He is a young black copper marans. All the girls are healthy. His chest is very irritated and swollen.
Some days it looks better, then there are days like this it just looks horrible.
Amanda
Buff Orpington has a swolen foot, not getting any better. She is 1 year old. It is the size of a perfectly round large marble. She limped around at first, but now she seems to go on as if it were normal. It has been this way for 3 weeks. I tried several time to clean it and see if I could...
I have a small flock of Buff Orpingtons. There were 2 roosters and 8 hens. Someone bought one of my roosters, and apparently he was the dominant one. Now my remaining roo is just one of the gals. He is a year old. He has never crowed. I've put him in isolation for 2 weeks and I put him...
I hatched some buff orpingtons. It looks like 2 of them are roosters, but only one is taking on the role of rooster. He crows and services the ladies. They are 9 or 10 months old. The other looks exactly like a rooster, but does not exhibit any rooster behavior. Long streamers around the...
I have a few Black Jersey Giants, and a few Austrolorps.
I buy from feed stores and friends. I don't keep up with exactly who came from where. No rooster.
Typically my BJGs have had red faces. Now I have this beautiful bird with black legs and a beautiful black face (waddles, etc) - eyes are...
I'm wondering if chickens are colorblind. What brings this to mind is an interesting thing that is occurring in my flock. I used milk crates as laying baskets, half full of pinestraw. I have 12 of these crates mounted on the back wall of my coop. All but one of the crates are black. The one...