I bought 6 brabanter chicks, because they’re beautiful! However the 6 chicks I have are flighty and aggressive. I have never had chicks this young show aggression. The chicks are about 2 1/2 weeks old and when you stick your hand in the brooder they will kick (?) at your hands, they will...
The chick in the back with black edging on the tail is a roo BUT the chick in the front its tail curls? The roo chick in the back hatched a week earlier than the one in the front but they are both from the same parents. The other hens in the clutch their tails do not curl like the odd ball in...
I have a partridge old english game hen who hatched out six babies by a RIRr she has been such a good mom and has taught her babies everything from scratching for bugs to looking up in the sky if they hear predator birds. In the past I have had incubator babies but none have ever gone broody...
MY second post unfortunately is about another sick chicken. I traded roosters with a man and when I first got him I thought he was kinda weird. He didn't move to much and as the week has progressed so have his symptoms. He now is off balance, looks like he has avian pox bc he has white and black...
When I got him it was a small lump on his eye. I thought he was just pecked and didn't worry about it to much. Now it is getting progressively bigger and I am worried it could be Avian Pox. He was only with my flock for one day and they don't have any lumps forming anywhere. I have given him...