I've had one of my own dogs get loose and tear through one of my pens, leaving at least 2 or 3 in sad shape. He gets them by the neck and shakes them. But so far I've only lost 2 when he's done this. I've seen mine much worse so take heart. The reason she's laying so still, I personally...
ok, so haven't heard anything from anyone yet. Hope to soon. Just wanted to update you....is it possible this could have been a snake bite that is causing him/her to act like this? I wonder because we just discovered we have a black snake of some sort in the vicinity. It crawled right...
Just checked on him/her again. Lightning is it's name btw. It seems to be doing ok. It was down again but picked it up again. This time I held it looking to see if there was any reason for the leg to be giving him trouble getting up. The leg that seems to be bothering him is also very warm...
I have a 3+ year old Cochin roo. 2 days ago I noticed he was not quite as perky as his other 2 buddies and 2 hens. He was eating just fine. Doesn't seem as interested in drinking, but I'm not sure on that. Today I went out and checked on him and he was down, under the ramp to the roost and I...