Not sure what a keel bone is but if you mean breast bone then yes gets was very prominate teh other birds in the flock shunned her fo awhile because she had to be seperated after a dog attack. We thought the prominance of the bone was perhaps because they werent letting her eat
We have been feeding them purina chicken food the kind that promotes egg laying. blue bag. Its un medicated but am going to go back to the medicated Have been feeding about 3/4 of a 5 quart ice cream. Bucket daily. The only thing that we have different recently is we gave them pumpkin. I read...
I dont think they have had any stress but cant be completely sure. They are let out during the day and put back in the coop at night to protect against night time predators. We do have coyotes and badgers in the area, but have never left them out at night. It does get chilly at night but was...
We live in the mountains of montana the weather has been nice but chilly. We were told when we bought them that the breeds we have do really well in cold westher and high altitudes.
We are new to raising chickens and ha e lost 2 in the course of 3 weeks. They were fine one day and sick the next. We bought all of them in March from Murdochs which is a big chain feed & Tack store and they didnt have specific breed for the majority of the ones we bought. Just that they were...