Hoping someone can give me some insight into what did this to my chicken run. I was gone for two nights and came home to one of my eight hens wandering the yard. Expecting the worst, I ran to the coop. The other seven hens were in coop. Everyone was fine. There was a nesting box full of eggs and...
This picture is from May 26, when little Alfredo was 4.5 weeks old. As of yesterday, June 9, her beak is even worse. I haven't seen her eat chick feed or drink, but she behaves like all the other chicks. I threw some watermelon rind in the run a few days ago. She couldn't peck at it, but she...
My Orloffs are 6.5 weeks old. I'm new to this breed and fairly new to chicken raising in general. How would you even begin to determine this chick's sex?