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It is done in some commercial hatcheries were they sell hens to laying hybrid farmers who sell the eggs as ‘no killing of male chicks involved’. It goes approximately like this: On day 9-11 in the incubation they stick a very fine needle in the eggs, sucks out a drop of liquid and put in a tube...

I think you are right that it could have a disease that infected all chickens, but didn’t kill them all. The survivors are the strongest ones, probably immune now, and its very well possible they can free range again without getting sick. @BankFam probably knows for sure if she tries to free...

Sorry for your loss. Did he escape? What did the neighbour say?

Did you by any chance buy plants from the store that might have contained herbicides/pesticides? Do you use herbicides/pesticides or fertiliser in your garden? I know of someone who had sick chickens after laying grass rolls for a new lawn. She just didn’t realise the grass contained a lot of...

My garden is full of daffodils right now. My chickens do not eat them. We also have a few hydrangeas, lots of ivy and probably more poisonous plants. Maybe they have tasted/tried them once. But Im sure no chicken died from eating them.

Okay. My chickens have ivy in the run. It never caused s any problems The chickens never eat it. But there is always chicken feed if they are hungry.

I never heard this before. Do you have a link to a research to confirm this? Are you talking about laying hybrids? I never had crop issues with my flock (6-9 bantam chickens for 10 years). They free range sometimes but are confined to a net covered run most of the time. I just don’t feed them...

:hugsMany (most) chicken keepers makes mistakes in the first couple of years. Most of us learn and improve in caring and feeding in the right way. Good not to give up now. It will get better! I know how hard it is to loose chickens too because I made mistakes too. E.g. The first year I had...

I heard people say before that long grass can be a problem, but I think this is only a problem when you cut it and give to the chickens in the run. If my chickens free range they nibble on grass and pick the fresh ones out. And I give it often on days the chickens cant free range. But I always...

It’s no problem for a chicken to pick up pieces of safety glas to digest their food instead of the usual grit. If the mice died of rat poison or were weakened by it, it is possible that the chickens found a few and ate them. Chickens love to eat meat. And the rat poison accumulates...