Well thank God for the cookie tin heaters! No frozen water! What a relief. The Modern pair even have a 12" tall "popcorn tin heater" (June's idea) that has a bulb in it. They curl up all cozy on top of it. Jan, I'm glad you're happy about your chickens and I wish you the best but I wouldn't have risked it, I'd have been WAY too scared the city would make me get rid of them again. That'd be so hard for your husband to deal with again. I'm not a risk-taker at all.
Robin, I don't know about your hen. It cerainly *could be kidney failure but I'd be wondering about some sort of bacteria (like e. Coli) causing all the seemingly unrelated deaths. E. coli causes respiratory disease in their air sacs or sudden death, brown pudding looking diarrhea and also causes organ failure, several different things. It's one of the most common illnesses yet causes so many different symtoms that people don't connect the dots. They just chalk it up to "she just died out of the blue". We may never find out why our birds die, but they didn't just die out of the blue, there was a reason.
I've been saving money in an envelope for months to get my 2 Ringneck Dove girls this cage. It was on Ebay for $120 I love it! It's really heavy, the cage area is 32"x 20" x 36" tall and sits on a shelf thing with wheels on it. I can't believe how heavy and strong it is. I've had the 1 Dove for 6 1/2 yrs, she's earned a nice cage after all that time. Once it gets warm I'm making them a covered area outside. Channing (my Serama) is going to share their area when it's nice out
Robin, I don't know about your hen. It cerainly *could be kidney failure but I'd be wondering about some sort of bacteria (like e. Coli) causing all the seemingly unrelated deaths. E. coli causes respiratory disease in their air sacs or sudden death, brown pudding looking diarrhea and also causes organ failure, several different things. It's one of the most common illnesses yet causes so many different symtoms that people don't connect the dots. They just chalk it up to "she just died out of the blue". We may never find out why our birds die, but they didn't just die out of the blue, there was a reason.
I've been saving money in an envelope for months to get my 2 Ringneck Dove girls this cage. It was on Ebay for $120 I love it! It's really heavy, the cage area is 32"x 20" x 36" tall and sits on a shelf thing with wheels on it. I can't believe how heavy and strong it is. I've had the 1 Dove for 6 1/2 yrs, she's earned a nice cage after all that time. Once it gets warm I'm making them a covered area outside. Channing (my Serama) is going to share their area when it's nice out
