For goodness sake! I've lost 2 of my girls to some unknown wasting illness, one to a fox & have just found one of them with, what looks like a prolapsed egg vent! Didn't think keeping chickens was supposed to be this stressful (& expensive!) Off to the vets soon with the prolapse, atm she is in...
Gutted! Lost my speckledy hen to a fox! She went missing yesterday (my other half went to shut them up & she wasn't there). Found her body in the field near the house this morning, decapitated but otherwise untouched. The awful thing is her body was still warm. So now I have the guilt thing...
Hi, I need some advice on how to get some weight onto my chickens quickly.
I now have 5 of the little beasties (a black maran, speckledy maran, brown ranger, white sussex a bluebelle) We did have a cream legbar, but we had to have her put down after a dramatic & catastrophic loss in weight &...