I have had two losses in last couple days. The first was when hens were free ranging. A silkie bantam went missing and a pile of feathers left. Today a juvenile silkie rooster was killed inside my (7ft wood) fenced off garden area. There was a big pile of feathers, and then a few smaller areas...
Its 3rd time today.. I found a broken thin rubbery shell and all egg material just under the perch..i know which chicken had did that...what might be the problem..?? She have eggshell and oystershell whenever she needs..and why does the egg slip off when he is on perch..?
I guess the calcium...
The following photo is one of my newly deceased 7 month-old Amber Sex-Link bantam chicken (aka Demonai). She was one of our favorites, and finding her corpse in my backyard was unsettling. If you can't tell from the photo, everything was gone except for her head and wings. We've also found her...