I am not a veterinarian. Real veterinarian advice should always take precedence over this. I do not advise doing at-home surgery on your bird, as the suffering is great and the risks of infection and stress-death is high. Always go to a vet if you can.
In my situation, local emergency vets...
I’m looking for resources/guides on SPECIFIC steps I can do, to train my young chickens to be EXTREMELY docile for extensive handling.
If you have any links to good guides, or book recommendations, I’d appreciate it
I want to be able to:
Manually extend their wings to the full length
Pick...
I’d like to start a breeding project that focuses on making a strain of chickens with large Alulas - the “thumb” of the wing. (Also called a ‘bastard wing’ on some species, when feathered well)
My focus would be on making the whole structure (bones, musculature, and spur) bigger and...
I grew up on a horse farm and helped raise loads of chickens as a kid. After some time in city life and suburbia, I'm going back to my roots & starting a lil homestead out in the country.
As of this introduction, I have the building materials for a coop and zero chickens, but I also just moved...