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WOW this is so cool to find out what on earth these guys are. When I first saw your Highme I said: thats Limpy! I need to take a new picture, that one is 1 yr old. He is more beautiful now. I personally feed him so he all the good stuff my birdies get. I wish he could live at home with me but he is a ghetto blaster/boom box noise maker SO he has to live at the stables where my horse is. I don't think my neighbors would take too kindly to his talking.
About Pharow, someone told me he had polish because of the toppie, its nice to find out he is OEGB & AGF. He is a fighting fool when by another rooster but with me he is a teddy bear. Likes to be held on his back and have his feet rubbed.....
I have a question; little Missy does not make noises and does not lay eggs. I have only had her for a month now and she is still getting her vim & vigor built up. Is there any way to tell how old a bird is?? I am just curious. She will stay with me until she dies. She cannot roost, nor climb the ramp to the coop and I am afraid to place her in there with all the other gremlins overnight so she comes in the house with me and we hang together in the evening. She loves watching TV on my lap. I am a softee.
To be truly honest I am not sure...They all appear to be young like less than two. With that particular bird, aging would proably be a hard task but I would say she is young. Read this thread...it may help.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=34217
With special needs chickens, we know there is a problem with the brain but what we sometimes fail to realize is that there can be physical complications as well. For instance, not laying (i'd expect an egg any day, you've had her a month and it's spring) that could be a physical problem maybe with her reproductive organs. Her comb and wattles may not grow ore grow too large. Do you know how she got this problem (car accident? Dog?) that may help figure out why she's not laying. I'll try to find a better answer to this question if that link doesn't help. LET ME KNOW!
Good Luck
BantamWyandotte
Little Missy originally came from the dog pound (believe it or not). My neighbor, who picked her up, thought she was a baby and he had her about a year [he thinks] and she never grew. There is no history on her so I have no idea what could have happened to her. Physical problems present as; uncoordinated walking, bowlegged appearance when walking, legs too far apart. She does high stepping when she does trot, and she doesn't seem have good control over the muscles. Her feet are slightly misshaped, but she does have alot of gripping strength in them. When eating she has trouble gauging the distance to the water & food. When she first came to me she could barely stand, let alone walk. It took about 2 weeks of tons of good quality food and TLC to get her walking better. She also never preened herself and was a mass of tubes. I preened her every AM and broke up all those wax tubes. Now she does it herself. Her poops were very strange looking and she always verbally squeaked when she did poop a watery mess with tiny little solids in it. I give her extra protien and yogurt as well and the poops are slowly getting more normal looking with less verbal squeaking from her. Even tho she is high maitanence, she is so worth it to me.
And she will never ever set foot in a wire bottom cage again, thats my promise to her.
P.S. I hope I was not too long winded.......
WOW this is so cool to find out what on earth these guys are. When I first saw your Highme I said: thats Limpy! I need to take a new picture, that one is 1 yr old. He is more beautiful now. I personally feed him so he all the good stuff my birdies get. I wish he could live at home with me but he is a ghetto blaster/boom box noise maker SO he has to live at the stables where my horse is. I don't think my neighbors would take too kindly to his talking.
About Pharow, someone told me he had polish because of the toppie, its nice to find out he is OEGB & AGF. He is a fighting fool when by another rooster but with me he is a teddy bear. Likes to be held on his back and have his feet rubbed.....
I have a question; little Missy does not make noises and does not lay eggs. I have only had her for a month now and she is still getting her vim & vigor built up. Is there any way to tell how old a bird is?? I am just curious. She will stay with me until she dies. She cannot roost, nor climb the ramp to the coop and I am afraid to place her in there with all the other gremlins overnight so she comes in the house with me and we hang together in the evening. She loves watching TV on my lap. I am a softee.
To be truly honest I am not sure...They all appear to be young like less than two. With that particular bird, aging would proably be a hard task but I would say she is young. Read this thread...it may help.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=34217
With special needs chickens, we know there is a problem with the brain but what we sometimes fail to realize is that there can be physical complications as well. For instance, not laying (i'd expect an egg any day, you've had her a month and it's spring) that could be a physical problem maybe with her reproductive organs. Her comb and wattles may not grow ore grow too large. Do you know how she got this problem (car accident? Dog?) that may help figure out why she's not laying. I'll try to find a better answer to this question if that link doesn't help. LET ME KNOW!
Good Luck
BantamWyandotte
Little Missy originally came from the dog pound (believe it or not). My neighbor, who picked her up, thought she was a baby and he had her about a year [he thinks] and she never grew. There is no history on her so I have no idea what could have happened to her. Physical problems present as; uncoordinated walking, bowlegged appearance when walking, legs too far apart. She does high stepping when she does trot, and she doesn't seem have good control over the muscles. Her feet are slightly misshaped, but she does have alot of gripping strength in them. When eating she has trouble gauging the distance to the water & food. When she first came to me she could barely stand, let alone walk. It took about 2 weeks of tons of good quality food and TLC to get her walking better. She also never preened herself and was a mass of tubes. I preened her every AM and broke up all those wax tubes. Now she does it herself. Her poops were very strange looking and she always verbally squeaked when she did poop a watery mess with tiny little solids in it. I give her extra protien and yogurt as well and the poops are slowly getting more normal looking with less verbal squeaking from her. Even tho she is high maitanence, she is so worth it to me.
And she will never ever set foot in a wire bottom cage again, thats my promise to her.
P.S. I hope I was not too long winded.......
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