Recent content by MariG

One of our hens sat on her eggs for about 21 days and they hatched this morning. We're new to having a mama hen. I'm a little bit concerned because this Sunday and Monday we'll have temperatures at night of 30s and 60s during the day. Will the new born chicks be ok under Mama hen? Next week will...

I have also spotted some wild mushrooms growing in the free range area. I have pulled the ones that I have discovered, but I wonder if they have eaten any of those. I can't tell when a mushroom is poisonous or not, so I pull them all. Thank you. I appreciate very much your advice.

Thanks. I'll definitely search for calcium citrate with vitamin D. We have another neighbor who has chickens and ducks. We have a rooster though, and they don't. It's possible that someone might be annoyed by the rooster. However, we live in a rural area, and everybody has at least 2 acres. I'm...

Thank you for the advice. I'm going to tell my husband about MouseX. We've been careful not to use any poison.

No congestion. I was trying to listen to her and also the other one that died last week to see if I heard some evidence of congestion but no. No sneezing either. The area where they free range is fenced. They don't have access to the garden. Yeah. It looks like some form of poisoning. I just...

We don't use any poison. We have used cornmeal with baking soda but inside the house. It hasn't worked anyways. I wonder if any of our neighbors have used poison for mice. We have pretty good amount of mice in our area

I wonder if my neighbors have used poison to kill mice.

No. We don't use poison. We used a combination of cornmeal and baking soda inside the house but it hasn't worked. We have caught a few mice inside the house with the sticky little pads. My husband has seen a lot of mice and a few rats in the pole barn which is very far away from the chickens...

No. I didn't see any of that. I'm beginning to think that the food got contaminated with mouse poop or something like that. I always collect their feeders and put them in the shed at night. Lately I've been very tired , and I have to cook for my family, so too save time, I just leave the feed...

The one who died last week was from our first flock that we got about a 1 1/2 years ago. A Black Australorp. She was normal until the day she died. Very strange. I'm now with them. I let them free range in a fenced area . They spend the day in a chicken run that's pretty large, but I let them...

She was normal. Actually, she's one of the newest chicks we got in March. A Buff Orpington. Very fluffy and eating normal until this afternoon.

Hi everyone. I am new to this forum. My husband and I have been raising chickens for almost 2 years. We've never had any issue other than egg bound and I always resolve the issue with epsom salt in a water bath. Last week one of our chickens was in the coop in the morning and didn't want to get...