Hi all!
New-ish to chicken disease and am needing to nip it in the bud asap!
We have a mixed flock of: Orpington, silkie, reds, leghorn, rock, ameracana, couple of mystery breeds, and turkeys plus peacock.
Our silkie rooster has developed a sad crow and was sneezing and had nose discharge...
It hasn’t been cold/hot, no storms and no predators.
Thank you for the input! That’s what we were thinking it was, but with them laying after for a couple of weeks after we got the new birds and then for them to suddenly stop, we weren’t sure if that was still the cause.
Our OG layers were born last August (7 of them), so they are now just over a year old.
Two months ago we picked up a turkey and a silkie. They integrated well into the flock.
We picked up more layers at a swap a month ago (7 new-to-us hens, within laying age). In addition, we picked up...
Hi there, we free range our ladies. We picked up a couple of silkies in June (8ish weeks old at the time) and they have been doing well! Three days ago a bobcat took off with one and injured another. No feathers but caught on camera.
Our injured chicken was in shock. We brought her in the...
Hello, I had chickens growing up (I’m 34 today!) but I didn’t really get involved with them. I was a horse person. However, my son, who is 7 (in eight days) got chickens as a birthday gift last year. 16 of them! He was so jacked!
That starts out chicken journey. The birthday chickens are...