She is still alive and we have her in the house. She actually seems a bit better,, she is taking water from the syringe, and I am off to get the poly and pedi! Will keep on this track, hopefully she will make it through. I have checked her everywhere and she looks fine.
She is a little over a year old, fine up until a couple of days ago,, she started acting lethargic, inactive and now she is not moving at all,, she is not eating or drinking. I have been giving her liquids with a syringe. Her eyes are always closed and her head in laying on her back. She has...
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Well we were looking at little ones again,, like 2-3 weeks old, so considerably younger and smaller than our girls now.
I don't want any of the hens or chicks to get stressed out so maybe we will try to locate some chicks that are similiar in size to ours (Thanks Steph!). Pecking...
I am so glad I found you all!!!
I'm Cat, stay at home mom to 4 kids (6, 3 and 18 mo old twins), Sky (our pit bull baby), Icis (cat) and our 7 "girls" (barred rock).
We live on almost 3 acres and along with the girls have a nice veggie and herb garden and vermicomposting (raising worms:lol:)...
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I don't know?? What would cause them to do that?
Since their was no blood and I would think that will another predator their would be something,, just skin pulled away from the neck.
I went out this morning to let the girls out and found one of them dead. The others were huddled together in an opposite corner.
My question is she was fully intact, their was some skin pulled away from her neck, but no bite wounds or blood that I could find. Her feathers were almost matted...
We are in SC and my husband is using bamboo:)
He attached some 2x4's extended from the wall of the coop and then attached bamboo from the 2x4's.
Our ladies love it!