My 11 month old Easter Egger has this strange white looking stuff with dark splotches around her comb and ear area. She acts perfectly fine and doesn’t seem bothered by it, her poop is normal and she’s eating and drinking just fine. Should I worry about this and take her to the vet?
Thank you all for your opinions and answers, I have come to the conclusion that she is most definitely a mutt. She does have some pretty nice features for a show chicken though :)
This is a school project chicken I got.
She was completely unexpected as I asked for a Sebright but wasn’t able to get one, so instead my teacher gave me a random bantam that he had no idea what breed it was. So it’s kind of a mystery, the Internet is telling me she’s some sort of Leghorn but I...
YES, it took 4 hours of excruciating waiting and worrying when I opened up my front door to ask my neighbors and she was just walking up the steps, completely soaked from the thunderstorm that was occurring. I cried many tears of joy
I’m just worried that she could get attacked or shot, this neighborhood isn’t the safest. I also don’t know if she’s gone this far before, is it possible for chickens to get easily lost or do they have some sort of instinct to find their way home?
I only have two hens, and today our backyard was being worked on by people and I wasn’t informed in advance. My other hen is broody and, luckily, refused to get off her nest to care, but the hen that ran away is nowhere near my backyard. I would notice she was near because she’s loud and comes...
Today I have just noticed a strange bloody mark around my chicken’s beak as pictured below :
I am quite worried what it is and I wish to make sure I won’t need a visit to the vet or I can help her myself if this is an emergency.
Here’s my information about her so far:
-She is an Easter...
I’m having troubles figuring out what breed my 15 week old pullet is. I got her from a school project when she was a few days out of the egg and she was classified as an Easter Egger. Though I wish to know what her other half is, I was thinking an Australorp or a Jersey Giant but not 100% sure...