I’m sorry you lost your flock. The chicken can seem so durable and tough, it’s easy to forget they need certain conditions present in order to thrive, just like we do.
Always be aware of who is using RoundUp pesticide in your area, and how close that vegetation is to your situation.
This is something you probably know much more about than I do. I’ve never raised chickens.
Thank you. It was pretty rough. I enjoyed going to visit in the morning and also feeding them things from the garden. It was a soil borne illness that went around this spring as it was unusually wet.
We weren’t actually allowed backyard chickens in our neighborhood - but I formed a co-op (COOP, LOL) with my next door neighbor, and we had them anyway. The other neighbors were cool about it. They kind of liked knowing they were there.