Ok. Yeah, I won't be adding any more. My heart can't take it anymore. I will do my very best to baby the ones I have left, as I always have, but this is the last straw. I would not want to pass this on to any new birds. It's too bad, they are ssssooo much fun. It just hurts my heart too...
Also, this may sound like a dumb question, but is there any point in disinfecting when I only have 11 chickens left and they're all in the same area as the ones that died? I would think they now all have it.
Amazingly I already got the results back and she did have a few worms but it looks like it was Marek's. ☹ I will be treating the rest for worms. Is there anything I can do for the Marek's? My banties were vaccinated against it but Tractor Supply does not purchase from a place that gives...
Yes, they have both grit and oyster shells available to them and the area is protected by an electric fence so no issues there plus I don't throw more on the ground than they can eat. Thank you for your feedback! 😊. I'm going to send her to the state lab for a necropsy.
Yes, they were separated, in different pens, in effect being quarantined. They were within a stone's throw of each other in the same yard for almost a year. Sorry I didn't make that clear. And I've had the two that I took to the vet in the past tested for parasites and they both tested...
Thank you so much, what a great resource!!! Oh no, I had her in my garage all morning and then my husband came home at lunch and buried her and now we have a major thunderstorm. :(
Thank you!
I had 12 chickens, now down to 10, and I have one of those big red chicken feeders. I did mix in 4 bantams a couple of weeks ago because I lost 13 of those to a dog attack at night (inside what we thought was a bullet proof coop but I wan't accounting for a 95 pound husky and a 50...
Good morning all,
Sssssoooo, after surviving a dog attack, then a raccoon attack that decimated our flock, we installed electric fencing around our Fort Knox coop and that seems to have been working against predators for the last couple of months, but we now have another problem. Over the last...