I have a leghorn myself and they are pretty hard to understand, aggressive, and a lot of troublesome behaviour, at the end of the day i just put them in a different pen
Feather plucking is normal, but it is can also getting out of hand sometimes, you could lost most of the neck feather. small coop, stressful environment, or lack of nutrition can cause it sometimes they just do it out of nowhere, you can never figuring out the cause, thats why commercial...
Yea, it is a feather plucking, and thats not an inflamed skin, the skin coloration is just like that, usually the area of the head, breast, and the tip of the wings is more redder but thats also depending on the breed, like the featherless chicken, they have a very red skin all over.
Btw, my plant is an ivy plant that i grow beside my house, i just left it alone till it become a thick layer of plant mass, i never clean the falling leaf and root, i just trimm the edge now and then, and give it a lot of water, all those falling leaf and dense shade probably attract the hen.
It is a crazy hen all right, my plant is so dense that the hen probably think it is a perfect spot for laying the eggs, i need to remove the eggs immediately, because i need to give the plant water to survive, if you have any free range chicken, the you should know the eggs laying drama, the hen...
Thats why i had 3 eggs in the beginning, it is an unfortunate circumstances, i have no more eggs right now, i will let him join the adult later, let him join right now will only be a massacre,
Buy another chick?
Yea, unfortunately i am a bit wary today, i used to do that back then only to find...
Rooster have that feather bud all over their skin usually more on the neck and your hens thinks it is yummy, you have nowhere to go, even i havent find any solution to it, i simply put him to another cage, thats all, actually theres one, it is what they do to the commercial chicken, i wouldnt...
Actually it is easier if you spot it at the first few days of hatch, since female tend to grow their feather faster than males, males had a shorter rounder feather, usually messier than females.
Mine actually fine being alone, i have 3 eggs in the incubator, but then one out in the beginning, and one more after the incubator goes wrong and the temperature rises near the hatch time.
Yea he is kinda lonely at first but he get used to.
Yea, seems like a leghorn to me.
I also hatch some from my garden when i was watering the plant(some drunk hen left it there), i dunno which one it is, but theres only leghorns here(it is my neighbour hens tho).
Lower the expense is what all people wanted, i already do most of it, even their poop will go with the compose to the plant and the plant will eventually goes back to them, but become self sufficient arent that easy nowadays, i also hope i can do that, so when covi..ehm, terrible virus or things...
Btw can a chicken catch corona?, there's a case where someone dog got infected from its owner, the original host was a bat, then human, now a dog, theres a chance of chicken get it right?, we didnt really know about that virus yet but, arent the other viruses just like that, h5n1, h1n1, they...
Yep, covid 19 really got you there. I also got something to do in my home, i wreck my old coop since the wood start to rot, i just change it with concrete, dunno if it will work, i havent finished it, actually the online work my school assign was worser than what i thought, so im stuck doing 2...
Dunno, but as long as they grow long red comb and start crow then you'll be sure, why bother tho, yours is definitely male, there's only a low chance that you got female, if someone who separate it got eye problem them thats a different case. i also had some chick like that before all of em...
Its easy, all of them are male, why?
Most chick will get separated by gender after they hatch by an expert, the female will become an egg producer, while the male, em, grinder?..., well in short they have more uncertain fate, some people do keep them as a meat, a cockerel meat arent that great...