Last night, our rooster (6 months old) decided that he was NOT going to join The Ladies in the coop-yard at dusk! He remained in the garden and continued to cluck-cluck-cluck loudly, calling to our 15 hens to ‘return’ to him. Remaining unfazed by offers of scratch & avoiding being corralled...
Yesterday, one of our sweetest chickens, Margaret, seems to have caught her largest toe in something (?) and has apparently broken it at the base joint; her toe is swollen and she can't use it. There is a wound at the base of the toe where she most likely caught the toe.
We've soaked her foot...
We have a large, gentle Buff Orpington Chicken (about 9 pounds) that is 1.5 years old. Her strange behavior: she regularly climbs into one of the nesting boxes, 'sits' intently for an hour, gets off the nest and makes a Huge Fuss as though she has laid the biggest egg ever! NEVER is there an egg...