My maran Ling's crop started out big and squishy. We started puking her (stinky!) and feeding her yogurt and keeping her inside.
Then, it turned small and hard like a golf ball, so we figured it must have become impacted, and we started giving her oil and massaging it. This lasted about two...
The father to all of these is a mix of ameraucana and wyandotte (Colin, if anyone remembers him :) He's a lil brat, but he's doing quite well). There are three pure-bred mothers of different breeds.
The two black ones, Gusta and Big Black, have a black copper maran mother. Big Black is...
He's driving the hens insane and we can't figure out what he is doing. He keeps going into a corner on my porch on some newspapers and making himself as small as possible and and scratching a bit and making a constant "RRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH, RRRRRAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH" sound. The...
My favorite hen and namesake, Birdo, started yawning frequently a couple weeks ago. Now it has progressed to constant mouth-breathing and wheezing, especially when she's stressed or after flapping her wings a lot. Her energy level is fine and she's eating and drinking fine. What is going on...
Just got this lil guy from a farmer with many different breeds running around. He said his guess was "Wyandotte/Ameraucana/Yokohama". I think I see leghorn in him though - white ears, giant tail, and giant comb (which is so heavy is flops over). It is a "pea comb" in shape, however, having...
He's adorable, but I think he's a little bit "special"... He was free, a guy with too many roos wanted to find him a new home because he was "too pretty for the pot". He's a mix of blue laced red wyandotte and yokohama. Anyway, his comb hangs right over his left eye just like Flock of Seagulls...
Our wyandotte, Birdo, tried pecking at a fox through the coop wire and ended up breaking her beak this morning. I didn't see it happen, so I'm not sure how she did it. It's broken right at the tip, and I think might be cracked all the way up. I rinsed it with saline. The bleeding has...