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One hen made it...I think. She still looked good tonight. @ Folly - those bright eyes are safe from me... she is staying. Not my rooster, Tipperary. Today, I put a call in for some chicks. Will be ordering this week. Will get a mixed group, I like that kind of flock best. SWEAR.... ugh. Oh...

Learn how to get along... that is a good point. This just sucks, eggs should started coming in the next two weeks, this has been such a good flock, healthy, active, was going to do some hatching for a friend, and myself of course. I just think I really do know what I am doing, got it figured...

Yes it was for rodent control. And very, very weird it has never been an issue before. But we found oats in a place they have never been, coming out of a hole into an old building that the girls do go in. Pack rat maybe? Thing is this ranch has been here for more than 100 years, and old...

Thank you all for your support, I am truly going to miss this flock. I am thinking one hen left, and she is perky, now what to do? I so like having chickens, and to basically do a start over. What kind? Of course at different times, I have thought, if I had to do it over again, I would..."...

ok, I think I found the poison, some very, very old poisoned oats. A small pile was found in an old building they do hang out in. The source of that will be taken care of, it is a relief to have solved this. And a spur to take some needed action. Mrs K

I am a bit concerned about the rooster. I have not let them out since Friday, so it would not be an additional exposure. He is bright eyed, squatted down, like he was basking in the sun, only he is in the coop in the dark. He did get up and walk out, but a little slower, like he had just been...

Well as I am pretty sure I have the only chickens in 30 miles, I think that is a quarantine, and yes I am checking on the two remaining birds... but I do not think this was an illness. I have had chickens for decades, and I would recognize if 6 birds were sick. No coughing, no depression, no...

You know gas was my original first thought, but there is no way possible. It is a loan coop, no energy of any kind is added. It has great ventilation. The manure is not built up. This is just weird. mk

Well I am pretty positive they didn't eat the rat poison unless it was days ago. I think that traces would be in the crop. It is highly colored. I have a call into the vet to see what they think, course, just a large animal vet... but what we have. As for the other two, they seem quiet, but...

I did open two birds - found nothing but normal, little fatter than I thought birds. The crop is full in two different birds - scratch and layer feed, and traced with a little green grass - which is what I would expect, why I let them out, hardly any green - had to scrounge for it. The organs...

Yes, I think I will open up a crop and see what is in there. I wasn't going to, but it would be better to know.

No on light bulbs, definitely hardware disease is a possibility - but I don't thing 6 birds at once.

But not little children.... I am going to look hard. That would be unforgivable.

We to have the rat poison contained. But the coons got into it and scattered it and packed it out. Coons can get into nearly anything. So darn discouraging. DH had found some, and of course picked it up. This is an old ranch, and we do have old buildings, so hoping to tear some of those...

I am thinking maybe rodent poison. Not in my coop of course, but up in the cattle barn, we had quite a problem. It has been so nice, I have been letting the chickens out to roam.They generally don't roam clear to the cattle barn, but they must have. My husband found some that had been drugged...

Get them through the worst of winter, days getting longer, a few eggs showing up. Yesterday morning, a older bird, dead on the bottom of the coop. It happens, disappointing, she was a good bird, but quick and painless. This morning things were fine. They were still roosted up when I did chores...