Posts by delfargo

i am having the same problem with the "bare butt". my question is this - if it were mites, wouldn't ALL my chix have this "missing feather" problem? only about half of my 27 chix are missing the rear-end feathers, so...

i just had the same thing happen this weekend. my first chicken death. only 9 months old.she was in the coop acting totally normal, when i went back to the coop a few hours later - dead!just laying there on the floor, dead as doornail....

NO HELP?anyone?...hello?

well, this is not really an "emergency", but i figured this was the place to post this.i've noticed several of my hens are developing big bald spots on thier butts, below the "vent" area.i've done a little searching...

well, what used to be an abusive rooster is now a nice looking bag of meat in my fridge.the whole experience was not as bad as i'd feared. "the dork", as we call him, was less freaked out that i thought he'd be, alot less...

my plan is to put the feed up out of reach tonight, so he's not eating tomorrow morning before i get in there (which will inconvenience the girls, but they'll get over it - i'll put the feeders back down after the roo is out of there)...

o.k... i am ready to do this tomorrow. in my original post, i said the rooster on death row (dork) had never come at me, but this morning when i was cleaning the poop board under the roosts, i heard a ruckus in the the other room. dork...

thanx all for the input. i plan on doing the deed on saturday morning, so i still have plenty of time to read more about it and get ready.thanx for the heads-up on the sharp knife, cmv, my kitchen is famous for dull knives. i'll get a...

i have 2 roosters (not by choice) and 26 hens. they are all approx. 8 months old. one rooster (lakenvelder) is an aggressive jerk towards me, but is sweet with the hens. the other rooster (dorking) is totally fine with me. sure, he's...

thanx for the reminder, critter - safety first. figured i'd hold him down on the ground by his neck. bullet should go through his head and lodge in the soil. then cut the throat to drain him.not looking forward to it, but he's tearing up...