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Hatching
So my wife and I along with our 6 year old daughter finally started some backyard chickens. I've wanted to do them for awhile and the wife finally agreed and wanted to do it as well. We are quite the animal lovers ourselves and even me having my dream job working for one of the best zoos in the world, the fresh eggs will also be a plus. We ended picking up a Summerhawk kit to have be our base. We also now happily own 4 speckled Sussex hens that are about 2 months now or so and also a buff orpington about the same age. They will all be free range in our chain linked 4' fenced in yard along with the option to go in our 12'x16' completely fenced in garden. Since the coop we have is a little on the small end especially for nesting boxes we plan on bumping into out shed which the coop sits up against, we have a pretty large shed and this shouldn't be much of a problem to do.
When we had got our chickens home and we're giving them a once over before placing them in the coop we noticed 3 were banded with some thicker gauged wire that was to tight around most their legs. Two weren't to bad to remove and you could see the pressure marks left behind but the leg and foot seemed to be okay. The one though was extremely bad, the ends had cut into the leg itself resulting in what appeared to be puss/blood from a possible infection beginning. Surprisingly the foot was still getting blood flow. We were able to remove the wire as least painfully as we could but it did bleed and revealed an open wound that we disinfected and will monitor to see how it heals.
Other than that crappy start with the wire bands, we are very much looking forward to having our chickens and beginning to work with them on training. Along those lines will also come introducing them and our two dogs to each other.
Thanks for reading!
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When we had got our chickens home and we're giving them a once over before placing them in the coop we noticed 3 were banded with some thicker gauged wire that was to tight around most their legs. Two weren't to bad to remove and you could see the pressure marks left behind but the leg and foot seemed to be okay. The one though was extremely bad, the ends had cut into the leg itself resulting in what appeared to be puss/blood from a possible infection beginning. Surprisingly the foot was still getting blood flow. We were able to remove the wire as least painfully as we could but it did bleed and revealed an open wound that we disinfected and will monitor to see how it heals.
Other than that crappy start with the wire bands, we are very much looking forward to having our chickens and beginning to work with them on training. Along those lines will also come introducing them and our two dogs to each other.
Thanks for reading!
