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So, if I were to feed all flock what would I use? I can get kalmbach from chewy in 16% or 20% protein. Or I can get naturewise from tractor supply. I have a chicken that had pendulous crop. Half of her crop died off and was sewn back together. She lays continously soft shelled eggs. I feed her...

I realize roosters don't lay. Even the chicken that eats tons of oyster shells lays thin shelled eggs. Her eggs have little calcium deposits all over them.

A little goes a long way. I very rarely give them garlic and I don't think I'll start.

Pretty sure all but one, one that is currently on antibiotics, lay. And they don't have very thick shells.

I I do feed it fermented. My vet recommended not feeding fermented grains in case there was any mold and to not feed whole grains at all because they may pick at it. I plan on phasing it out of their diet and just feeding layer pellets.

I love the excitement of new chicks and I too then get that awful gut feeling. I can't keep doing this to myself amd I can't afford it. Too much work, money and heartache. I have 4 roosters and maybe they'll live a long time? Maybe I'll just have a bachelor pad. Such a curse. It would be hard to...

I don't feed them much scratch. I feed them Scratch and Peck. It's a whole grain layer feed.

I can't think of anything that would be that poison around here. Most of them, with exception of Fern, didn't die that quickly. 4 of them went to the vet and she never suspected poisoning. I'm sorry about your chicken.

No, I don't think they all had cancer. 2 were diagnosed by a vet but I didn't have them necropsied so I don't know for sure.

I have a 14 year old dog with cancer right now so this is all just fraying my last 2 nerves. I have such a love hate with all my animals. I do know I certainly wouldn't survive without them.

I need to figure out a new situation for the roosters now I only have 10 hens.

And every time I lose one I'm tempted to hatch more just to see a new and hopefully healthy life. But, the guilt is still eating at me over the ones I've lost. I can't help but feel I'm doing something wrong.

I'm sorry. Maybe I just not cut out for this if this is how it goes.

Thank you but I will stick with the birds I have until they die off. Then I'm done.

Water from our well, Natures Best feed, fermented scratch and peck. Oyster shells. I throw eggshells in the compost and some of them eat them there. They free range for an hour or two in the morning when I'm out.

2 birds that I know of had cancer. We have well water that's tested. No pesticides sprayed in the area. No manure run off. They do drink any standing water they find outside. I had 6 of my original 12 australorps die. 3 have died from a barnyard mix and 1 Dominique I bought last year as a 2 year...

Midcoast Maine

I have looked for local hatcheries there are none. I already have 4 roosters. I'm just going to give up at this point. Hopefully a few will live long lives and maybe the roosters will.

Unfortunately my local vet is not that well versed with chickens. She sent samples and pictures to other avian vets. Labs were not done. The cause of death was ruled as a hepatic rupture. I had 2 other chickens die with the same symptoms. That was 4 years ago.

I have 2 of them in their own pens. I could possibly pen the other two but I can't get rid of any of them.