momof6kiddos
Hatching
- Aug 6, 2017
- 5
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Hello,
I’m not sure if I am posting this in the right area, however I am hoping that somebody can help me out. We have only had our chickens for about eight months so we are fairly new to this whole thing, but we keep losing our hens. It always seems to start the same way… One of them will be limping and appear to have a hurt leg, and they basically go downhill from there and end up dying. We’ve separated the hurt from the flock...it never seems to help. There are never any other symptoms. Just a hurt leg and they cannot walk. It always happens one at a time too!! Which I find a bit odd. We started with 14 chickens and were now down to 7. It’s so sad and frustrating and it is devastating to my children. We do have 1 rooster in with the hens. Any suggestions as to what could be happening would be greatly appreciated. I don’t want to loose any more hens.
I’m not sure if I am posting this in the right area, however I am hoping that somebody can help me out. We have only had our chickens for about eight months so we are fairly new to this whole thing, but we keep losing our hens. It always seems to start the same way… One of them will be limping and appear to have a hurt leg, and they basically go downhill from there and end up dying. We’ve separated the hurt from the flock...it never seems to help. There are never any other symptoms. Just a hurt leg and they cannot walk. It always happens one at a time too!! Which I find a bit odd. We started with 14 chickens and were now down to 7. It’s so sad and frustrating and it is devastating to my children. We do have 1 rooster in with the hens. Any suggestions as to what could be happening would be greatly appreciated. I don’t want to loose any more hens.