Hello everyone, I am absolutely heart broken this morning. I just got two young Polish Pullets on July9th. Suspected age orotund 7-12 weeks old. They have been in a separate run while I integrate them in my flock. This morning, Ebony (one of the Polish Pullets) was found dead in the coop. Both...
We have been letting our hens sit on their eggs and hatch chicks on their own...
Mumma hens x 2 have been sitting on the eggs of several hens, laid over a couple of weeks...
First hen hatched 9 chicks over 3 or 4 days. 2nd hen has hatched 7 chicks over 5 days, but today there were still 3 eggs...
I just found my second dead hen. She's young, looks healthy. No sign of being pecked or hurt by a predator. Some poop around the vent, but it wasn't blocked. No sign of being egg-bound, or maggots, or mites. Their poop is normal, as far as I can tell, maybe a little on the goopy side but then...
i had ordered what I thought were Rhode Island Reds, for larger eggs. Did my normal chick incubation, lockdown, etc. they didn’t hatch and I then got busy with work (on-call, mandatory OT) and my wife’s IVH (trying to hatch our own eggs).
This morning I hear peeps from the basement, and imagine...