We previously had two disastrous experiences with backyard chickens and, after relocating our chicken area, decided to try again! Things are going GREAT!
This is Snowball. She is our oldest and a White Plymouth Rock. She had just finished rolling around in the dirt in our garden beds...
Okay, below is our current chicken set up. We are fairly new to having chickens. We tried before with chicks and it was devastating! They got sick somehow and died suddenly. Our neighbor have us the caged in run area. It is covered all around with chicken wire and staked to the ground. The...
Last fall, we go backyard chickens for the first time. We got them from a lovely woman with a chicken/goat/alpaca farm nearby. We got 2 Americaunas and 2 Cochins. We were raising them as baby chicks but, sadly, all 4 of them suddenly died. We were devastated but, after researching and trying...
I went out early this morning to check on Lucy, Ethel, and Dorothy and they were all dead! Laying just like Rosie was! When I checked on them last night (at about 8:30p) they were FINE!
I don't understand. I can't think of anything that could have done this. I am just so heartbroken. I'd...
I don't know what happened, but I went out tonight to make sure my chicks were snug in their coop (as I do every night) and I noticed that Rosie was apart from the others and laying at an odd angle.
I thought she had already died, but when I picked her up I saw she was barely breathing. Took...
I have dreamed of having chickens for years and years but couldn't have them where we lived or, after we finally bought our own home, couldn't talk my husband into them. We had a friend at church that had chickens and we would buy eggs off of him, but he recently moved away so no more of the...