Its going to sound odd, have you tried giving him a spoon or two of Gatorade? It gets some sugar in them to help perk them up a little bit.
Shad, i might have missed it, hoes Matilda doing?
Okay, good. I was a little nervous that something wasnt clicking since i dont think ive ever heard it mentioned. If one goes broody, will you allow chicks?
I'm not sure about the color so much, but I will say Wes, my pheonix male also has white there. I've noticed that pretty much most males have tails that have a downy plume, but usually I see them most on my long, low set pheonix tails and on my high set male tails
I'm going to play devils advocate and hope y'all forgive me because of my pictures.
At least they're still using the hens. Even if it's for pet food. Even at that young, those birds arent going to be as tender as most people prefer, and they're tiny compared to what most people buy in the...
We leave most of our birds on the compost pile if they pass. Some are buried (or left somewhere more proper if its too frozen to dig), but most aren't.
In my experience, if the males are raised by a hen in his flock, he will think that they're his no matter what they look like and it will be easier. Also easier to introduce males as uonh as pissible begore hormones start or during the winter when theyre not interested in hens right now. I...
I don't doubt your midwife abilities. But I know it's a big deal in humans and most animals when they can't poop. The waste builds up and can cause problems, that's more what I was worried about
I've only had one female get egg bound and she fixed it herself eventually (she laid it while we were approaching her to catch her). She's always laid bad eggs though, and this one should have been a triple yolker
I think males like the feeling of their wattles being rubbed gently. I have a few Cochin males that will stand still and let me do. They're near the bottom of the totem though, so they might just know to put up with it
I was going to say that maybe when a bird is feeling ill, they seem to not veiw them as a threat so much? Like they're fine with the ill birds because they won't be doing anything harmful. I've seen a few posts mentioning ISAs have temperament issues