Hi there,
I am totally new to this forum and to chicken keeping, and to our horror we came home tonight to hear that our little runt Saturday (cause we got her on a saturday) was dead. I have no idea what happened. We live in Houston, TX so it is hot here all the time, but I do have fan on in their run/coop, so they can somewhat cool themselves off.
I still have 3 Buff orpingtons and 4 Australorps, what do I do to make sure they won't die?
They are on grower feed and have been for a few weeks, before that they were on starter. I also give them frozen watermelon slices to cool off, as well as renewing their water in the middle of the day so it satys drinkable and coolish (?). I haven't started grit yet, but they do have access to my flowergarden and they love to pick in the dirt there so I think they might get enough "grit" from that, am I correct? What went wrong with her? She was significally smaller and just now lost all her fuss on her head, att 8-9 weeks which is much later than all the other ones.
Please give me some ideas as what went wrong and what I can do to make sure it won't happen again.
Petra
I am totally new to this forum and to chicken keeping, and to our horror we came home tonight to hear that our little runt Saturday (cause we got her on a saturday) was dead. I have no idea what happened. We live in Houston, TX so it is hot here all the time, but I do have fan on in their run/coop, so they can somewhat cool themselves off.
I still have 3 Buff orpingtons and 4 Australorps, what do I do to make sure they won't die?
They are on grower feed and have been for a few weeks, before that they were on starter. I also give them frozen watermelon slices to cool off, as well as renewing their water in the middle of the day so it satys drinkable and coolish (?). I haven't started grit yet, but they do have access to my flowergarden and they love to pick in the dirt there so I think they might get enough "grit" from that, am I correct? What went wrong with her? She was significally smaller and just now lost all her fuss on her head, att 8-9 weeks which is much later than all the other ones.
Please give me some ideas as what went wrong and what I can do to make sure it won't happen again.
Petra