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Thanks! They made a complete recovery! Think maybe it was a nutrition problem but aren't sure.

LOL, it's going to be perfect I'm sure and I can't wait, we didn't get to them this morning though!

Well, all the chickens are looking back to normal this morning! Even my roo whose toes had gotten curled up and couldn't walk is up on his feet looking normal. All we did was quarantine and give nutridrench once a day so who knows.

We have 11 total chickens they are about 6 months old. 2 are roosters, one rooster and two hens are sick the other 8 seem completely fine so far. The more I read, the more it sounds like it could be ANYTHING which is frustrating. We've wondered if they ate something poisonous, we have a compost...

Thank you! They have not been medicated as of yet so that answers my egg question, we'll have yummy breakfast tomorrow morning Still feel weird about eating the meat of a sick bird, but again, they aren't medicated, and all of you responses are reassuring. This morning one of the hens was...

I'm sorry you lost him

Thanks so much for the advice! I will definitely open those back up and see if we need to put in more.

In this picture all of the vents are completely open.

I've been wondering if we have adequate ventilation. When it got chilly we closed some of the vent doors because we were worried about cold air blowing right down on them. This is our coop, you can see the small vent hole in the taller part of the coop, there is one like it on the other side...

Thank you for the advice! And lazy gardener for the encouragement! We are feeling exactly that, we've worked too hard to just waste eggs and birds...but want to make sure we're being safe too, we've never done this before. We haven't used any medications on them yet. Yesterday the one roo and 2...

We are new to chickens and our chickens just started laying reliably a week ago. We were planning on eating some of their eggs this weekend but three of them started showing health issues yesterday that made me wonder if this is safe? When should eggs not be eaten, can sicknesses get into eggs...

Read up on chick care, lots of helpful information posted here. They need to be kept very warm until they are fully feathered and if he's bunching up with other chicks he may just be trying to keep warm. They also sleep a lot but if he seems sleepier than normal check to make sure he doesn't...

Today we had one of our roosters and 2 hens become lethargic and have runny white poo. As soon as I noticed I quarantined them and gave them nutri-drench. Tomorrow we will try to get something to treat for worms and cocci, which seems to be the recommendation I'm finding here on other threads...

Mine have access to their feed all day too and water. We put it up at night just because it sits outside and we don't want to attract wild animals. We also put grit out for them all the time. I don't know about the runny nose. I've never noticed runny noses on ours, even the roo that had the...

I got Nutri-Drench at Tractor Supply

I'm guessing it's something you can get at Tractor Supply or farmer's coop?

We are pretty new to chickens but we had a young roo who experienced impacted crop. The way it went down with him was that he started acting sick and then we felt his crop and realized it was super mooshy and impacted. I've seen our chickens since then have a visible lump and then it goes away...

I think if you can get your hands on what cafarmgirl mentioned she gave some solid advice. You might also check his crop. The rooster we have that is sick right now was sick as a younger chick with falling down and acting strangely, not able to hold head up and it ended up being an impacted...

This sounds like exactly what I logged in to find info on. We have a rooster and 2 hens who all of a sudden today started showing these signs. We've quarantined the three.

We got our first two eggs from our mixed flock of EEs and Wyandottes a few weeks ago (about 23 weeks old now) but have seen nothing since. Is this because it's getting colder or should I be scouring the yard in search of eggs?