I have a White Plymouth Rock Hen that is about 8 mos old. Recently, I replaced my roosters with Rhode Island Red pullets. After that, the Plymouth developed what sounds like a very bad cold. At first, she was wheezing quite a bit, but now her breathing passages seem to have cleared and she...
I have a White Plymouth Rock Hen that is about 8 mos old. Recently, I replaced my roosters with Rhode Island Red pullets. After that, the Plymouth developed what sounds like a very bad cold. At first, she was wheezing quite a bit, but now her breathing passages seem to have cleared and she...
The weather has been warm, and the chicks have survived their first week as a member of my household, so they got to go out into the back yard for an evening constitutional...
And my son couldn't resist getting into their "play pen" with them:
That dog will be a problem - he doesn't...
If you aren't paying attention, you can get burned!
You can't see it in this picture, but it's blistering in the center.
Just one more addition to my collection of burn scars (apparently, my arms don't feel the heat until I've gone and touched the hot surface. )
One of my chicks keeps kicking her leg back, extending as far back as it will go, then pulling it back in and going about her business. One time she even did it while sitting, and lay there for about 3 seconds, with her leg stretched out behind her.
Is this a sign of distress? Or is she just...
Yippee! I finally got my first chicks - six adorable White Plymouth Rocks. Hopefully, only one of them is a roo!
Now I need to get the walls on my coop...
I always did work better under a deadline! :)
I have been lurking on BYC for...years...and am finally halfway through the building of a coop, and that much closer to my own, tiny, backyard flock.
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