Can Self-Waterers Poison Water?
Hi, everybody. I am new to chickens and lost my flock of eight chickens yesterday. I didn’t check them until late in the day, and I hadn’t checked them the day before, but the day before that, they appeared to be healthy and doing great. Yesterday, when I checked them, they were all dead. The two who wander my yard (Brown Brahmas is that right?) and are my pets had been walking around the house in the rain, being really funny, and that afternoon, one was crumpled in the yard, dead, and the other was suffering in the weeds. I thought the dog got them, because I lost two like that a few weeks ago. But last night, I went up to change the water and feed them, and the house was empty. No signs of chicks, then I began to find them. If they were dead, they were laid out like rubber chickens. Sometimes, the heads tucked under, as if they had flopped over first. The one I found that was alive was like the one in the yard, suffering in the weeds, in sitting position, breathing heavily. It’s not