Well the sick-ish chick has improved a bit and can keep up with the other chicks a bit better now and they all hang around the mother doing their own thing an they often lie down to sleep in the sun.
We just put the chick back into the cage and idk, she knows its there because she did a growly (protective, wud u doing with my chicks, back off)sort of cluck and approached me when I took it out and put it back in but she isn't hurting it or anything. She'll move away and the other chicks will...
So today is the first day our 5 partidge plymouth chicks have gone outside and their bantam mum, Sally, is looking after them. They have food and water outside and shade and sun and they can, of course, go inside the coop if its too hot outside. The nesting boxes are on the ground with the...
They were born on the 1st of September, so they are almost 3 months old and they are Silkie crosses.
They look almost identical in terms of combs and wattles but obviously, have different colouring (see attached pic), the first pic was taken on the 12th of November and the rest of them were...
They aren't very tame so I will have to wait until tonight when she's in the coop to get another close up of her comb.
Here's a picture from the 12th of November, sorry it's not a close up but you can see her comb there.
Hello there, we think we have a sick bantam. We have two adult silkie bantams and two young ones.
The oldest silkie bantam has been lethargic for about 2-3 weeks now and her comb has gone a bit floppy and has paled with dark spots on it (see picture below). We think she may have fowl pox but we...