becks1984
In the Brooder
- Apr 6, 2015
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Hi everyone,
Hoping for some help, we recently added two 18 week old hens (a Rhode Island Red bantam & an Araucana standard hen) to our three existing bantams. It's all gone quite well I think and the little RIR seems to have settled right in, she's mingling quite well with the others even. The Araucana however still seems very separate to the group and keeps well away from them though she happily mooches around with the RIR girl. I've noticed though that her balance seems a bit off. She can walk and run around just fine but if she's eating from the ground say if I throw some treats down for them she sort of loses her balance and topples over while she's reaching down to get the treats, she uses her wings to prop herself back up. When we brought her back we did clip one wing, just the flight feathers but we've done this with all the girls. Could it be that and she's just not adjusted well to it or something worse?
she's eating and drinking fine too.
Thanks a lot
Hoping for some help, we recently added two 18 week old hens (a Rhode Island Red bantam & an Araucana standard hen) to our three existing bantams. It's all gone quite well I think and the little RIR seems to have settled right in, she's mingling quite well with the others even. The Araucana however still seems very separate to the group and keeps well away from them though she happily mooches around with the RIR girl. I've noticed though that her balance seems a bit off. She can walk and run around just fine but if she's eating from the ground say if I throw some treats down for them she sort of loses her balance and topples over while she's reaching down to get the treats, she uses her wings to prop herself back up. When we brought her back we did clip one wing, just the flight feathers but we've done this with all the girls. Could it be that and she's just not adjusted well to it or something worse?
she's eating and drinking fine too. Thanks a lot
