He is the most adorable thing. Almost 3 months old, black, with red comb and big solid black eyes. He is tiny only about 6 inches tall from the top of his head. His "sister" is already more than twice his size. I cant find anything that looks like him. A lot are close, but not exactly, so I...
Hi All,
I noticed one of my barred rocks had an unusually large crop last week. I went to pick her up and she is skin and bone. So I massaged the crop to see if I could feel anything, and felt nothing but liquid. I separated her from the flock, massaged her crop etc.. and when I checked on...
Hi All,
I posted this also in the turkey section but since they get a lot of the same issues, I wanted to cross post here. Here is a picture of Mabels neck. Day before yesterday in the morning her neck looked like this, today it looks exactly the same. I researched fowl pox, but it just...
These black scabs showed up on my girl the other day, I have no idea what this is, and cannot find anything on line that looks similar.
So far her behavior is fine, she doesn't mind me touching them at all etc.... she is eating and drinking fine.
Any information you have would be greatly...
This is Sprout. I rescued a flock of 17 chickens about a year ago (and a turkey). So far they have all been great. I lost one to a severe prolapse and as of yet has been the only casualty.
Last week I walked into the coop and she was in a crumpled heap. I picked her up, she stood up and...