Recent content by Silvija

Thank you for ideas. Fatty liver hemmoragic disease do not fit, liver looks normal to me and I almost do not treat. Chicken feed and grass is all they get. Aortic rupture might be, that I will never know. I'll check on fats though since I changed chicken feed to less expensive one, maybe too...

I opened up my boy just yet and found way to much coagulated blood in abdomen cavity. Some injury which caused internal bleeding maybe? And my girl was just starting to lay eggs and died. Checked for egg bound but found nothing yet maybe it could be related? Would appreciate for some ideas or...

Thank you so much! I did not know about chicken starter being bad for guinea keets. Will buy something better this year. I have oyster shells always and no mealwarms. Maybe coccidia then...

Hello there, I'm new to guinea, had four of them for a year, now only two left. A boy and a girl died very suddenly, running happily one day, dead the next. After some reading and talking with poultry keepers I came to believe they are hardy birds. I came to expect a sudden death from a...

Well thats interesting. We are building a big chicken run anyway, I am pretty sure it's clean. At least previous owners of our new farm kept poultry in that place and horses before them. Never thought to worry about soil poisoning.

Thanks ronott1, I will see what I can do in my country about parasites. Led or other things because of free ranging I do not think so, it's a very clean place. We drink watter from a well couse it's very clean.

Roo is no more than 2 years old, more like year and a half. Chick with three legs I am yet to see and hope I wil not :D

Thank you for the ansver. No tail on a rooster but also no tufts so I don't know if its true araucana. They are called araucanas in Lithuania (Europe) were I am from. I understood that letal gene comes with tufts... My hens get chicken food, but not always for layers cause I have hens and...

Hello there, I'm trying to figure out why chicks from my own flock keep dying. I raised quite a few this year, both bought as chicks and hached in incubator by my self, with diferrent results (some very good), but none as bad as chicks from my flock. Even incubated by chicken seemed to be very...

Hi there! I am rather new to both byc and keeping chickens and I find this place wonderfull for all the questions I have. People here are very friendly and ready to help, I'm sure you will like it here. I keep bantams and yes, roos are quite noisy. Not sure if hens alone would be that noisy but...

So one coop for one hen at a time. My flock isn't big also, ten hens and one roo. I like the idea of separate coop for hen and chicks, I think it's the easyest way to keep them safe. Thanks!

Thank you both for the answers! I am srarting to have some kind of idea what to do. If I deside to build a small coop for broody hens with secure run just for them can I keep all hens in a same space? Like one coop for the flock and one for all hens that go broody? We are lucky with predators...

I live in central Europe, Lithuania, near Baltic sea. We have polecats here as a main small predator killing chickens. I have a mixed breeds mostly but there are two kochins so I guess they will want to sit. And yes, there is a rooster. My nest boxes are about 18" hign too so if chicks can get...

Hello, I'm first time chicken keeper and this spring will be my first to have hens with chicks. There are few things I can not figure out and I would appreciate some ideas. We are about to build rather big chicken run. It's going to be not less than 2 ares, maybe even 3 which is around 2000 to...

Maybe it was someones ellse post... I have oild filled one so might work in a colder night