Posts by rooster-red

Rumors of my demize are in error.Hi to all my BYC friends, been a long time.

Thank you to everyone, my chickens now all have great homes, just a few pending pick up.Now if I can just find my cats homes.

Don't scrape them. Just keep vasaline coated on their legs and it will smother the mites and they will fall off and give the scales a chance to heal.

Doesn't matter if you have a rooster or not the hens will lay the same either way.

I still have some of my chickens left.Hens:1 Buff minorca1 Blue Andalusion1 Silver spangled hamburg1 White leghorn1 Brown leghornRoosters:1 big RIR1 BO1 Giant cochinNone of my roosters are man fighters, you can turn your back on them...

http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1638#p1638 This should help.

It sounds to me like she was having cardiac issues and the extra stress of molting may have sped up the inevitible.