Hello,
I live in western Washington in a small house on a quarter acre. I try to grow most of my own food including chickens. In previous years they have just been for eggs. However, this year I've done some coop renovations and bought some multi-purpose chicks hoping to get some meat.
Last week I purchased 12 day old chicks from my local feed store. One of them wasn't growing as fast as the others and kept getting paste butt. When I checked on them yesterday evening she was dead. I figured it was some kind of intestinal abnormality and wasn't worried about it. However, this...