All my chickens appear to be fine, but a friend experienced with chickens came by my coop, held one of my hens and said that she has a respiratory disease. She said she could tell this because she could feel her breastbone and that you should not be able to feel the breastbone of a chicken...
We just hatched our first hatch. So far, 12 out of 18. Cute as can be! The first one came right at day 21 and now we are on to day 23 and just got number 12. We have 6 eggs left unhatched. We used eggs from several kinds of chickens, some of our own and some we got from a farm. We candled...
I am new to chickens, so this might be a stupid question, but I couldn't find the answer anywhere. Today my chickens caught and killed a pygmy rattlesnake. I couldn't get the snake away from the chickens before they ate the snake. Will this hurt them? What should I do?