She has been sneezing, has bubbles in her eyes, has a very bad smell coming from her beak, her face is pale, she has discharge coming from her nostrils and has not been laying
Recently I noticed that one of my hens has discharge covering her eyes and she has a runny nose. I went to have another look at her and I noticed her face is very pale compared to her wattles and there is a really bad smell coming off her that I have never got before. She is two or three years...
This with chicken wire as well. The enclosure is two of these long and one wide, the body was on one side the head on the other and the body wasn't near the wire. We have buzzards around and that was my first suspicion but we hadn't seen any around that day, and they aren't much bigger than the...
We dont own a gun but our neighbour would be out the back on the lookout for any foxes with a shotgun on his lap. Foxes usually dont last long if they are going after our chickens
Then it is very possible as we have seen a fox skulking around and it has taken some of our neighbours birds
They can get very cocky, the things can't they.
Im from Ireland so it is definitely not a racoon as we dont have them here.
That was our first suspect but we cant figure out how it got in because there were no holes dug under and the fence is over two meters high.
This attack happened at about four in the afternoon, and we are planning on...
We recently got a silkie rooster to breed with our little silkie pullet. Today we went on a walk and when we got back we passed the chicken coop and all the chickens were huddled around the back off the coop and when we went to investigate we found the roosters body, without any head. He had...