Cochins are by far the most docile and gentle chickens I have owned, including silkies. They follow me around and stand still as I pat their backs or scratch their breast, even zoning out as if they're enjoying it. The only problem is their fluffy feathers which, though pleasing to look at and...
I always hand raise my chicks and make sure I'm around all the time so they imprint on me so that might be the reason my sumatras were so tame, but they were nothing like the temperaments described. My rooster would even sleep on my lap! Though they did have their wild side (my hen once flew 30...
I'm just a girl who loves my chickens to much. I've had them as long as I can remember, but never joined any type of forum. I thinks it's about time I look for other people who love chickens as much as I do.
My cochin pullet had the same problem about a month ago. Since she didn't want to eat much I mixed a vitamin and electrolyte powder supplement into warm water with olive oil and fed her hard boiled eggs and it only took her a few days to get better.
I don't know about chickens, but my mom incubates peachicks and they are incredibly sensitive to heat change and last year a lot of them died because they got too hot and dried out. Maybe you could compensate by giving them more moisture so they don't dry out...?
I have a standard Cochin pullet which, until recently, was moving around normally. I've begun to notice when she runs it's a clumsy gallop. I've checked her legs and neither seems to be swollen and she didn't seemed to be bothered with pain when I touched them. But about a month ago she had sour...