I'm so sorry for your loss.
Quite a few of my chickens get paler combs in the winter while they are molting and not laying eggs anymore. I hope that's all that is wrong.
I have two Orpingtons. One is a Lavender that has never gone broody, and another is a Buff that goes broody once or twice a year. The Buff is really easy to break if I want, but I did let her hatch out chicks this year, and she was great.
This is April. She is a two-year-old Buff Orpington. She is my absolute sweetest chicken and will run up to anyone for some cuddles. Recently, she went broody and she is a very good mama to her four babies. She never pecked me once while she was broody either, she just growled a few times.
This is Lucky, she is a four-year-old Barred Plymouth Rock. I named her Lucky, because when I got my first flock of chickens. They were barely a year old, when they got sick. Five out of nine ended up dying, but Lucky was one of the remaining four. She got really sick, and I tried to give...
This is my Easter Egger, Cream Puff. She is one year old and she lays beautiful light green eggs with brown flecks that remind me of mint chip ice cream.
This is her as a baby
Here is my Easter Egger, Egghead 2. She was 4 years old and one of two remaining from my original flock, but unfortunately, she passed away a few months ago. She laid big blue eggs but they always broke because her shells were too thin and her favorite thing to do was sunbathing every chance...
This is Honey, my two-year-old Russian Orloff. Whenever I let the chickens free-range before she has laid her egg she will lay it outside somewhere, but she is a really sweet and very beautiful hen and I love her puffy cheeks!
Yeah, that's pretty much the only sound, but when it sees me in the morning before I feed the ducks it makes a louder version of that noise. It's a little bit quieter in the video as well, especially with the wind making all that noise.