I want to sell this chicken because I have one too many for this coop. S/he is a black split lavender Orpington. It was kind of runty and feathered late but now seems a little bigger and comb much darker/redder that the lavender hatch mate. Previous posts have guessed girl, but I want to double...
I am a newbie. Yesterday I got six chicks. 4 from a feed store and 2 pretty lavender orphs from a local breeder. The orphs were 2 days old. When I got the lav babies home I noticed one had what I thought was pasty butt. I started wiping it with a warm washcloth and it started bleeding! It looked...