- Mar 27, 2013
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Hi,
Long story so here goes....
So I have just started chicken raising and it is not really going smoothly thus far. They have what I see as the ideal chicken home, a safe & secure coop for at night & free to roam fenced 15x 4m area during day. I have a hanging water & food bowl in night coop & two each of food & water for yard during day. They are being fed top quality laying crumble & bedding is pine chips/ clean layer sprinkled each day then completely changed weekly.
I sprinkled gardening lime on grass in their area and there is also a hot water system pipe that drips into their area & they sometimes drink. Breeder thought both these things fine though. We have been in this house two years now and have never put down rat poison (if ppl prior to us had done so could it still be around to hurt chooks?, assumed would have washed away. Well that's all the environmental factors covered, now back to chooks.
We brought the hens from a breeder who, on the three occasions I have seen her now seems very caring & knowledgeable. Five weeks ago we purchased 3 Isa Brown pullets. One week later one became sick & was just sitting in garden for a couple of days not eating/drinking. I took this one back to her as wanted it to be treated humanely if needed to be killed rather than dying a slow painful death. The lady sent us home with a strong new chook to add to flock. Then another wk later the same thing happened only quicker this time. Chook came down sick in afternoon, called breeder for advice then less than an hr later was dead. When a few days later tgis happened to second of origional 3 I didn't muck around & took it straight back out to her. She yet again replaced chook so only one left, who was still super healthy didn't get lonely. Hopefully this is not becoming too confusing! We are bow left with one of the origional 3 hens and the one new hen she gave last wk. Mt newest issue now that this one is dripping blood from its nose & coughing. Can not work out for the life of me what it could be and am getting upset with so many falling ill, 4 now, and dying (1 to date). Breeder says other two had. Chicken pox like sores on combat but getting stronger now..... Does anyone have any idea what could be going on please!??? :-(
Long story so here goes....
So I have just started chicken raising and it is not really going smoothly thus far. They have what I see as the ideal chicken home, a safe & secure coop for at night & free to roam fenced 15x 4m area during day. I have a hanging water & food bowl in night coop & two each of food & water for yard during day. They are being fed top quality laying crumble & bedding is pine chips/ clean layer sprinkled each day then completely changed weekly.
I sprinkled gardening lime on grass in their area and there is also a hot water system pipe that drips into their area & they sometimes drink. Breeder thought both these things fine though. We have been in this house two years now and have never put down rat poison (if ppl prior to us had done so could it still be around to hurt chooks?, assumed would have washed away. Well that's all the environmental factors covered, now back to chooks.
We brought the hens from a breeder who, on the three occasions I have seen her now seems very caring & knowledgeable. Five weeks ago we purchased 3 Isa Brown pullets. One week later one became sick & was just sitting in garden for a couple of days not eating/drinking. I took this one back to her as wanted it to be treated humanely if needed to be killed rather than dying a slow painful death. The lady sent us home with a strong new chook to add to flock. Then another wk later the same thing happened only quicker this time. Chook came down sick in afternoon, called breeder for advice then less than an hr later was dead. When a few days later tgis happened to second of origional 3 I didn't muck around & took it straight back out to her. She yet again replaced chook so only one left, who was still super healthy didn't get lonely. Hopefully this is not becoming too confusing! We are bow left with one of the origional 3 hens and the one new hen she gave last wk. Mt newest issue now that this one is dripping blood from its nose & coughing. Can not work out for the life of me what it could be and am getting upset with so many falling ill, 4 now, and dying (1 to date). Breeder says other two had. Chicken pox like sores on combat but getting stronger now..... Does anyone have any idea what could be going on please!??? :-(