Yesterday morning I noticed one of my chickens had started acting odd, she is unwilling to move and seems to be in pain. She does eat and drinks but isn’t too interested in food. I isolated her to have a closer look at her behaviour and droppings and this is what they look like. What could this be?
I am trying to rescue a single hen from a family friend who bought two rabbits and was also given the hen, the rabbits have done some damage to the feathers on the poor thing as they have been eating (or pulling) them. I haven’t seen the hen yet, I am just hoping they’d give her to me.
I also...
The comb of my 2 year old rooster has started to turn blue and I am worried. I first noticed it last summer, however it passed but now it’s happening again. Usually it’s the tips of the comb but sometimes the whole back end.
I haven’t noticed anything too unusual, he is still the same kind and...
I got two araucana chicks and an older faverolle chick (which is hopefully a pullet). Since I have read that araucana pullets and cockerels are difficult to tell apart.
They are about five weeks old now and i have started to see many differences between them, however i have no idea how to sex...
My about two year old hy-line brown rooster has started throwing crowing fits in the middle of the night, last night he crowed non-stop from about 2am till 3am, what could be causing this? These incidents are irregular, theh happen maybe once in two weeks. A fox has been visiting our neighbour’s...
I have a big hy line brown rooster, and next week I am planning on introducing my about 9 or 10 week old pullets to the flock. My pullets are all standard sized, except for my two small pekins. So my worry is that the rooster could hurt them. The rooster has been really gentle with the older...