Recent content by Jane01

Thanks for all your replies! We feed our chickens grain and often scraps such as rice, egg or other leftovers we can't finish, however, we are vegetarian so none of our scraps contain meat. It is also difficult to know what he could have eaten as our chickens free range. We currently have two...

Thanks for your quick response. The other two that died hatched at the same time as him, so were approximately 3 or 4 months old and were the same breed. Their conditions seemed to match that of a genetic heart problem in which the heart grows too large, I'm not sure exactly what it's called...

Hi, I have a 4 month old chicken who is most likely a rooster. I am not sure of the exact breed, but he is probably an Araucana and he hatched from a green/olive egg. For the past two or three weeks he has developed a bad limp in one leg and in the last couple of days this leg has become...