Update
Just found apple, my isa brown mix, panting in the nesting boxes. She had the same fat belly, wasn’t as severe though. I’m wondering if maybe they’re egg bound. It seems kinda strange that they all have it at the same time. Do worms cause this? Again maybe they’re fat from the sunflower...
Barnevelders have a beautiful double laced pattern and come in some realy pretty colours. Also the roosters don’t have that patterning, only the ladies.
I’d say cockerel. I agree definitely looks like a mix, this happend to me too.
We raise chicks in agriculture class at my high school. They get isa browns, white leghorns and “australorps”. We got an “australorp” rooster from them, his name is sooty and this is him now.
Turns out he’s a Rhode...
I have a beautiful hen, her mum’s a light Sussex and her dad’s an australorp, Rhode Island Red cross. Her names raven.
Sadly she’s sick now, so if any one has any experience or ideas they would be greatly appreciated...
I live on the southeast coast of Australia, it’s summer here. It’s 21 degrees Celsius which is about 70 degrees Fahrenheit. It was 23 degrees C (73 degrees F) yesterday which isn’t that bad but it didn’t help that I was cleaning the chock coop all day in the blistering sun (the sun is a big...