Just to be clear ... The pictures above are of the same chick. This is the other chick. She is a little taller and does not have feathers on her legs (yet?)
I have 2 chicks that are supposed to be black australorps but I just noticed one has leg feathers sprouting and the other doesn't? Are they 2 different breeds? What are they?
Oh no! I hope it wasn't a BB gun. My husband just told me the neighbor boy just got a BB gun. I can't imagine he would do anything like that on purpose though. I really hope not!
We are so distraught! We just found our almost 1 year old Barred Rock dead with no sign of anything wrong except for a small matted area in her chest feathers with a small puncture wound a little smaller than a pencil eraser. We have no idea what could have happened but we have 2 others and we...