The second one "could" be a pullet (I'd still be surprised). He/she has far more comb development than ANY of my adult girls, but the crest is pretty rounded. Where did you get them?
He was an only chicken when she got him. She has other birds, but he's in quarantine. There's some confusion as to how long it has been since he's been with other birds. The fellow told my sister he'd had the roo for two or three weeks, that they got some hens when they got him, but that they...
Yeah, this was my thinking too. "He's likely just scared stiff"...but then he started crowing. I've never seen a scared/stressed bird announce its presence by crowing. This is all just so baffling to me. Nothing really adds up to any of the diseases that I know or have had experience.
Bugs...
Thank you for your reply. This was my initial thought, but he seems to have good strength in his legs. He kicks and can free them when restrained. He can use his feet to scratch his face. I really hope this is all that it is. She's completely paranoid about exposing her existing flock to...
My sister, who is very new to chickens, went and picked up a Polish rooster that she had found in the classifieds. She had seen pictures of the bird previously, but when she went to get him it was dark and he was sleeping. They transferred him from cage to crate and she did not really look him...
It's just as it sounds, NorthFLChick, it's hatching eggs via body heat inside your brasierre (alongside your unmentionables). I think you can get in trouble here for asking for THOSE kind of photos. LOL
I'm not sure if you are talking about the same "clicking sound" that I have experienced, but whenever I have very newly hatched chicks their lung sounds are a bit "clicky". I asked my vet , who is also my sister, and she said this was likely just from their lungs being filled with air for the...