Can I Paint Your Birds?

[GlicksChicks]

I love it!! Thanks so much!

You captured her horn and her wide-leg stance perfectly!

Of course! You have a very pretty bird!

SLW are gorgeous, but they are not big on human affection.

 

[Barbours]

He is a handsome boy! You like to rescue injured birds, don't you? That is very kind!

Awe, yes he is. Ya I love animals so much and I don't have room for all the critters but I hate seeing ppl mistreating them .

 

[The Coop Crew]

Last but not least here’s Rose! She is our biggest and loudest girl! She loves digging around for bugs to eat!

 

[GlicksChicks]

Awe, yes he is. Ya I love animals so much and I don't have room for all the critters but I hate seeing ppl mistreating them .

I understand! And people would most definitely mistreat deformed ones. A sad but true fact..

 

[GlicksChicks]

Last but not least here’s Rose! She is our biggest and loudest girl! She loves digging around for bugs to eat!

She is pretty! Is she a Black Copper Maran?

 

[Barbours]

I understand! And people would most definitely mistreat deformed ones. A sad but true fact..

Yep, that's why I try my best to give them the life they deserve.

 

[The Coop Crew]

She is pretty! Is she a Black Copper Maran?

She is!

 

[GlicksChicks]

She is!

What a pretty girl!

 

[talkinboutchickens]

Thank you.

Maleficent always had a waddle prior to her injury, too. In hindsight, I wonder if she was slightly splay-legged and since I was new to chickens I didn't notice. She always walked like a little kid with sand in their swim suit at the beach, lol! She came from Hoover Hatchery. Where did your SLW come from?

I think Maleficent's weird way of walking was a precursor to the injury she sustained. In spite of catching it on camera, I never found a cause. It started with 1 leg and then a couple days later she injured the second one trying to compensate for the 1st one.

Now she waddles even more, but she gets around and just needs an occasional nail trimming. I love all my feather babies and she is one of the extra special ones -- even though she's not MY biggest fan.

If you're curious, here is her mystery injury caught on camera.

Yes, I was brand new to chickens as well when I had my SLW and didn't know what splayed legs were. If I did know what it was then, I probably would have caught it right away. Mine came from a local hatchery. Her name was Vicky. She died last year.
Poor Maleficent She can't catch a break with those little legs of hers.

My SLW's nails were very long, too. We never got a chance to trim them, though. How do you trim chicken nails?
That footage is mysterious I wonder if that's her having chicken zoomies or if that's when she got injured.

 

[talkinboutchickens]

My SLW are... kinda fat ngl. They steal all the food. I promise I am not overfeeding them!

Mine was too.... I think her plump look was also ***partially*** due to her stance. You can't really tell in this pic though.