Recent content by jillianjo

This was a chick from TSC mixed bantams and I’ve been assuming he’s a golden sebright. But he’s nearly 8 weeks old and I would have expected to see more lacing on his feathers at this point. Is it just because he’s hatchery quality and not show quality? Or does the lacing not develop till later...

I’ve got 4 bantam chicks that are 4 weeks old, 2 golden sebright, 1 OEGB, and 1 Japanese bantam. The Japanese bantam is the only one who never jumps or flies. The other 3 have all been going crazy testing their wings out and they love jumping up to the edge of the brooder box (we cover it when...

I’m 95% sure this is a Japanese bantam. She (straight run, but hoping for a “she” lol) has a single comb, clean legs, and her legs are significantly shorter than the others I got (OEGB and golden sebright). But her feathers are now coming in and I’m curious what color she might end up. Pale...

Got 4 assorted bantam chicks at Tractor Supply, any guesses on breed? No feathered legs. I was kind of assuming they were all Old English Gam bantams but I’m not familiar with the coloring for that breed. I’m guessing 3 and 4 are the same coloring, though one is quite a bit darker than the...

I just picked him up and looked at his feathers. I can’t see any nits on the feathers but I’m not sure what else to look for in terms of evidence of mites. I also inspected his rump a little closer, here’s a close up photo. In addition to the feathers with missing barbs there are also a lot of...

He is 3.5, hatched in April 2020. I’ve thought about mites but haven’t seen any damage to the other chickens. I can do a more thorough check of his feathers next time I pick him up though.

I have a 3.5 year old Ayam Cemani rooster who has slowly been losing bits of his tail feathers. From what I understand of the anatomy of feathers, he’s losing the barbs, but the shaft remains. It doesn’t seem to be a molting issue, because it’s happened slowly over the last few years and the...

Thanks! Do you think it’s ok to leave it uncovered even if we see her picking at it? She is in a clean environment but she has been spending a LOT of time preening (either she’s bored from being in the house or she is a very vain chicken lol), so when we’ve left the wound uncovered it’s...

Thank you! We’ve been trying our best! I think it just scared me, I was feeling pretty confident the last couple days with how much more active she’s gotten so when I saw that nasty yellow color my heart sank. I haven’t noticed it feeling hot in that area but I’ll be sure to check in the...

One of our girls was attacked by a hawk a week ago. She had a couple wounds that seem to be healing ok, but one is looking pretty gross. It was a little over an inch long when it happened and seemed pretty deep. We used butterfly closures to bring the edges closer together. We’ve been using...

I have a flock of 12 chickens. There are 2 Buff Orpingtons who are the youngest of the flock (about a year old) but don’t generally get bullied. They tend to be the new favorites of our rooster so they had quite a lot of broken wing and back feathers. We put some saddles on them and there was a...

We have a flock with 7 hens and 1 rooster. The hens all get along with the rooster fine except for one named Sally. All the other hens let him mount them. Some of them had some scuffles with him in the past, including our alpha hen, but even she eventually let him do his thing without fighting...

Update: Mama keeps doing the same thing over and over. She gets off the nest, walks around for a minute, eats some food, growls and puffs up at anything that comes near her, and then goes back into the nest. Once there, she proceeds to kick and fling straw everywhere until she lays back down on...

Our broody hen was sitting on her first clutch of eggs and hatched 3 of the 5 eggs over the first 2 days. I checked the other 2 eggs and one was cracked and neither one had any movement or sounds coming from them, but I figured I’d give them another day to try to hatch. Meanwhile, mama hen was...

We have a 7 month old Silkie rooster who, for the most part, gets along with all our 6 hens and pullets. He was raised by us in a coop alongside our main coop and has always had interaction with the older hens, and they were all integrated into one coop a few months ago. A couple weeks ago...