We purchased two dozen chicks from Meyer, and they will be 13 weeks old tomorrow. Starting around week 7-8, these chicks started dieing from an unknown cause.
The chicks that passed were large, appeared healthy, active, etc.
We lost our 5th chicken today. This morning, all chickens were fine...
Has anyone ever seen something like this before? I just saw it for the first time on one our chickens this morning. Other chickens don't appear to have anything similar, but we're going to do a more thorough inspection this afternoon.
She's acting normal. Eating and drinking fine. She's a...
So we had a hen go broody for the first time, and we moved her from the nest box into a rabbit pen with her eggs. We set the rabbit cage on the floor of our chicken coop so that she was still around the other chickens, and gave her her own food and water. Her chicks hatched out last night, and...