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ChooksinChoppers

ChooksinChoppers

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And thanks to 3Bird's post and all you helpful lovely people, I knew just what to do. She? was hanging out with the chickens at first helping them eat their morning treat of scratch and then after she got chased off a few times she decided to hang out with me on the back deck. I caught her a couple of nights later when she decided to roost on the deck railing and popped her into a little dog crate and into our spare room for the night. Daughter and I were glad we were able to grab her because we have more than a few owls that hunt our back yard at night and numerous hawks in the daytime. Problem is we didn't have a cage big enough and even though our coop has an attached run that is also covered (used to be a horse stall) and was nice and secure with hardware cloth all round it would have complicated my chicken keeping terrible..so...I had a couple of x pens that I didn't need anymore and covered the top and bottom with some scrap cage wire, a few hundred :p zip ties later and voila! I had contacted the local pigeon racing club to see if they wanted her back but the lady texted back for us to keep her as they are usually culled. I presumed a male bird at first and named it Rodger the racing pidgeon because of the all white cere but upon further reading decided it must be a female..who knows :idunno now I can't think of a girls name at all
 
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ChooksinChoppers said:
I may have to divide the horse stall/chicken run if I can...and then yes, get some more friends..she seems lonely. But construction type work and my 62 year old bad back don't always agree :old the SSD income either:rolleyes:
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Just take your time. I know how you feel, I'm on SS now and not up to heavier work. Given your FL climate you can figure a way to give her a protected roost/nest box without too much heavy construction. She will be fine in the cage you have for the time being. :)
 
biophiliac said:
Just take your time. I know how you feel, I'm on SS now and not up to heavier work. Given your FL climate you can figure a way to give her a protected roost/nest box without too much heavy construction. She will be fine in the cage you have for the time being. :)
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Thanks so much for saying that! whew! last thing I want is to be a bad pigeon momma and even building the one I did just about killed me...took all day and 3 pain pills later
 
ChooksinChoppers said:
Thanks so much for saying that! whew! last thing I want is to be a bad pigeon momma and even building the one I did just about killed me...took all day and 3 pain pills later
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You could place a small cardboard box at one end with a piece of wood on top to give her a place to roost up off the floor. I would probably enclose about half the cage with that tarp and leave half open. Twist ties, bungee cords and tarps will work magic! :) She will also need some grit, smaller than chicken size.
 

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