That's good to hear. Too often the standard advice is 'separate the injured/ill animal' without mentioning some will nosedive in condition if put into a box or room where they cannot see their family. Some cope, some get depressed immediately.
I always prefer to have the convalescent cages among the main population, but since implementing a very strict culling policy against bullying, I can leave injured or ill birds among the main flock without harm coming to them so now I prefer to do that. (Obviously my ideas on biosecurity are a bit different to most... I prefer to expose them to disease rather than try to protect them indefinitely since that only ever ends one way --- sooner or later, there's a fatal outbreak of what may only be a common cold among more pathogen-exposed stock. Since my stock come from all manner of places, often in poor condition, it just makes more sense for me to work on their immune systems being strong rather than try to isolate them from disease).
The choice of oats and fresh food is common with animals who are sick or have infections, because both of those conditions in almost all forms cause some amount of liver burden and fresh foods, oats etc are easy and gentle foods for them whereas cooked foods, particularly the oils, proteins and fats in cooked form that one gets in pellets, can be so hard on an overworked liver that they can be fatal.
Best wishes.
I always prefer to have the convalescent cages among the main population, but since implementing a very strict culling policy against bullying, I can leave injured or ill birds among the main flock without harm coming to them so now I prefer to do that. (Obviously my ideas on biosecurity are a bit different to most... I prefer to expose them to disease rather than try to protect them indefinitely since that only ever ends one way --- sooner or later, there's a fatal outbreak of what may only be a common cold among more pathogen-exposed stock. Since my stock come from all manner of places, often in poor condition, it just makes more sense for me to work on their immune systems being strong rather than try to isolate them from disease).
The choice of oats and fresh food is common with animals who are sick or have infections, because both of those conditions in almost all forms cause some amount of liver burden and fresh foods, oats etc are easy and gentle foods for them whereas cooked foods, particularly the oils, proteins and fats in cooked form that one gets in pellets, can be so hard on an overworked liver that they can be fatal.
Best wishes.