Hard the leghorn is the worst and it felt like she swallowed a golf ball. I panicked and thought "tumor" and got all worried... First time chicken momma lol
I was about to take all my girls out for a day trip bc it's pretty outside, and I noticed my white leghorn has a serious growth/swelling/something on her right side of her breast! (Left side in the pic) after looking closer, a lot of the girls have them, just not to her extent, so I'm hoping...
The chicks aren't all the same age or size, the first six (white leghorn, Rhode Island Red, black sex star, and 3 Americaunas) were supposedly a week old when I got them but they are all feathered out now except a few tufts of baby fluff left, but the sex star is half the size of the others from...
I'm nervous to break them up bc I've read I'd have to reintroduce them to each other of I did that. I'm expecting them to go outside to the big coop I made in the next two weeks or so.
They are in the biggest tote Walmart had, I could hardly get it in my car to bring it home, and it has slightly less floor space than the cardboard box they were in. But coop is big, I just have more work to do bc the doors don't close right (warped plywood)
And the Wyandottes are so much more standoffish than the others... I tried to pick breeds known to be friendly, Wyandottes, buff orps, Americauna, and lights Brahmas... But I ended up with a white leghorn, Rhode Island Red, and a black sex star too, and the red and leghorn are the least panicked...
My chicks were friendly and ate out of my hand, except the Wyandottes, they have never ate from my hand. Now half of them are big enough they are jumping out of the box and I just had all kinds of trouble catching it. The box is now covered but the chicks are getting way more wild and I'm...
If I'm not home the dogs get pinned up where they can't get to them, but I'm a stay at home mom so that doesn't happen much. This happened while I was home and I was sure poor thing was dead when I found her, but I didn't even hear an unusually loud ruckus from in there.
Chick looks rough, but she's gonna be fine. The dogs did more licking and plucking than anything, so she's missing feathers but eating, drinking, and back in with the other chicks now. I tried putting her in a box beside them and she wouldn't have it. [/IMG]
Apparently my white leghorn (my favorite and most friendly chick) jumped out of the box and my dogs got to her. She's cold but alive, wet from slobber, and aside from a little blood where she lost a few feathers I think she's not got anything broken. I've got her separated and under a heat lamp...
Thank you. We have a 2 acre yard in the middle of 300+ acres of our farm land, so it's a lot of wide open spaces. It's pretty come summer time when it's all green.