Thank you to everyone for your responses and advice. I’m happy to report that Mary is back to her old active self. I did some dissecting of poo and it appeared to be mostly straw. I’ve read both negative and positive reviews on using straw as bedding. Overall though I don’t think the straw was...
Standard layer feed, vegetable scraps from kitchen, oats, (very little) scratch grains on cold nights in the evening, plus whatever they forage during free range time. I recently started using straw for their bedding though and there looks to be quite a bit of that in the stool she passed :/
Hello there, I’m new to this site and new to raising chickens. Thus far (excluding the chick we lost less than 24 hours after purchase :() our flock of 7 hens has appeared to be in good health...until a few days ago. We have one red who showed little interest in eating, foraging, or staying with...
