Why would you cull them? I have had "meat birds" as pets, and they turned out to be the best pet chickens there was, along with being a good extra large egg layer.
It seems that you have a pretty common group here, imo i see buff orps, rir, maybe a wyndott or 2 a polish or may be a Cream crested legbar, a barred rock or plymoth barred. But, I am surely not the breed specialist here haha.
I'll be honest here, I have no idea what that is. It almost looks like a sac of blood and/or puss and blood, but I am no vet, but it looks like just a growth of infection. Again not sure. And i don't blame you for not wanting to mess with it anymore. But i would give it a few days, if it doesn't...
Interesting. I guess i never really had a "special technique" when it comes to training chickens, they just seem to want to do it. I have either gotten lucky with the birds i have trained or, i just have a special bond with them in general. I do know that the people at the poultry auction call...
Well i wish you the best of luck :) sometimes at home things are a bit more relaxed and easier to handle. However, unless your chicken has a bond with you, following you in a public place and staying with you is a little more hectic. When i first started taking Snowflake out in public he did...