I just thought I'd post a picture of my baby Cinder's beautiful eyes! She's a Sapphire Gem with central heterochromia.
She's also my sweet little shadow, one of the three babies I hand raised this summer who follows me everywhere. ❤️
Anyone else have a chicken with unique eyes? I'd love to...
Thank you! And yep, Poppy was a Buff Orpington! She passed very suddenly recently, this was one of the last photos I took of my sweet girl ❤️
Juniper is an ornery Australorp, Daisy is also a sweet little Buff Orpington, Cinder is a Sapphire Gem who loves to honk, and Mabel is a Red Sexlink who...
Just had to share the funny little anomaly that is Owl, our little Barred Plymouth Rock girl. When she was a chick, she had just a bit of fluff on both her legs that went away fairly quickly. But now, at 8 weeks, she has grown two little feathers on only one foot. It is the funniest looking...
So I have three 4 week old chicks (exactly 28 days today), one barred rock (Owl), one sapphire gem (Cinder), and one buff orpington (Daisy). The orpington I'm not concerned about, as I'm about 99% certain she's a pullet. The barred rock I vacillated on for a while due to temperament and a more...
So sorry to hear your girl is having crop troubles, it can be tough!
One of our old girls (who sadly eventually passed of heart failure) had similar issues with chronic sour crop. I was finally able to successfully treat it using avian Medistatin mixed in water and dripped into her beak via a...
Hopefully this is the right place to plop this information!
I've noticed a lot of fellow chicken tenders on here having trouble with obtaining medications like antibiotics, Corid, permethrine, etc. to treat their chickens (especially those rural folks who, like me, don't have access to an...