Hello all! I'm new here and to chicken keeping, was hoping for some advice. I will try and give all the relevant info and photos to help. So, I have 5 chickens living together in a large field that has thick under growth and they forage for bugs etc as well as the food and water we provide. They...
Over the past week or so one of my two Buff Orpingtons has been losing weight. She is the biggest chicken I've ever had and was probably 8 pounds (beak to tail she is ~14") earlier. Now she weighs less, her keel bone is out by an inch, and I can feel her two breastbones. Below is a bunch of...