I wanted to make sure all our BYC members and their friends and family are OK after the Vegas shooting. My cousin was at that concert and he escaped with his life. I FaceTimed him the morning after the shooting, and when I saw his face in my phone, I just started bawling. I'm an only child, but...
I've started checking her over daily. Her poop was a bit runny, but nothing I've never seen before. Her comb and wattles are a bit pale, but nothing else seems to be wrong.
They are usually all underneath the coop squawking, waiting for me to open the door so they can go outside. She was standing under the ramp, and looked sleepy.
So yesterday Joy was fine. This morning, she was standing under the coop, doing nothing. She ate a little bit, but otherwise just stood there. I mixed up some electrolytes and went out to give them to her, when I found her happily dust bathing with her sisters. What happened?
My fiance worked at a reptile sanctuary during college and handled poisonous snakes, and he came up with an idea. He picked her up and gently but firmly grabbed the feathers right behind her comb, then pushed her head down. He said this is done all the time with snakes, grabbing behind the head...
This is Theophania Isabelle, also known as Tiffany. Photo taken August 2017
She is an 9 month old, laying Buff Orp. She used to be my sweetest chicken. But that has changed over the past few days.
It has gotten to the point where I'm actually scared of her. She is so aggressive, it's scary. I...