So maybe you chicken lovers can answer this qustion:
I found a bird on the sidewalk this morning, in front of a building. He/she was just laying there flopping around, I assume he/she ran into the window. So I picked it up and stuck it in a bush, thinking it just needed to recover and fly away. I came back about 30 minutes later and it was still there, flopping around.
I took it home like any good mother, and stuck it in a tupperware bowl full of tissue. As of tonight, it still can't fly and it is holding it's head at a very strange angle. At first I thought maybe it broke it's neck, but then it would be dead by now, right? It is moving both it's wings so I think they are alright.
What to do?
Originally posted by mlpriorOne of three things. Take it to the nearest veterinary surgery; tend it for a while, it may still be in shock; or put in out of its misery.
So maybe you chicken lovers can answer this qustion:
I found a bird on the sidewalk this morning, in front of a building. He/she was just laying there flopping around, I assume he/she ran into the window. So I picked it up and stuck it in a bush, thinking it just needed to recover and fly away. I came back about 30 minutes later and it was still there, ...[text shortened]... d by now, right? It is moving both it's wings so I think they are alright.
What to do?
Back to chickens. My daughter bought three ex-battery hens off the web for 50p each. Asked me if I would take her to pick them up . . . 80 bl**dy miles there and back. Not only that she wrote them a cheque for £50. They recovered their feathers within a couple of months and (two years on) are laying ok. Watch out for rats, foxes and red mites. Disinfect their hut at least once a year. Son-in-law is some sort of engineer who has rigged a door to their hut that is operated with a light sensitive switch so that they don't have to get up to let them out.
Originally posted by mlpriorThe bird died this morning. I guess it had brain damage or something.
So maybe you chicken lovers can answer this qustion:
I found a bird on the sidewalk this morning, in front of a building. He/she was just laying there flopping around, I assume he/she ran into the window. So I picked it up and stuck it in a bush, thinking it just needed to recover and fly away. I came back about 30 minutes later and it was still there, ...[text shortened]... d by now, right? It is moving both it's wings so I think they are alright.
What to do?
It survived for 3 days though.
:'(
Originally posted by smw6869If you want a lot of double yokes feed them quality grain fresh chlorinated water and crushed oyster shells for calcium. You will get large hard shelled eggs and usually double yoked eggs. Other wise just make um peck for it.
A chicken will eagerly eat it's own poop/pee pee combo and rush to it's nesting box to throw up on the egg that it just squeezed out of it's bloody heiny. I especially like the double yokes. They have a very, how you say, earthy taste.
GRANNY.
For any of you that are interested, I've been working on the coop with my kids and we have improved it. This coop is pretty old and I think the owner had used scrap wood. I don't mind - I didn't want to spend a lot on a fancy coop and did NOT want to buy wood so I used my own scrap wood and leftovers to patch it up. It was very loose. I have reinforced and tightened the sides and top (I will use the foam insulation come Fall to keep out the cold) and neatened up the top with roofing paper. I had to patch a big hole in the bottom and lower the top of the door handle. I couldn't attach the roof permanently without doing that. I inserted some wood where there were just too many loose boards and I made a small nest on the side for the hens to lay.
We painted it barn red today. Next comes a door (painted white) for the front on one side only, the other side will be fixed. We made a chicken ramp too.
The only thing left to do after all that is to build a run with chicken fencing and some posts. We have hawks here that fly over the mice in the field at my house, so I think it's best to enclose it.
I'm proud of my kids for the help they have given me and they are very excited to see the coop coming along.
Any of my facebook friends can see the album there.
Anybody else interested:
http://photobucket.com/Sunburnt_photos
Originally posted by SunburntVery nice indeed. It's got that rustic, chickeny look.
For any of you that are interested, I've been working on the coop with my kids and we have improved it. This coop is pretty old and I think the owner had used scrap wood. I don't mind - I didn't want to spend a lot on a fancy coop and did NOT want to buy wood so I used my own scrap wood and leftovers to patch it up. It was very loose. I have reinforced an ...[text shortened]... see the album there.
Anybody else interested:
http://photobucket.com/Sunburnt_photos
GRANNY.