We made it safe and even had one of the girls lay an egg!
Everyone I tell about this laughs their butts off when they picture me in a VW GTI with three chickens in a cardboard box and a Beagle in the front seat. It was pretty hilarious! At one point they all escaped the box and were perched on...
I am moving to Auburn in the next week, from San Diego, and I had my fingers crossed that I could keep my girls! We have 3 chickens. Good to know, thanks!!
Thank you. I think we will just have to put them in the dog kennel with a towel so they don't slide around. They will be unhappy, but I'm sure their little brains won't dwell on it too much :)
We are moving out of state and will have to drive 20 hours and we are leaving no chicken behind. How do I transport the girls? I have no clue what to do. We have 3 chickens and they are our backyard chicken pets. I'm not concerned about the laws of owning chickens where I'm going, so no need...
So we got the results of the necropsy and Tasty had a bad internal infection. This could have been from birth, or something she got in her short 8 months with us. This seems to have been the cause of her soft/shelless eggs she was laying. The vet said she had many yolks inside that ended up...
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She hadn't been laying hard shell eggs for quite a while, just soft shelled or shelless. The day before she died she layed a shelless egg, so I'm thinking there wasn't anything caught, but of course I could be wrong.
I'm sorry to hear of your losses as well. My husband just took her to an avian hospital and they will do a necropsy (?) To see if they can figure out what killed her. We are all still very torn up over our loss. I will post once we have more info on the cause. Good luck to you all.
This morning my Barred Rock tried (and failed, again) to lay and immediately after she became fairly comatose. She barely moved for a couple hours so my husband and I put her on our patio chair away from the other three chickens and she just slept there for about 4 or 5 hours. I tried to get...
My dog is a Beagle and he eats the poop like they are little treats! We were very worried about him being around the chickens, and slowly introduced him and gave him visitations, and now I think he leaves them alone because he would never hurt his "treat machines". Aside from horrible breath...