When visiting my Farmer Friend the other day I got to see several of the chickens that we gave to him when they were just chicks. One of them was the Barred Rock Rooster (see previous post) - what a handsome dude! I adopted him thinking that the person who advertised him had incorrectly identified him - I thought that it was a little pullet (girl), oops.
Anyway, back when he was a chick his toes on both feet were very crooked. This is usually caused when the humidity during incubation is too low. This can sometimes be corrected by splinting the toes if identified early on. That was not the case with this guy, as you can see from the picture above. Although grossly crooked on both feet, he's doing just fine. He's adjusted well and does everything a chicken with normal toes would do and rules his pen with a iron beak. Don't turn your back on him either or he just might give you a what for!
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