I only thought that it's only in Australia that you get chicken thieves like foxes etc and I grew complacent. In fact just two weeks back one of my hens incubated her eggs successfully outside in a fair open space.
Sorry guys I should have let you know that I'm not in Australia so it won't be cold here. In fact it's hot. Since posting, I discovered the culprit, a feral cat. I suppose the little ones simply died of shock.
Luckily where I live we virtually have no predators before this cat came. Many times I've forgotten to close my chicken house at night and in the morning I find them safe. Guest I just grew lazy to bother about their security.
Since writing, it came again and saw that it was a feral cat ! What perplexes me is that it couldn't have killed all forty ! That's why I wondered if shock can kill chickens. I'm so mad.
I woke up this morning to a dreadful sight of my almost 40, two months old lying dead in their coop. Yesterday i shifted them to this coop because their previous one had become too small for them. I know there's a wild cat that has done rounds and scared previous lot of chicks but I didn't see...
My flock are on Limoxin treatment and I know for that period the eggs are unsafe for human consumption. Is there any problem if I boiled them and fed them to the chickens?
I always read with much interested the ordinances that exist in most Europe/America countries about keeping of chickens. I do know that some laws exist on paper but our Councils never bother to enforce them because chickens are very much part of a typical African's life. Probably the only house...