Is this normal?
See the very red bits on this 6 week old BR's head? I have four chicks, and this one has this redness around her head, the others don't. But sometimes it isn't red like that, just normal pink. Seems to get red when she's excited, foodtime especially.
What do you think?
Thanks!
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Group One:
Big Birds: in big pen, 4 months old, look like this (their rep. today is Honeysuckle)
Here they are as a gang:
Group Two:
5 week olds with broody hen, two...
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