GrannyAching
In the Brooder
Hello all,
I'm very new to this, just watching my brother's flock (9 ladies, various breeds, all about 2 years old) for the summer while he rebuilds his coop. We moved them to my yard and coop Friday evening, and by Saturday afternoon most of them seemed pretty well settled in.
HOWEVER - one of them has seemed more lethargic than the others, she hasn't been snapping at grasshoppers, she keeps lying/sitting down, I noticed she spent the night huddled on the ground in the coop instead of hopping up on the roost bars, then yesterday and today I saw her doing a weird behavioral tic, she stands there with her wings down and jerks her head to the side? I've attached a video I caught of her doing it today. Tonight when I went to close the coop she had just laid down at the bottom of the ramp up to the coop, didn't even climb up in with the rest of them!
My brother said he didn't notice this behavior before I picked them up, but he's kind of on autopilot with the flock while I've been staring at them constantly (and tbh nervously, I'd hate for one to die on me while I'm babysitting) since they arrived. Any ideas? I'm a bit freaked out here.
I'm very new to this, just watching my brother's flock (9 ladies, various breeds, all about 2 years old) for the summer while he rebuilds his coop. We moved them to my yard and coop Friday evening, and by Saturday afternoon most of them seemed pretty well settled in.
HOWEVER - one of them has seemed more lethargic than the others, she hasn't been snapping at grasshoppers, she keeps lying/sitting down, I noticed she spent the night huddled on the ground in the coop instead of hopping up on the roost bars, then yesterday and today I saw her doing a weird behavioral tic, she stands there with her wings down and jerks her head to the side? I've attached a video I caught of her doing it today. Tonight when I went to close the coop she had just laid down at the bottom of the ramp up to the coop, didn't even climb up in with the rest of them!
My brother said he didn't notice this behavior before I picked them up, but he's kind of on autopilot with the flock while I've been staring at them constantly (and tbh nervously, I'd hate for one to die on me while I'm babysitting) since they arrived. Any ideas? I'm a bit freaked out here.