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Thanks Marina. It sounds similar to your boy. I wondered if it was toenail related. He seems happy enough and is still chasing the girls so I'll leave him be as well.

My favourite rooster has been shaking his foot a lot lately and I had a closer look yesterday to find his back toe is swollen up to just be a big lump instead of a toe. Any ideas anyone? I'm wondering if scaly leg mites might have got into the back toe and got inflamed somehow. Apart from shaking hi...

That's a lot of quail manure! Neighbourly is a good idea - I'm sure someone would take it off your hands for some sort of fertiliser.

Sounds pretty normal! I have a 5 year old boy who's a bit slow now and a 6 month old boy. The younger one has just discovered he's got hormones and is chasing the girls all the time! They are not happy at all - screeching every time he grabs them by the neck and tries to do his thing. The older boy ...

Does your chicken have the black scab in the middle of the foot or lumps between the toes? If it's not limping I wouldn't do anything about it. I have done the cutting out of the black scab a couple of times and it's very messy! A lot of blood! The chicken doesn't seem to feel it much however. I hav...

I have an Orpington hen that shows strange behaviour sometimes. She puts her head down and walks backwards! I think it is because she is low down in the pecking order and it is submissive behaviour. Otherwise she seems normal and has a new set of feathers so is looking good. . Any ideas from anyone ...

No I have sold all the 3 roos that had the lacing on their chests. But there is a young boy from the same batch of eggs that is developing more colours so I'll see how he turns out!

My little chick has now reached 4.5 months (same batch of eggs as my gold laced pullet under my other post) but it is a male! He is still small - much smaller than the others of the same age. The best way of feeding him I have found is to put him into the bin of feed and bunch up the feed into a pil...

I have had 3 Orpington roosters which had gold lacing on their chests in the last couple of years, bred from a buff hen and my blue roo I was told. I was always hoping for a pullet like that. In the next season of chicks just gone I have been lucky enough to get this I think. She is 4.5 months old a...

My place is a sea of feathers - my 2 turkeys are dropping all their feathers after they decided to stop being broody (actually the field where they were both sitting got mowed!) They are now like 2 pincushions and don't like being touched!

Also watch them around your chook house - they steal eggs!

Just an update on this chick. She is very active, running around as much as the others. But she takes 4 or 5 attempts to pick up a piece of food poor thing! She is a tryer even though she gets pecked by all the others being the littlest of the flock. Has anyone else had a chick with a beak deformity...

Yes its tongue flicks in and out. She is a lot smaller than the other 2 of the same age so I know she is not getting as much food. I haven't handled these chicks as they have been with a hen until recently when she started fretting to get out and started laying again. I have been feeding them chick ...

I have a 6 or 7 week old chick hatched under a hen (actually under 2 sharing) which seems to have a beak deformity. Whether one of the hens was a bit clumsy or it was born like that I don't know. Now I have taken some close up photos it looks like it's similar to a human cleft lip type of thing? It ...

I agree, wait till at least a week, especially with speckled or darker eggs. Too hard to see anything earlier than that. And the yolk moving around can confuse you!