My beautiful chicken.

[HappyChickens1245]

i had a chicken the passed away about a month ago. I’m telling her background story because her breed seems to have problems. Is there anyone else experiencing this?

This is chicken little. a little disabled chicken that we got. We didn’t know that she was disabled until the other chicks grew and she didn’t. We got her last spring, she was an amazing chicken. She did grow a bit and she was so small that you could just pick her up in one hand. She walked funny and always used her wings to balance. She always had a huge appetite even in her last days, she may have been smaller than the other chickens but her determination was just as big. Since she was so small we named her chicken little.

Another chicken of ours of the same breed passed away less than two weeks ago. We think that she may of had egg binding. But in her lifetime she was very close to chicken little. She loved her a lot. Rest In Peace chicken little and l.b.

 

[lilmillefleur]

Sorry for your losses. We had a little one too but it had scissor beak and couldn't eat which is why I think it was small.
Your little one may have had neurological issues, but I'm not sure.

 

[Farm life101]

WHat do you feed them? are they free range? have they had any vaccinations and if so please specify? how much or often do you feed them? Where did you get them?

 

[HappyChickens1245]

WHat do you feed them? are they free range? have they had any vaccinations and if so please specify? how much or often do you feed them? Where did you get them?[/QUOTE

They don’t have any vaccines, and they live in our back yard which is fenced in.

 

[JedJackson]

Poor thing. But it sounds like you did your best by them while they lived. They were light Brahma bantams, so they were meant to be small, but the first picture definitely shows a bird with health problems. I don't think it was a problem with the breed so much as the breeder, so avoid buying from them again.

 

[HappyChickens1245]

Poor thing. But it sounds like you did your best by them while they lived. They were light Brahma bantams, so they were meant to be small, but the first picture definitely shows a bird with health problems. I don't think it was a problem with the breed so much as the breeder, so avoid buying from them again.

Ok thank you we’ll get chickens from a better source.

 

[Mosey2003]

Out of curiosity, where have you purchased your chicks? A farm store, or breeders?

 

[HappyChickens1245]

Out of curiosity, where have you purchased your chicks? A farm store, or breeders?

I got my chickens from a farm store. The rest of the chickens are fine.

 

[Mosey2003]

I got my chickens from a farm store. The rest of the chickens are fine.

Ah, luck of the draw then.

 

[HappyChickens1245]

Ah, luck of the draw then.

Yeah in the future I plan to go to a better source. I’m going to get some pretty soon to help the leftover two winter well. Any ideas on breeds of chickens?