We ordered 10 chicks from McMurray hatchery in February and got 13 - two extra cuckoo marans and one "free gift" silver-laced cochin. One marans chick was sneezing when we got it and died three days later. About four weeks later, I started seeing blood in the poo and oddly curled feathers, so...
We have nine four-month-old chickens (down from 13, but that's a different story) - two buff orpington hens, one black sexlink hen, and six cuckoo marans (3 hens, 3 roosters). We introduced them to our year-old birds (three rhode island red hens, three ameraucana hens, one ameraucana rooster) a...