Glad you found them! Love the little silhouettes.Went to close the birds up tonight a little after dark and the 5 keets my broody has were no where. I was so scared, looking in all of the bushes. I started making kissy sounds like there were treats so maybe they'd come to me. They started peeping and one started making noises I've never heard before. It seriously sounded like it was getting attacked. I couldn't figure out for the life of me where the noise was coming from. Then the noise was coming from above me? I looked up, and
They're 3 weeks old and the roof on the new coop is 11 feet high. I was so relieved they were up there.
I've got a couple of chicken saddles to make before the weather gets cold! I hadn't thought of blu-kot, I didn't know it was good to use as a deterrent, I thought it was just to use on wounds (I'm still learning!).Some of our hens also get this type of feather damage from the rooster. Sometimes other flock members will pick at the damaged area also. I place saddles on to provide protection for their backs and will spray any exposed areas with blu-kot to reduce the amount of attention from the other birds.
Your saddle should help immensely!
I'd love to take him off your hands, but DH would lose what little sanity he has left (I'm slowly turning our house into some sort of ark, he is convinced). Have you looked into local rescue groups? We have a few here that will take cats/kittens in return for donations of food/litter. I had Luccia (our older cat) for about 2 years before bringing home Evinrude, and there was a lot of growling and spitting. It lasted about a week, and then it was all fine. Unholy noises during the week, though! Good luck with finding a solution, and thank you for being a responsible and kind person for helping the kitten!Does anyone have any interest in a kitten? Probably 4 Months old or so? I caught him dosing traffic at a shopping center (got bit pretty good too since he was so scared). I tried to take him to the humane society and they aren't accepting any cats. The local animal rescue is full too. He's very sweet and LOVES human attention but is very jumpy. I tried to bring him in and he just came to life seeing our cat but Monro was NOT happy and did nothing but hiss and growl at him. So the poor thing is stuck in a crate in the garageif anyone wants him, please let me know. Until then, I guess I'll just keep trying to introduce those two and get them to get along lol