Our boys named three that look alike “J bird”, “B bird,” and “fireball”. One of the others is named Mrs. Bird. I asked my son what he wanted to name one of his chicks. He was holding a nerf dart in his hand, and as noted by the creativity above (thick sarcasm), he ran out of ideas so looked...
Please advice? Our 1 year old rooster suddenly tonight sounded odd. He has been acting normal and no other symptoms. Every breath sounds very odd. Crop issue versus gapeworm versus respiratory infection. We massaged crop holding him upside down several times. No change. We put probiotic...
All 3 of these hens are 1 year old black jersey giants. 2 are new innthe last few days and one seemed to have eaten an egg. And not finding the normal number of eggs in nesting boxes.
About a month ago, we treated our flock for coccidiosis based one several bloody poops. They all got 1 week of treatment. No bloody poops for a few days then noticed it again. We then figured out which chicken was still sick and culled her (since she was much worse even after treatment and...