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I've got a few ordinary 'red' hens, plus an Andalucian cockerel. So far, over the last couple of years, hatchlings have turned out all black, all white, white with a few brown feathers towards the tail (a current young cockerel) and a rich brown/black! This makes sexing a nightmare as they tend...

Same thing happened to me today but my hen was looking sick last night...very lethargic, standing with head on one side. Didn;t get off roost this morning so that's why I picked her up. A lot of liquid then came out, crop felt very 'squishy'...I squuezed a bit more and brownish liquid came out...

So if it's not 'sour crop' -- which, having researched it a bit more I don't think mine was -- does anyone have any other ideas??? All the symptoms described in the earlier posts definitely applied to mine: EXCEPT the hard or swollen crop....... I guess I'm just so worried it might have been...

Yes, the top of the crop (at the bottom of her neck) on mine was soft and mushy too. There was no discharge of any kind from anywhere, and she didn't really have diarrhoea, I only saw one poop and it was green andwhite and watery. She was quite thin tho. I didn't notice anything untoward about...

Me too.. (am in southern Spain)...two days ago I saw one of my (free range) hens (around 2 years old) just sitting still, hunched up, ruffled feathers, comb tiny, slightly purplish, obviously seriously unwell. I hadn't previously noticed anything wrong with any of them, and I do spend quite a...

First, thank you for taking the trouble to reply...appreciated! I'm confused cos as I said, I can't see any sign whatsoever of spur development on the brown and white, and brown 'adolescents'....the only things I notice are the lack of comb development and smaller size of the black one....but...

ooooohhh.thanks for reply...but even more confused!!!

Right.....got some more pics now! First off...Rupert, in all his (not inconsiderable) glory. Now the 3 older 'chicks' I can't tell the sex of!!! The black one is slightly smaller, and appears to have no comb development yet...but I can't see any sign of spurs growing on the other two....the...

Aha...OK....thanks.....here's a slightly closer pic (camera packed up immediately afterwards!!) ...plus a better one of one of the wives...terrorising whatr used to be feral cats!!!

Hi everyone....delighted to be here! Please can someone tell me what breed they think my rooster is? And ditto his 'wives'?? I'm in Spain and got them (separately) here....the hens as POL pullets....seem to be pretty standard for egg-laying here...you either get these or black pullets, which are...