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We have a flock of 11 gold deathlayers, all of whom don’t exhibit any signs of illness. We recently started hatching small clutches to test their egg fertility and so far it’s been going great! However on our latest batch that hatched a couple days days ago, one of the chicks came out of the...

Thank you all for the thoughts! Here’s a little update. Looked down his throat, nothing out of the ordinary, there. Acting totally normal and talkative, but still wheezing and getting little sneezing fits. We’ve treated him with Baytril but that didn’t seem to do anything, gonna treat with...

It’s been very humid, temps fluctuating between 80s - high 90s the past few weeks. With a couple random short storms thrown in. So, unpredictable. :lol: Love how knowledge spreads like that!

His ears look clean (I didn’t know that was a thing I could check, so thank you for that!), and his poop is normal.

About two and a half weeks ago I noticed one of our gold deathlayer cockerels wheezing while breathing. He seemed fine otherwise so I cleaned their coop extra well to get rid of any accumulated dust. Figured it must have been either because of that or perhaps a case of stridor. We gave him a...

Yes, the plan is to butcher the roosters when they get closer to full grown while keeping the hens. He wanted to grow his flock very quickly but did not realize the hatch rate is ~50/50. We did our first round of butchering just a few weeks ago. Thanks for the info on keeping cockerels. We do...

Thank you for the advice! I ordered some Aqua mox to try out, should be here within the next day or two.

Where to start with this? 😥 Sorry in advance for the long post but I feel context is needed. Basically my wife and I are the designated chicken caretakers of the household, so while we have our own flock, we also take care of her father’s (who has next to no experience with chickens and...

Thank you! His name is Puff. 🥰

Hello! I know I’m brand new here but I can’t think of anywhere better to post this as we are in rural Southeast Missouri and I can’t see these having a lot of interest locally. 😅 We have about 10-12 seven week old gold deathlayer cockerels available (some are still filling out, hence the...

Thank you! It’s great to be here.

Hi all! We have been browsing this site many MANY times over the past year as we moved from California to Missouri and immediately began raising chickens with zero experience. 😂 (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? It has been just over 1 year since we got our first...