Show us your special needs chickens...:)

[artsyrobin]

Not to debate whether or not to care for them- but to show us your special needs and how you care for them
this is Emily, a friend rescued her last spring and gave her to me, she lost her leg to frostbite,

she hatched a chick and they are best friends

and this is Red, a feedstore banty cochin, for some reason she never grew- she is now a house chicken and will snuggle under your arm-

 

[lvchicken]

Awwwww! Thank you for giving them such good homes!! I don't have any special needs chickens at my house

 

[The Red Rooster]

I have one thats blind in one eye.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Here is Mary Belle, she's a Cochin I ordered from McMurray hatchery. She's blind in one eye, and small just like your little red girl. She's about half the size of my other Cochins. I bring her inside occasionally (when my DH isn't home

) and feed her special treats. Her being blind has turned her into our friendliest chicken and she'll come when you call her name
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/86165_090611084412.jpg
In this pic, she's in the very front showing off her bad eye. It also shows the size difference.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/86165_2011-07-27_10-36-41_142.jpg
And here she is with Pudge, her best buddy.

 

[artsyrobin]

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awww, what a sweetheart- and her best buddy!! have you ever figured out why she is small?

so red rooster, she manages fine?

i have 2 silkie boys that are nearly blind, and they have a bachelor pen, seem to do fine-

 

[MissChicken]

Emily is really cute. What breed is she?

 

[flyjam1979]

i just bought some chicks from atwoods and i noticed one had only 1 eye; so i told the man i will give him a good home if you cut me a deal ( i would have bought him anyway i was just hoping for a deal) he gave it to me for free, after i got him home i noticed his beak isn't perfectly aligned as it should be, but i am hoping it will make a good pet, it is an americana ( mispelled)

 

[SilkieChickenLover336]

THis is baby. her legs developed wrong. sadly she died when she was 4 mos old exactly

 

[lvchicken]

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I'm sorry about that

 

[willowbranchfarm]

Arn't you glad chickens dont just give up when something happens to them? I mean most people would have been feeling sorry for themselves. I'm glad chickens are my role model.