We are in in NE Missouri, west of St Louis. I'll update my profile.
Feed layer pellets in automatic feeder that is protected from weather. I will feed cracked corn once daily in winter and scratch once daily in the summer. They started free ranging my yard and wooded area behind yard during...
I've been raising chickens for the last almost 2 years since my son's preschool class hatched chickens and needed someone to take them once they had been observed for a week after hatching. Luckily, at the same time my neighbor was moving and getting rid of his old coop since he was building a...
Returned from vacation on Sunday evening. Had our neighbor watching coop as she has done before. She called Sunday morning letting me know that she had found one of the chickens dead and another hiding under coop and wouldn't come out. No other concerns. Got home, found chicken still under coop...