Hi Sara and Dawnclucks
Thank you for all your advice. We are on day 5 and she is eating and drinking by herself. She didn't like any of the soft foods; all the other chickens did though :-) But we got the vitamin supplement for her/their water. She is perching at night and during the day and...
Hi Sara
Thank you for advice on vitamins. Will get that. Yes, they are only free ranging when we are out in garden and they like a chat. If she doesn't take feed tomorrow thought of buying baby chick feed as she loved pinching it when the little chicks were first introduced to coop.
Hi Dawnclucks
Thank you.
Yes, she ended coming in tonight as all the other hens started getting a bit rough with her. She eat more corn from my hand and water too. I sat with her, while she was in her nest (in a box) and she started chatting back to me for first time since attack. She came...
We have just suffered our first fox attack:-( Two ten week old chicks; one male and one female were taken. No sign of female but males feathers everywhere. We found Claudia, one of two hybrids at the back of the enclosure. First we presumed she was dead, then barely alive. She had no...