I was so surprised to see all 4 of them dead since they were doing better than my chickens at everything, but it's also weird because they all dropped dead in the middle of the night falling off their roost. It seems if it was a health or parasite issue it would have happened one after the other...
I have just started raising my own heritage chickens for meat so I don't know if I'm just not used to store bought chicken anymore or if there is something to this. When we opened the package we were surprised to see some of the grossest looking chickens yet. You can tell that they were over...
I am in the process of learning how to care for chickens because we are starting a farm. So far we have raised hens and been rescuing rooster chicks that would otherwise be culled and wasted, giving them the opportunity to grow up enough to be utilized as meat birds. However, we have much to...