Notes from the wilderness!!!

**Me78569** · October 18, 2016

Came home yesterday and found a chicken laying dead in the middle of the pen. No signs of struggle, no blood, no feathers. Pretty odd, but it's a chicken so who knows.

Hawkez · October 18, 2016

I had a group of birds that I bought from the same hatchery out of Idaho. Out of the 20 that I bought, 6 died in the first 5 weeks. It was really strange. When I noticed that the last one was on her way out I decided to put open it up to look at her organs. The liver was extremely discolored and the heart was small and almost deflated. I don't know what would cause any of this, and I never had any other issues like this from other birds from this hatchery. I assume I got a few that had bad genetics. It can be frustrating when your birds seem to die for no reason and nothing you can do about it.

**Me78569** · October 18, 2016

Yea it was strange, this one was a 2 years old, had been laying up to 2 days ago and looked / acted healthly.

Thankfully we don't actually need 5 chickens, 3 is plenty for our needs.

Hawkez · November 23, 2016

My family spent our day yesterday getting birds ready for Thanksgiving. My boys have been raising these turkeys since August and they finished out really well.