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My buttercup cross is the one between the Cochin feet. That little chick made it all the way up 5 1/2 feet to the high roost before she was even feathered. The prednaseca chicks I have my pure bred buttercup raising won’t roost yet. Buttercup Mom been trying to get them to for more than a week...

Yes my buttercup cross has weened its self from mom already and she’s like 3 weeks!

Making a tie out for the worst ones might work.

My pit/ lab mix is great as livestock guardian. I also had a pit bull that would let my cockatiel land on him and by him.

Pullets I think they just had a cranky phase right before they started laying.

My African goose eats small frogs but it’s in a flock of chickens so maybe that’s why.

I wish I was closer a hawk got my buttercup cockerel.

I think round worm?

I have check her droppings so many times never saw them before. I feel like such a bad chicken mom. I guess I made the right choice in throwing the kitchen sink of crop treatments at her.

Omg she is absolutely FULL of worms I feel so so so so bad. I just checked her droppings three giant threads of worms

Thank you for that link and all the advice Today I’m going to work on turning the child sized mask into a better fitting crop bra. I couldn’t find her this morning out in the yard was worried but she popped up and was NOT wanting to let me pick her up! She seems to feel better than yesterday...

Simone letting me know she wants to hop up and Simone doing her best parrot impression. In my opinion they are great for free ranging smart and tolerant of the extreme Texas heat.

Wow my buttercup lays nearly daily and is my smartest chicken! She is very bossy and comes up to the door checks all the windows until she see someone to beg. Not for treats but to be let into the garage which is her favorite place to lay her eggs. She is always talking in her weird little voice...

Thank you. I have read that article before. Her crop at times is completely blown up like water balloon. It’s mostly very large and mushy. If I support it with my hand and raise it up it begins to empty. She does it herself as well by laying down a certain way and manipulating her neck and...

She has always had brittle oddly curved feathers and was the only chick that got coccidossis symptoms this summer. Today she was leaking water again from her beak which happened also 2 weeks ago. Today I gave her ducolax. I have tried monistat before but I don’t believe she was getting the right...