It kind of sounds like Coccidiosis to me. Medicated food helps prevent it, but it doesn't always work.
Chicks are very fragile, and some just don't have the drive to live. I'm sorry for your loss.
I'm quite new to geese, and I have 2 female geese. I have noticed that they have been burying their eggs in the straw that is in my chicken coop. Is this normal behavior??
They have 3 dogs, but only 2 come on to our property. The other one has been shot with a bb gun before and wont come back. I just bought 2 goslings... One is an african or a toulouse and I'm not sure about the other one. I'm getting paid today, so I might order some more.
They have climbed the fence before, but that was when they were little...I think they are too big to climb it now. It is a steel grated fence and its pretty flimsy. The dogs weigh almost 70 pounds. The neighbors are away for the weekend, and I went and chained them up in their backyard, so that...
I have talked to them, and they are in a fenced backyard, but they keep getting out and the neighbors don't know how. I probably would have done that too, if we weren't such good friends with our neighbors. We don't want to cause any problems. My dad says if this keeps going on, were either...
My next door neighbors dogs keep getting on to our property and killing our chickens. Just today they wounded almost all of them and killed at least 3. We are still missing some. Our rooster didn't do anything but run away like a coward, and our other one stood up for his hens but was eventually...