Today's coop surprise was the first green egg! I'm not completely sure, but I think the credit goes to Betty the Easter Egger.
First Egg!
I found this pretty little brown egg in a nest box today. Pretty sure it belongs to Arlene Barred Rock - she's been showing a lot of interest in the nest boxes lately. Yay, Arlene!
Emile!
Here’s a recent shot of Emile, the dandy little birchen Cochin roo!
Emile has become my bud since I nursed him back to health from his bout with
sour crop. All of the handling has made him less shy & he's quite happy to
eat grain out of my hand now. He crows at sunrise, just like roosters should
& sometimes at other random times of the day when he gets confused.
I was clueless as far as what was wrong with him when he first
got sick. I just noticed that one morning, he didn't crow, or do much of
anything and just sort of stood around with a droopy head. I wondered at first
about coccidiosis, which is something all chickens get at some point, or some
other infectious agent, which would have probably meant that the whole flock would
get sick. I finally hit on the idea that he might have sour crop, and sure
enough, when I tipped him over, nasty stuff ran out of his beak just like I was
pouring cream out of a pitcher. With the
help of a neighbor, who is a vet, I’ve managed to get this little guy back to
good health!
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