Recent content by smilinggoat

Lol. I guess that is one way of looking at is. It isn't funny but it is :)

Even so, the cage she was in, just in case, is being completely disinfected before anyone is allowed back in it. It does get disinfected on a regular basis anyway, we use pine bedding which is picked using a cat litter type scoop three times a day. Their place is about the cleanest spot around...

No, haven't used this, but might be something to look into. These guys have both done this in the basement when they have been out of the cage but it certainly wouldn't hurt to keep anything from being in there considering.

We have had others eat these giving them a quick killing peck, but I just refuse to believe it is a coincidence that both of the chickens ate them without killing first and each time it was witnessed and they both died of the same symptoms within 24 hours.

Thank you so much. I was thinking a similar thing after I wrote this that maybe there is something natural that would kill them. Mark said that he killed a bunch last night. Scary thought.

We unfortunately have had two cases in which our chickens have been witnessed by my husband as having glumped down wolf spiders without pecking and killing them first. Both of these died of the same symptoms within 24 hours. They became discoordinated, started vomiting, had breathing...