Silence Is Not Golden Here

[Cyprus]

He was free ranging and went up to a run with another roo. They fought through the fence. He lost a spur. He stopped being able to stand on his other leg a few days later. I can't find anything wrong with his leg. He just lies there now. No crowing. He'll only eat if I hand feed him vitamin soaked bread.

Poor guy

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Poor guy

Yeah.
I couldn't get any of the eggs he fertilized to develop, so as much as I love him, he wasn't really of much use to me.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

I'm going to cull the one who hurt him too. My girls are afraid of him. He's fine with me, but too aggressive with other birds.

 

[Cyprus]

Yeah.
I couldn't get any of the eggs he fertilized to develop, so as much as I love him, he wasn't really of much use to me.
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He's such a pretty boy
I'm so sorry

I'm going to cull the one who hurt him too. My girls are afraid of him. He's fine with me, but too aggressive with other birds.

Good decision

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

He's such a pretty boy
I'm so sorry


Good decision

Yeah. His back end is slightly too narrow. Other than that he meets SOP perfectly. So, hopefully my 3 week old chick will be a cockerel.

I do have a buff chantecler cockerel, so I can use him for generating meat birds, but not for selling hatching eggs and chicks.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

 

[Cyprus]

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Do you have a comb pic?

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Kinda blurry


Chanteclers are infamously difficult to sex.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

My broodies had a fee eggs under them. One hatched. After a few days they abandoned the other developing egg. So, I've got it in the incubator. It's internally pipped now. I had both buckeye and chantecler eggs in there, and sometimes they look so similar in colour and shape that I'm not sure what breed is developing.

 

[woodenfarm]

Hey y’all
On one of my almost 2yr old hens I noticed her comb the tip of it is kinda purple ish color. She has a very large comb that hangs over.
I will try to get a picture of her tomorrow.
Just seeing what you all thought it might be