Hello I just started keeping bantams this summer
We bought a pekin cock and seven hens . Also a orpington cock who we call gorgeous george and four hens.
All had been going really well. Little grey orpington hen has hatched two chicks how five weeks old.
Then today disaster Little black orpington hen refused to eat. My husband advised that i should separate her from the others in case she had caught something i put her in a box with some bedding she seemed ok ate a grape. Then when i went back to check her she seemed to be gasping for air. one hour later she was dead . i am so upset and confused she seemed so well and had just molted into wonderful new feathers.
Just needed to talk to someone else who likes chickens My other half can not understand why i am so distressed.
Hope chicken keeping isn,t always this upsetting
We bought a pekin cock and seven hens . Also a orpington cock who we call gorgeous george and four hens.
All had been going really well. Little grey orpington hen has hatched two chicks how five weeks old.
Then today disaster Little black orpington hen refused to eat. My husband advised that i should separate her from the others in case she had caught something i put her in a box with some bedding she seemed ok ate a grape. Then when i went back to check her she seemed to be gasping for air. one hour later she was dead . i am so upset and confused she seemed so well and had just molted into wonderful new feathers.
Just needed to talk to someone else who likes chickens My other half can not understand why i am so distressed.
Hope chicken keeping isn,t always this upsetting