I just went out to put up the girls tonight and am fairly certain that I will have a dead hen in a few days. She is a leghorn and I can not usually pick them up tonight she was in the nesting box, when I reached in to get her out she let me clue number one. She is very thin and has a wet bottom...
I jumped the gun yesterday and posted about my hens before saying hello, so here I am saying HI! I'm better at answering questions than I am about telling things about myself so I will go through the form that BYC set up.
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
We moved...
I've had chickens for 3 years and every thing was going along fine and this past fall things started to go off into the ditch.
1st. Had a chicken die a non predator death. She'd been slow for a couple of days and her comb was a pale or purplish but I'd seen them get like this before an bounce...