It started with sudden onset of lameness 4 weeks ago, he seemed to be in a lot of pain then because he was screaming when I tried to touch his legs & I first thought he was injured. He also had watery diarrhea, later developed high fever & I discovered he was full of red mites!
I Isolated him...
This is Noodle my Purebred Cream Legbar Cockerel.
He is lovely, calm, allows me to pick him up as I please and looks after his ladies well. Although he can be a bit daft and face a corner of a wall for a while, or call over the hens to look at some chicken poop :gig
I was just wondering how...
I’m looking for some advice on how to “tame” a cockerel I just got from a friend. He doesn’t appear to have been handled very often and I know they live a free-range lifestyle. My friend has 6 other cockerels (all raised together) she’s trying to rehome and I was helping her identify the...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
I am new to chicken. I did have a chicken when I was maybe 6 but do not really remember how I kept it alive.
As soon as the quarantine on chicks was lifted in LA County I got myself my flock.
(2) How many chickens do you have right...
Hello fellow chicken folk!
Some nice lady in a nearby town has offered me her 8 month old Cream Legbar rooster for free. I have been looking for a pure CL so I am thrilled! I am just hoping for some feedback from anyone who knows a thing or two about CL. Here is a picture of him she has sent...