Some of my rescued rabbits and chicken weren’t even bought they were dumped at parks stores and in the middle of nowhere if I had known the conditions of these dudes I probably wouldn’t have gotten them since I’m dealing with sick hens
Thank you they are full grown but definitely need the protein I have the feed from my turkey chicks so they’ll be on that for about a week then switched
Sadly not rescued this was meant to be my new breeding pen bought from a local breeder I’ve rescued rabbits and chickens in the past from breeder in the area at this point I think it’s a local thing to get rid of animals like this
4 and 8 cannot walk at all they are dragging themselves and missing toes 1 is definitely fully blind so he’ll be an indoor pet quail 5 is semi walking but bleeding 6 also seems to have bumble foot and is bleeding a bit
Not sure how old they are #1 is a male fully blind #8 is missing an entire toe same with #4 going to start them on game bird 30% protein feed. #8 and #4 cannot walk at all the others are pretty active
That’s what I was thinking from the healthy looking ones I placed them with my 10 other females so it’s 16 females to 3 males but I think I may have to cull the ones with the leg deformities since they’re so bad
I got 17 quails and out of all 8 of them are in horrible conditions
I didn’t notice till I got home due to them being in a box
Some are blind some are scalped feathers torn overgrown beams crooked beaks feet injuries
I’ve applied hen healer and vetericyn to those with open injuries and areas...
I’ve never butchered such a big bird I wouldn’t know where to start or what to do with him. The biggest I’ve done was an adult male Muscovy duck. If I can’t figure a solution on him loosing weight it may be my only option
I should’ve known something was off. I literally got them a few hours ago the seller said she fed them corn only. I’ll definitely buy that feed. Is there anything I can do to help both loose weight especially my Tom he’s way too big.
I should’ve done more research before buying but I got 2 broad breasted whites to have as “pets”. Now I found out they are meat birds and will more than likely not live long. They are 8 months old the Tom is around 75-80 pounds the hen is around 30-45 pounds. My question and worry is that I may...