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For the most part only the egg layers have lightly tread the area where the broilers are. I do not have a vet that I know of for chickens, but might send one to cornell. There is no bloody stool to be seen, and again no other signs of Mareks in the flock. Hoping this is just a random Cornish...

The "paralysis" is overnight, not progressive as I've read. Also of the 3 affected birds, all between 4-8 weeks old in the same batch, it has only affected the legs, never the neck or the wings. Moreover, none of my free range egg layers seem to have any issues and it would affect the entire...

No that's not the problem but thank you. This happened a few weeks ago in the same batch. All the chickens are running around and even escape the enclosure to run and forage. It's a strange batch which is why I'm taking them to 9 weeks.

I run broiler chicken tractors all summer and my third and final batch this season have been abnormal in 2 ways. 1. A few weeks ago 1 bird wouldn't stand up, and perished within 3 days. I would have to pick her up when moving the tractor, I would feed her a little before putting her back in...

I wouldn't have believed this, but I have about 40 free range chickens and I also raised pastured meat birds. They have acres to roam and live in harmony with 3 dogs and 2 cats. One of my cats just playful pounced around behind one of my Rhode Island Red hens and it ran a few feet and then...

You've been a huge help, thank you!

Thanks for the help! So are these mites something you live with and ecology keeps them in check, or are they something that needs to be eradicated through vigourous cleaning and treatment?

Is that all I need to do plus maybe a follow up at 7 and 14 days? I checked 3 other random chickens and none of them had mites I could find yet, but one broody chicken and 2 nest boxes were covered all over the lid and roosting bar. My question is, should I proactively treat my other normal...

I'm using "Dust-on" with active ingredient permethrin but I have one hen who is broody and is covered in mites. Should we make a water mixture and do a bath? Anyone have experience with this stuff and what you recommend doing? I have 22 fee range birds in a 8x16' coop. Thanks!

So I jinxed myself.. Found a dead hen this AM (the bird in my last question was a male). So last night was abnormally cold and rainy in New York. Down to low 40's I would guess + rain. They are in a chicken Tractor 24/7 with a tarp over it so maybe with wind chill one of the smaller ones...

Not particularly hot. There's mild panting but today is very cool and I noticed it again this morning.

I have a batch of 5 week old Cornish, no losses yet and seeing if I can keep it that way! They are all running around, foraging in their chicken tractor and quite active. One of them however I notice when I feed them, he goes from sitting to standing back to sitting while he is eating (the...

Now that I've killed the adult male. Do I need to worry about the female/s and kits coming around for more free lunches? Wondering if I need to sit out for a few more mornings to make sure. Total kill count was 30 birds in 2 attacks and would have been more had we not scared it off during its...

The fox was dispatched this morning. Male, red fox, 15 pounds. He came around at 5:00 am on the dot and made his attack from the tall grass in the creek. I caught him with the 12ga from maybe 70 feet mid-attack into a cluster of young birds. Somehow I managed not to hit a single bird! Let's...

I'm debating since gray fox are so tiny, like 13 pounds.. Should I risk missing with the rifle in the window or should I sit on the chicken coop with a shotgun instead? Will it notice me and stay away if I try to get close enough for a shotgun?

Well the dog is back home now and this mornings 2 kills looked pretty clean, no feathers or gore. My girlfriend thinks it was a juvenile gray fox. But I thought the same thing, I figured a fox would leave a blood bath and a doodle would leave dead play toys. I'd like to hear more people chime...

It was a fox! We caught the sucker this morning at 5am nabbing a chicken and my girlfriend chased it off. There was another one dead nearby with no blood on it at all, just like before. That's the reason I thought it wasn't a fox, I thought a fox would bloody them more. I'm going to throw...

I asked my mom to watch my birds this weekend because I had a wedding, and she brought her 11 y/o golden doodle. He likes to chase the birds here and there but never killed anyone. Well I get a call this morning saying there's all these dead chickens scattered about as if they had just dropped...

Yeah I wanted to ask before stringing fishing line and CD's for hawk prevention. I have a trail cam set up so I will check tonight and see if anything was lurking. Fingers crossed that the predator was sniffing around the coop last night so I can narrow it down and shoot it.

I've been free ranging about 19 standard sized chickens for the better part of a year in my upstate NY farm, but only in the last week I've lost 3 hens. 2 of my losses occurred back to back days this weekend. There's been no evidence, not even blood in the snow. We have hawks like you...