Hi yesterday i noticed my bantam hen acting a bit off. Tail down, and a little fluffed up. Her crop is soft and feels a bit empty.
She has gross yellow poop on her feather and when i checked their dropping board i see yellow urates and lots of runny white.
She also hasnt laid an egg in about...
Sooooo my bantam roo has multiple issues. But im mainly concerned about his blueing comb and hurt wing.
Saturday i noticed he just looked sad an off, looked him over didnt see anything wrong. So I let them out to free range he ran right along with his litter mates.
The following day he still...
My hen that is on the mend (i hope, the last few days have been rough). She is eating, alert, head twitch has stopped 90%.
But she has had 2 very unusual (i feel concerning poops). Black, and tar looking. One was this morning (pictured) and one was about an hour ago. All poop in between was...
My beautiful lavender orpington has lice.
I noticed she was not roosting with the girls 2 nights ago. Yesterday when i let them out of the coop she did not join them. I noticed she had a slightly messy bum so i inspected her and saw an obvious louse crawling. I dont see many eggs yet so i...
Great to meet everyone.
Just started my mixed flock in April!
We have 2 lavender orpingtons, a black sex link, a millie fleur d'uccle (hen and roo), a cream legbar, mystic marans, a self blue old english bantam, silkie roo (just started crowing), and my big easter egger roo.
And my neighbors...
Want to confirm these are roosters.
Much larger then my 2 lavender hens and i think i see saddle feathers coming in. My rooster also doesnt mount them and they have kind chest bumped with my roo.
No crowing, they are about 4 maybe 5 months.