Recent content by CookFarm

I was wondering how this fencing has worked out for you. We are considering getting a couple of pigs and thought this looked like a really cool idea. Fencing has been the only thing that has kept us from getting the pigs. We currently have goats, chickens, turkeys, ducks, cats, dogs and 4...

Also, I have read that to help avoid sour crop you should limit the bread intake. I was feeding them a decent amount of scraps, including bread. I hate that my ignorance of this potential problem has caused the deaths of these 2 beloved birds, but hopefully I can learn what is necessary to avoid...

Thank you so much for the advice. As it turns out my second rooster died this afternoon. I do believe it was sour crop. I have made sure that I put out plenty of poultry grit (I wasnt before) to try to avoid any further problems with any others in the flock. I have felt the others' crops, and...

I posted yesterday about the sudden death of my Lakenvelder rooster, and today I have another rooster acting very lathargic. I did notice on my Lakenvelder that he had a large and mushy (not gritty) gullet. I felt the other chickens gullets and found them to be much smaller and gritty feeling...

I went to the barn tonight to find 1 of my 3 roosters (a rhode island red) laying on the ground. This was odd to me because they never lay inside the chicken coop on the ground. I went over to him and nudged him to make sure he was ok, and he just stood up. However, he would not move until I...