of my 4 two-year-old Barnevelders died suddenly yesterday. She had not exhibit any sign of sickness, her behavior and coat was fine. That prompr me to examine the rest of the flock today and even though they are all looking and acting normal they seem to all have some mild diarrhea or a sort...
Hi. My chickens seem to be experiencing something similar. One died yesterday which prompt me to examine them all, they have pasty butts, smelly diarrhea, one of them a swollen vent. Let me know if you find anything. I just hope itsi not a virus going around?