Search results for query: *

  1. slimchicken

    Hen and chicks all dead in cage

    Thanks for your comment, Aleta. I have been wracking my brain since I found them yesterday. I went through my motions the day before, smelled the waterer (though I gave same water to a bunch of peeps and a hen only 16" - 18" away from them). I fear I will never know, which means I'll always be...
  2. slimchicken

    Hen and chicks all dead in cage

    Thanks for that. These guys didn't have a lightbulb and were instead, under a hen. It's an interesting read though and appreciated.
  3. slimchicken

    Hen and chicks all dead in cage

    That's what I figured. The babies were two days apart in age and the guineas, younger, were considerably smaller. I would have figured they'd go, then the Hamburgs, then possibly the hen, who was very active and healthy. Thanks for the reply.
  4. slimchicken

    Hen and chicks all dead in cage

    Thank you for your welcome, kind words and advice. I assume it has to be some sort of toxin. However, there is nothing but the regular feed and fresh well water (that everyone else ate and drank as well.) I've been wondering if there could have been some kind of organic chemical reaction within...
  5. slimchicken

    Hen and chicks all dead in cage

    No, they were inside a larger walk in coop that has a full roof over it. They never actually receive any direct sunlight in there at all, which is why I start putting them out in a wire pen in dappled sunlight each day once they're a week or 10 days old. I had not added the DE yet, and had...
  6. slimchicken

    Hen and chicks all dead in cage

    I have had chickens for 20 some years and have never come across anything like this. Yesterday evening, I fed and watered my Speckled Sussex hen and her adopted family of guinea and Silver Spangled Hamburg chicks, less than a week old. On my morning rounds today, I found my hen and every chick...
Back
Top Bottom