I have 1 of 7 gold-laced Wyandotte chicks, now 7 weeks old, and one of them is 1/3 the size of the others, and unlike them, has virtually no body feathers although it has lost most of its fluff. Could this be a genetic defect?
My goose, over the last month, has become trusting enough to gently put her beak on my shoulder. Every morning, we sit by the pond and share an apple from the tree and in the last week, she has come close enough to brush past me and has allowed me to stroke her body. This morning, she started...