My son names our pets mostly. He typically goes with a theme. One year he chose candy names: Snickers, Butterscotch, Taffy, Cocoa, Chocolate, Oreo. Another set was based on color: Onyx, Raven, Pepper, Banana, Pyro,and the odd name based on what he was studying in history - Ming. Other times...
Buff Orpingtons have always been my most insistent setters until we got a group of Black Australorps. BA are supposed to be ambivalent to setting. Mine are even more broody than BO. And last fall I purchased 4 BA to start my “in town” flock. They will definitely be broody too. I set a pile of...
Pepper has a small, hard yellowish scabbed spot above her left nostril. It looks like it has a fistula below it. Slightly swollen though not extremely tender. Nothing abnormal in her mouth but she seems to be having slight respiratory distress. But maybe she’s hot. Perky, normal appetite, etc...
