awesome what a relief haha, the cockerel here starts crowing at 3:30am i couldn't imagine 2 of them going all morning, i would never get any sleep hahaha, thanks so much everyone :)
Was given this "hen" the other day the woman assured my mother it was a hen but its tail looks a lot like the start of a cockerel tail, it sounds like a hen and hasn't tried to fight the other cockerel that is here, i was told it's around 16 weeks old, it doesn't have the pointed saddle feathers...
I was wrong, it turned out to be botulism, i took him to an avian vet he had to stay there for 2 days they had him on a drip and had to tube feed him, but he is eating and drinking on his own again so he got to come home, im so happy he is doing better, cost more than $500 but it was worth every...
Pedro survived another night but he still isn't doing well, i don't think he has been drinking and this is the second day he hasn't eaten, should i use a syringe and drop some vitamin and mineral water into his mouth?
i'm pretty sure it's heat stroke, i dont have any electrolytes, i do have a bird vitamin and mineral mix, not sure if it will help or not, no apple cider vinegar either
I found my beloved Muscovy drake Pedro laying in some bushes yesterday afternoon, i saw him laying there a few hours earlier and thought all was well so i left him, when i came back he started trying to run away but he is stumbling and running into things, it was extremely hot yesterday so i...
great :) the grey one just looks like a smaller version of the white one so i'd say they are both EE, the black one and white one kind of stand up tall to eachother sometimes, which looks like rooster behavior, but i'm not sure if hens do that as well, haven't had chickens for a long time