I got my Black Star when it was 2 weeks old from my local tractor supply along with 3 other ones and 4 Red Stars. They all look very much like hens except one that just doesn't sit with me as a hen. There is something about it and I'm seriously questioning if we have a rooster on our hands...
I posted earlier that I found my Buff Orpington without back neck feathers and bleeding. Well, when I went to tend to her this evening to get the wound cleaned I had noticed (as I noticed through out the afternoon) that she really wasn't drinking or eating. She had some straw stuck to her beak...
I went out to my girl's coop this AM and found my 18 week old Buff Orpington hiding in a corner behind a bucket, missing all her back neck feathers and bleeding. She was not at all herself which is normally spunky, flighty and energetic. She instead was scared, cowering and looked so sad. I...