Recent content by TxChris

I had a very special chicken teach me a very hard lesson once. Mean girls will always be mean. So now I have a firm, "get along or get gone" rule. Cats, dogs, chickens. The rule applies equally and they all know their place. Except the chickens think they're dogs, the dogs think the chickens...

Texas does have an option to report, and I've beaten myself up on what I should do.

Sorry for the confusion. They were sick when I brought them home. They were kept in my garage because they were sick, which I didn't know beforehand. But no, there were no chemicals or contaminants in the garage.

Maybe I'll read a little more before tossing it- but I would only be doing it to bring to a wooded area for the wild. I just feel awful wasting it.

Yes, I'll just throw it out. I can't risk getting wild animals sick, either. I took them back, they didn't die in my care. In hindsight, I should have culled and sent one off. I'm sure she put them back with her other chickens or culled and trashed them anyhow. I mean, they were already paid...

I agree, no sense in holding onto it. I feel bad chunking food like that, but I wouldn't want to put it out for wild animals, either- just in case. The farm let me bring them back. She said she would "treat them", which was her way to justify keeping my money. I'm sure she culled them. I...

I bought the chickens from a chicken farm, they were already sick. I knew as soon as I got down the road with them :( It wasn't from my feed. My flock is great. I had to unexpectedly keep them in my garage, rather than the separate run/coop I built for them, so I pulled a bag out there. The...

I had posted before about (unknowingly) buying sick chickens- Well, I threw everything away, EVERYTHING- except a bag of feed. It was a brand new bag of Kalmbach I had opened for them. I poured some into a feeder, and the bag was off to the side but I'm a moron and left it open. They were in...

It doesn't look like bumble to me. Is there a hard, dark "scab"? Hard to tell how swollen it is with no comparison at the same angles/lighting. The red spot looks irritated, or perhaps an old scab that's healed? How is she walking? It's hard to prevent digging injuries, but any of the main...

Long- thanks in advance. On 12/23 I went to pick up three 10 month old Barred Rocks from a chicken farm. When I arrive to pick them up, they were wet, muddy, and smelled awful. Plucked saddles, disheveled feathers, fowl pox and dry combs. I had driven an hour for them and I have a bleeding...