This is an “Americana” which is apparently not an ameraucana but more like an Easter egger. Opinions on her color and what she would look like in a genetic calculator? She looks a lot like a silver ameraucana but an edge of red around her feathers.
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This little guy is the chick of the hen...
So first of all let me introduce the birds.
Chainsaw, a who knows what 5-8 year old hen. She does have a little crest and looks like a cream legbar but lays white eggs. She also seems a lot lighter than a normal leg bar. Probably a hatchery "specialty." (She only looks mad because I interrupted...
I have a chick that I hatched 2 days ago that is acting very lethargic. I noticed he was walking stiffly about 30 minutes ago, so I took him out to check him over. He got more lethargic so I gave him sugar water. He currently can’t stand and has his eyes closed. Any suggestions?
He’s in an...
I have a five year old Orpington hen with watery eyes and loud darth Vadery breathing. She is also shaped very differently than her sisters. She is from a hatchery so maybe they mixed her with a broiler?!
This is one of her sisters.
This is another hen of mine who has kind of puffy and not...
These are just overall questions I have about chicken keeping. Let me know if I put it in the wrong subforum.
Where I live it can get to the negative 20's or lower in winter. The lighting in winter is 4-6 hours long so we put a LED light in since they were not eating enough to keep themselves...
I'm putting some eggs in the incubator tomorrow and was wondering what they may look like when they hatch! The dad is a mix between a barred Plymouth Rock and most likely a white orpington. His dad was a barred rock and he looks just like him. The possible moms are a brown leghorn, silver laced...
I have an almost 5 year old hen with vent fleet and bumble foot. She constantly has gurgly sounds coming from her belly. I don’t think she’s laid an egg in four months or more. At night she pants (it’s like 60 degrees) and blinks super slowly (maybe she’s just tired) like she’s dying, but in the...
My almost 4 year old hen is unable to put weight on one of her legs. To me it looks like her foot is paralyzed from the hock down. Several weeks ago I noticed her limping, and brought her inside as the limp got worse. After 4 days inside a dog crate and no treatment besides forced rest she...