We have 6 chicks ranging in age from 6-8 weeks old. We would like to move them outside to their new coop, but the temperatures have been in the 20s at night and only in the 40s during the day. The coop is draft free and has straw they can nest in if so desired. The two older chicks have spent...
Over the past 4 days, we have had two of our young chickens mysteriously die. On Thursday we left on vacation. On Friday, our housesitter notified us that one of our chickens had passed away. No signs of illness, no blood, nothing to indicate what could have happened. Today we returned home and...
About 6 weeks ago, our relatively young Crested Cream Legbar (old enough for the coop but not laying yet) looked like she had an injured wing. She was dragging it on the ground and didn't seem to be able to move it. We tried wrapping it, but she kept managing to get it undone.
About a week...