Good evening yall,
I really hate that most of my recent post have been about grim topics.
I went outside today to find one of our sweet juvenile chickens, killed. This is the risk of free ranging chickens, especially when you don't have a fence. We had planned to put in a fence either before...
My beautiful Partridge Cochin has been battling the heat. I've done everything I can, I've read articles and done it all.
At first I wasn't surprised when I found her collapsed in the chicken coop. Then I got closer.
My coop door is left open and so is the window straight back. The window has...
I have lost 8 baby chicks (not very young - 7-8 weeks) to an unknown predator. The run was closed, everyone inside and no holes dug into the run. All chicks left dead in the run except one outside the run (could not have left on it's own the run fencing is 6ft with nothing close to the edge they...
So I have a bit of an issue here.
Thursday night/Friday morning at about 3am, I heard my 4 chickens squawking and screaming. I ran outside to find one of them dead in front of the coop (not a lot of blood, maybe her neck was broken? Wasn't able to stop and find out), one totally missing, one...
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...