Recent content by chickpea stew

Thank you for the reply. The tail feathers have been making suspect roo, but his comb and wattle is not very big.

I'm not sure of the exact age, but he/she was hatched this spring. No eggs yet. This one is really hard to photograph.

Just wanted to stop in and say hello. I'm in the Fox Lake area.

My thoughts were that I would cull the flock. The rooster has to go asap and I couldn't give him away to anyone with chickens knowing he was potentially exposed to something. I was thinking I could sanitize the coop with oxide, dig a layer of dirt out of the run and replace it with new dirt. I'm...

Thank you for the replies. I was leaning towards marek's. I think we will cull the remaining three tomorrow.

This might be long and hard to follow, but I want to give the full story. This spring/summer has been my first experience with chickens. This spring was a really special day. I let the kids skip school and we woke up early to be the first at Tractor Supply on chick delivery day. Their shipment...