6 chicks hatched Sept. 2 first day mom and roo pecked one to death, a few days later one died, now two weeks old biggest chick dies. They just get sluggish and sit still can't move around with the others and this last one seem to have an abcess or growth on the side of its little 'chest' (don't...
One evening resting inside my small farm house I heard our banty rooster squawking and cackling furiously. I ran outside to witness a chicken hawk carrying off our banty hen. I started yelling and rushing toward the edge of the yard where the woods begin where the hawk came down with her I...
HELP! A few weeks ago our banty chicken was swept to the edge of our yard by a chicken hawk. JJ her man was squawking and cackling so I went out to check and started yelling and siking the dogs on the hawk. Finally, the hawk let henny penny go and she seemed fine, a little rattled, lost a few...