On Christmas Eve our hen, Annie Oakley, died. She had been poorly for a few days - diarrhoea, pale comb, lethargic, had stopped laying, etc. Our other two chickens seemed fine so we sadly wrote it off as 'one of those things' and disinfected the coop, feeders, etc.
But yesterday (3 days...
We recently adopted two chickens from a local school that didn't want them. (We didn't have any chickens prior.)
One of them is laying regularly. (Thank you, Princess Feather Pants.)
The other one, as far as we can tell, has only laid one normal egg since she arrived five weeks ago. She...
We have adopted two chickens from a local school that didn't want them. We have never had chickens and were lucky enough that we got the coop, food, feeders, etc - everything but the run! We have a neighbour, who is a fencer, installing a run for us - soon I hope! In the meantime we set up...