Hello,
I am experiencing some perplexing emotions right now. First, when I cleaned the coop yesterday I saw blood on the straw. So, I googled and read about what it could be, and parasites came up. But I could not figure out who, and did not see blood anymore, not even this am. What I did see was what I thought was a rooster sitting in a nest, so I thought ok, he's the sick one. Then! My ISA sits next to him and I'm thinking No Way! Sure nough, there's 2 eggs in that nest.
My confusion is this, why did the 3 leghorns I bought together look different, 2 looked like hens while the 3rd showed signs of being a rooster; its waddles and comb grew faster, it walks taller, holds its tail as high as it can go and always stayed in the background. The only way I knew it was a hen was the egg it laid today.
I wish I had taken pics last week, but these are the pics I got from few months old till today.
I am experiencing some perplexing emotions right now. First, when I cleaned the coop yesterday I saw blood on the straw. So, I googled and read about what it could be, and parasites came up. But I could not figure out who, and did not see blood anymore, not even this am. What I did see was what I thought was a rooster sitting in a nest, so I thought ok, he's the sick one. Then! My ISA sits next to him and I'm thinking No Way! Sure nough, there's 2 eggs in that nest.
My confusion is this, why did the 3 leghorns I bought together look different, 2 looked like hens while the 3rd showed signs of being a rooster; its waddles and comb grew faster, it walks taller, holds its tail as high as it can go and always stayed in the background. The only way I knew it was a hen was the egg it laid today.
I wish I had taken pics last week, but these are the pics I got from few months old till today.
