hello all... i have had my little flock for 3 years now ... it has grown from 3 to 50 ... (i think i am officially running a "chicken rescue")
sheesh.. in South Dakota i am seriously an odd "duck"? Anyhooo.... i have noticed something odd that perhaps someone could help me understand, let me qualify that with NO i am not totally crazy... this is happening. I "rescued some chickens from someone who could not keep them anymore , they came to me in pretty bad shape the lady had been feeding them only bread... and whatever else they could scrounge... they looked HORRIBLE ... and being a novice chicken wrangler i just let the 11 girls in with my flock and ta da ... everyone got lice. fun. yuukky ok under control now i think and everyone (mostly ) has regrown feathers and seems more normal. but now.. oddly i noticed that my totally grey Araucana hen has gotten new red feathers... and one of my newest baby roo's is all black with red feathers ... but his hen and the daddy roo were white and red ... no one was black... i am confounded by these things ... anyone know whats happening here??? odd ... Gregor Mendel .... needed here ...
sheesh.. in South Dakota i am seriously an odd "duck"? Anyhooo.... i have noticed something odd that perhaps someone could help me understand, let me qualify that with NO i am not totally crazy... this is happening. I "rescued some chickens from someone who could not keep them anymore , they came to me in pretty bad shape the lady had been feeding them only bread... and whatever else they could scrounge... they looked HORRIBLE ... and being a novice chicken wrangler i just let the 11 girls in with my flock and ta da ... everyone got lice. fun. yuukky ok under control now i think and everyone (mostly ) has regrown feathers and seems more normal. but now.. oddly i noticed that my totally grey Araucana hen has gotten new red feathers... and one of my newest baby roo's is all black with red feathers ... but his hen and the daddy roo were white and red ... no one was black... i am confounded by these things ... anyone know whats happening here??? odd ... Gregor Mendel .... needed here ...