Any update on this chick? I have a baby with a very similar looking pecking injury. I hosted a wedding at my house and I believe it stressed my chicken and they attacked my little lady. I'm a nurse so I'm pretty good with human wounds... hoping that helps me with my chick!
Just hoping to know...
Update in case anyone looks at this later.
They are now over 6 months old. They are not cuckoo marans at all, they are all black. None of them can walk. I've tried everything I could find on here and they just seem to be slowly becoming paralyzed. I've decided to cull them after 6 months of...
Got a group of backyard mixes, the man who had them says this one is at least part, if not full blooded white leg horn. He wasn't sure the exact age, but it was hatched out this spring/early summer. He had a barn of hundreds so there was really no way of knowing.
After I got it home I noticed...
hello everyone,
I have a marans chick 12-14 weeks old who I just noticed today is walking on her knees. She and another chick from the same batch have never acted normal since the day I bought them home. I posted about them when they were 5-6 weeks old that they weren't very active and the...
Thank you! I was also thinking black copper. Is it concerning that only one has feathered legs? They were straight run so I'm think that maybe the 2 getting copper feathers are roos?
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I bought 3 chick's from the feed store that were sold as cuckoo marans. They are now around 6 weeks old (I've had them for 4 weeks but they were older chick's when I got them). They are clearly not cuckoo marans, but what are they? Only 1 has feathered legs and 2 are developing copper...
I'm very new to this, but we have the same situation. I decided not to split them up and I've found that the smaller chicks are thriving and the larger ones haven't trampled them at all.