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I've come to the conclusion, that it may be heat related. The roosters are bigger, our only surviving rooster, isn't a purebred RIR - he seems like he's a cross between a RIR and a Cochin - he's got fluffy feet, and the fluffy butt, like our white cochin does, and he's not much bigger than our...

They've been vaccinated, dewormed for the stuff DE doesn't kill, and I use DE in their feed to help keep parasites down as well. We deworm all our animals on a regular basis, because I'm anal about that, especially with 5 dogs and 7 cats. I don't like having to deal with it, and an ounce of...

Yeah. I've always found chickens to be scavengers. But, that's why I give a little more of the DE in their feed, just to be safe since I let them roam freely during the daytime. they only sleep in their coop and lay eggs in the nesting boxes. My stupid goats go in my chicken coop and hang out...

Ours share a pen with our goats. And our goats eat the chicken feed too and get in their coop, so I sprinkle it in a little more often just to be on the safe side. hehe (I'm not sure them eating chicken food is good for our goats, but I can't exactly stop them, the little buggers are smart and...

I've heard mixed reviews on that - but since all the roosters ended up dying, at two separate houses, and the only thing in common was the feed, I don't know what else it could be. I suppose it's "possible" the roosters killed each other off, but they had no signs of damage, and never fought...

So - I know it's not "my yard" and the only thing I can come up with, is the layer feed had too much calcium and killed my roosters. A friend raised a batch of chickens. Gave us half, we ended up with 4 roosters. One by one, my roosters all died. Except 1. I'm going to be switching their feed...