Just posting to people who will understand.
I adopted 3 hens from an animal shelter about a month ago. My girl Morsey (estimated about a year old), who laid the most eggs, was our "guard chicken," and had overall the biggest personality, dropped dead today.
She was squawking this morning...
We've had rain for weeks, but my ducks have been able to hang out in a dry coop, exterior covered run, and an outer fenced yard w a pool (it was cleaned and filled yesterday). Today I let everyone out and they were fine. I watched my 18 mo old adult f Pekin hop into the pool w her mate to...
Hello all,
This morning I had one of hens pass away. It had to have happened early this morning as I checked on all of them late last night. There are no signs of a predator, she was eating fine (in fact she was first to eat), drinking water fine, walking around and scratching, roosted fine...
I've had 3 chickens die randomly and now my duck died last night.
The first chicken ( 5 yo white leghorn) I believed had egg peritonitis.. She had weird discharge that I thought was vent gleet and I would clean her butt and she stayed inside for a week and later passed away.
The second chicken...