Recent content by floridahenhouse

We have an Ameraucana rooster that is suddenly unable to stand up. He "walks" around on his legs but cannot stand. Inspection does not show any injuries; he eats and drinks water; seems normal except for an inability to stand. Anyone know what may be the cause?

would love to do that but we have too many coyotes, hawks and owls in the area. Thanks.

We are new to Bantams and are really surprised by the length of the nails on their toes compared to our full-size birds. Some of them are so long that they are starting to curl sideways. Is this normal? Does anyone clip the nails?

Even though this thread is four years old, I hope there are still some people looking at it. We have a flock of both regular size birds and also bantams - mostly for the eggs but we have raised a few food chickens, too. Our egg customers asked about "chocolate eggs" so we purchased two Marans...