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And that's exactly how I ended up getting them in. I swept them in with the rake, no eye contact.

I released the older babies. Well half. I hate them. They are doing dangerous things right now. I see broken legs everywhere. I don't know how exactly but 3 are on the coop roof. 1 is around the bottom. It's overcast and early owl time and no sign of these fools finding the door. I really don't...

Honestly if they have a coop why wouldn't you want to keep them in it? I have 18 babies and there is a good chance that by next spring I will have zero once again. When I said I was fed up with losing birds, I didn't mean emotionally (except for baby that is an exception). No. I meant in terms...

@duluthralphie could you just throw the eggs under another hen? I@Nickeyo very unusual. My birds didn't roost in a tree until the oldest went up. After that I could never get them down and that's why all of my first batch is dead. Chose the oak with the coons in it. Smh. Maybe sit one of them...

@duluthralphie Yea. I try to stay detached but all that changed when I hatched my own eggs and had to nurse a sick one. My batch was unusually curious I think because of my lingering presence. I will never hatch my own eggs unless my numbers become greatly reduced again. And these guys...

Guineas live hard and die fast. Sorry you lost one, hope your little replacements do better. Every time I lose a bird I try to not make much of it, just send them on with a message of gratitude or say something like one life dies, so another can live blah blah but collectively the sh*t is...

Um question...my babies, that I buy, had gone a winter and then laid their first eggs next spring. Is it highly unusual to get eggs in the fall from 4-5 month old birds? For some odd reason I think this one random hen will be laying come Sept. Probably cause I do not have room for 1 more bird...

Did the delinquents make it back?

Baby grew 26 grams in 5 days and got a new splint. I guess he is gonna be ok. His morale was doing a number for a minute but ever since he got his new home he has been doing great. He thinks he runs this flocks. Crazy bird. He is an odd little guy. There is usually always one that just isnt like...

I believe this is true. Humans judge animal behaviour according to human behaviour and so the birds seem senseless. Somedays I just sit with the birds in my yard and watch them. They express themselves to each other and once familiar you recognize behaviour patterns - when they found really good...

Ok so yesterday the siblings had a very closely supervised play date, almost 2 hrs, mostly cause I figured vet visit would be all bad news. Babys moral shot through the roof immediately. I put his siblings back in their pen and held baby. He slings his neck over my finger like a goose and...

Actually he isnt putting any weight on it anymore. Ever since the rubberband incident he has gone 1000 steps backwards. He doesnt even paddle with it now since this morning. When I inspected him this afternoon I saw the hock joint is suddenly deformed. That occurred since Monday which was the...

@harley587 The leg isnt drawn up into his body but when I removed splint it didnt look good. Refer to pic. Trying to help may have made it worse. Going to a non bird vet for guidance may have made it worse. Trying to splint it may have made it worse. The rubberband and straw technique was the...

Took 2 days but they came out. Had to guide the last guy to the door, he was lost. All the older babies on their perch.

He is already hobbling on it. Gonna pull splint off and redo it tomorrow just to check to make sure there were no indentations in leg or loss of blood flow and check tendon. The hobble for splayed leg came off but his foot is flat on ground anyway. I just used it to draw leg forward. Doing good...

Ok so after weI got him out of the car I told you guys the splint had done fallen off but tendon was in the groove. Well once I went to re-splint him I could no longer feel the tendon. I cant understand it because it was obvious before. This led me to assume it was still in. I splinted it. Now...

Will do. :)

He is doing crazy good. Went to vet. $42...ya ya i know. Lol. But I got instructed. She..the tech.. said I did DG..***** good. She said rom was excellent and indicates no scarring in joint or deformity. No fracture. No swelling, abrasions or bruises or colorations indicative of infection. Great...

@harley587 I have been doing stretches 3x a day since the incident. He has been adjusting well and is still getting around to eat sleep poop. So long as he remains active and doesnt display signs of much pain I will continue to work with him. As of now dispatching him would not be so much...