I have wanted some chantecler chickens for a while now, and someone was selling three hens and a rooster relatively close to me.
I was so excited to finally have some!! So we got them and brought them home, kept them in their own coop to get settled in etc esp since the rooster was a little frisky for my liking. About a month or so later, a hen was looking...i dunno...poofy, and not really eating, next day or two she was dead!
A month after that I was outside in the morning, hearing the birds cackle like someone laid and egg (which they still hadn't done since bringing them home, they went into moult) so I was very excited, they were starting to lay!! I go check on them and the coop is full of BLOOD and so are my rooster and one hen!!! I believe I interrupted a weasel attack.
Moved poor bloody hen with head wound to recovery pen and she got better, as did the rooster. About a month later she was acting poofy and I found her dead soon after.
What is wrong with these chickens!!!
Finally the third hen succumbed as well.
The rooster seems to be doing fine. I think he got sick too, but he was the only one with bloody poo.
I wish they were all just fine and healthy too
