Posts by CountryKitty

Hmmmm...slate legs...could he perhaps be an easter egger? They're often sold as ameraucanas but don't hold to type, so even though he has an erect single comb I have to wonder. They do often have those red patches on the shoulders.

It was very late summer when I took in the rabbits; This was in Central Texas and the temperatures were already in the upper 90's to low 100's. It was way past time for them to shed.   Thanks for the info about sweating and...

Bless you for tryingto help her...and for being strong enough to end her pain when you thought there was no other way to help her.   For what it's worth, I took in 3 rabbits temporarily after a house fire. They were in small...

Ditto what the others have said about a New Hampshire mix. I had one for 10 years--same behaviors as yours: protective without any people aggression, tidbitting...and was so used to my big German shepherd trotting around that when a...

Muscovies will make a nest anywhere they feel like they won't be disturbed or they feel safe. Your girls may be under a shed, in a hollow log, under a parts car, in the shrubbery beside the house--you name it.  Someone on another...

I rescued an adult wild dove with a really bad leg a few years ago. I took him to a reahabber who was very happy to have him. She said that while he probably couldn't be released, she regularly got baby wild doves, and having an adult...

I have one EE pullet that has green legs like her more typical sisters, but no muff or beard--it's the only visible EE trait on her--but none of my EE's has much in the way of tails at 3 months old. Not even the 2 cockerels. What...

I have some OEGB (my first batch) and they're about 3 months old, and the feathering looks the same as your lovely trio. They still chirp, although a couple have started to crow on very rare occasion. A couple of mine are bluebird...

We have an instinct to nurture the helpless--thnk of how helpless human infants are for the first year of life. It's not a bad thing, just a bit painful at times.

While I haven't had this issue with any of my birds, I am an RN. Mutliple ligaments hold limbs in their apropriate place--any limb out of joint on a human involves torn ligaments which sometimes take longer to heal than a cleanly...