Your young birds that died would have definitely been killed by an overdose of calcium. You shouldn't feed them layer or finisher pellets until they are no longer juveniles. The calcium overload will kill them for sure. Always read the back of the bag, it will say who to feed it to: is, ducks...
Another Roo found sick in same pen just now. One eye running lethargic and didn't run from me as usual, was sitting in corner head down. Also having trouble breathing, opening beak and sounds constricted. Help me please I have no idea what's going on here.
. Now he has coughed up a chunk of flesh!!! Still calm, not distressed but has coughed a few blood streaks on his newspaper. Stopped gurgling but still stretching neck to breathe. He's my favorite. I don't want to cull him. Doesn't seem in pain.
I have one roo with one hen in one of my pens. It seems fine, just make sure she has a roost to get up on to escape if he bothers her too much. He only hassles her when she is on the ground, if she gets fed up she flies up and sits up there for a while to get away.
You need more hens, or separate all but one rooster when they start to crow, please. They will kill her if you leave them all together when they are sexually mature. All of the five boys will be jumping on her all day long, she wouldn't last long like that.
I think he is just slower developing, sorry, less dominant roos tend to develop slower. His tail feathers are longer and of different shape to the pullet. Could be possible, but not likely I don't think.
All got rooster tails and combs except your dark grey and silver chook. See how she has no long feathers growing from the back above the tail feathers and her neck feathering is rounder, the boys have pointier, longer neck feathering, also roosters combs always grow bigger and earlier than...
Have you changed feed? I went from a meat added pellet to a vegetarian layer pellets and half my flock stopped and another quarter slowed down. Changed back to old feed and all started laying again.
Second - have you moved them? Also had hens stop laying when I moved them from a shed with tiny...
My JPanese bantam Roo seems to have something stuck in his throat, found like this after twenty minutes after scratch grains were thrown out to them. Keeps stretching his neck up to breathe, every now and then he coughs and splutters trying to get it up. Has drank a heap of water. I have him...