I really hope they both recoverSure feels like it - but it is actually only 8 days for Minnie!
Bernadette I think it will either be a lifelong disability or more optimistically an issue she will grow out of.
I really worry if I know one of my girls is missing out on their food and sleep.Today I put Penny (another broody Buff Orpington) in her own run adjacent to the others because she has been sitting for almost a month and isn't showing any signs of giving it up. When the others get in her space or chase her, she rushes back to her nest like a fluffy yellow beach ball!
I am hoping that with less competition, she will have a chance to feed well and with no nest, she can cool off a little. There is a lot of dry straw on the ground in that run under the covered roof, so who knows maybe she will just make a new nest in there.
she will be more confident soon. Sleep and nourishment usually gets them back into the group again
I'm sorry for your loss and I guess the other chickens will miss her too. You did the right thing for her
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Hmmm. I don’t think that is right. The phenomenon you describe is about non-allelic genes - meaning genes at different places (aka different alleles) which influence each other. Basically a gene for let’s say pink stripes can only express itself if a gene at a different allele says ‘allow pink striped gene to express itself’.From my rough understanding it is genetic traits that share an allele and only manifest when the other trait is present or in the absence of the other trait. It’s quite hard to wrap my head around, and without stable power I’ve sort of resigned myself to not having an exotic snake pet… probably ever, so it’s not something I’ve brushed up on lately. It is mainly something that python breeders use to manipulate colours and patterns or “morphs” in their animals. I don’t know if it at all translates to plants or non reptiles, but would think it might be something we see in chickens with penciling and lacing. Python breeding and different morphs was also quite big business at one point, with some colour patterns going for thousands of dollars before they became common. Bear in mind I also have zero formal education in any of this, just a lot of reading, some personal experience, and most of that is pretty rusty (but I do know there’s zero chance, if that lowland bull can even mount our Herefords and Angus, of him making the offspring bigger or faster growing, or even particularly better foragers of poor pasture)
Ok please pose for the camera like nice chickens… mommy owes taxes! Lots and lots of taxes.
She's absolutely gorgeous. I'd have her in a heartbeatYep I got one of those right now, it's like The Exorcist haha I am waiting for her head to spin around
what an awful blow 
