They were locked in their pen...no way anything got to her. if so they could have gone up into the coop and gotten the rest of them.
On another note...my neighbors new dog just broke through the fence . It killed 3 if my girls. I have one that it looks like a bad wing and another with a broken...
Last night I found one of my girls dead in the run. There were feathers everywhere around the walk up and the automatic door area. The door was open (should have been closed) . The read out on the door said it was jammed.
Has anyone heard of the door killing a chicken? I can't find any other reason.
Thank you so much for responding.
She doesn't have anything coming out of the vent and I did see her poo ( of course while i was trying to clean her up). The raw is the top portion of the vent but the bleeding has stopped. She is eating (omega egg maker, sea kelp and meal worms) and drinking...
Hi everyone,
I am hoping some one can give me some answers or ease my mind.
Tonight I saw my 2 year old EE had a bloody butt. She was acting perfectly fine. After cleaning her up it looks like the flap ( for lack of a better description) is tattered and raw looking. there looks as if there...
thank you so much for responding! I have put her in with my younger girls to see if they will bond... she did find herself back to the big girl coop tonight was hoping she would go to bed with the teenagers. Wish me luck!
I have a number of chickens and have gotten them a few at a time. I noticed that they seem to hang out with their brooder mates a bit more then the others. With that being said I had a Leggbar and black Marans that were a brooder family. My Leggbar just passed recently and my Marans doesn't seem...
I have a couple of ideas for you.
What you might have is an egg eater. Put some hard fake eggs in the boxes and that will help. Also pick eggs up a number of times during the day so they don't have a chance to break them.
Keep putting out oyster shell, they will eat it when they need it. I...