Hi!
I just introduced myself but I also wanted to ask for some guidance with one of our chicks. I hope this is the correct place to do this…
We have a 6 week Favorelle that doesn’t seem to be quite right. We love her to death but we wondered if anyone had experienced this type of thing and if you have any thoughts which may help us.
Our girl has difficulties with everyday situations, learning to eat from a feeder, or a treat. Something may spook everyone and she looks around confused and does her soft confused cry. Everyone is eating and she will be confused about where everyone went and begin wandering about and looking around crying. Amazingly, almost every time one of the other chicks will go and get her and gently guide her to whatever they are doing. If she doesn’t fit on the perch she wants to be on it she will cry and eventually pull someone off the perch. No one gets mad, they just move for her. If she trying to sleep alone and begins to cry because she alone one of the other chicks will come and cuddle up with her.
As an example, one day I gave the girls treats. They were overjoyed. In this day she dashed over to join the excitement. While they were eating the treats she picked up a shaving and dashed about for a second, then began making confused noise. One of our other girls went over to her and walked her to the group, she watched for about 10 minutes and finally began to sample the treats. In another example we recently moved them to a big girl feeder and had to leave the chick feeder in too for her to eat from until she figured out what to do.
We think she may be disabled when we watch her behavior and compare her to her sisters. She’s been like this since we purchased her and we want to help her in any way possible. She seems normal physically and her vision does seem fine. We are concerned about what may happen when we begin to allow them to range on our property but we are willing to keep her from doing so if necessary.
Thank you to everyone who read this far! Does anyone have any suggestions for this type of situation? All thoughts, ideas and experiences are so welcome!
Hugs - Lisa
I just introduced myself but I also wanted to ask for some guidance with one of our chicks. I hope this is the correct place to do this…
We have a 6 week Favorelle that doesn’t seem to be quite right. We love her to death but we wondered if anyone had experienced this type of thing and if you have any thoughts which may help us.
Our girl has difficulties with everyday situations, learning to eat from a feeder, or a treat. Something may spook everyone and she looks around confused and does her soft confused cry. Everyone is eating and she will be confused about where everyone went and begin wandering about and looking around crying. Amazingly, almost every time one of the other chicks will go and get her and gently guide her to whatever they are doing. If she doesn’t fit on the perch she wants to be on it she will cry and eventually pull someone off the perch. No one gets mad, they just move for her. If she trying to sleep alone and begins to cry because she alone one of the other chicks will come and cuddle up with her.
As an example, one day I gave the girls treats. They were overjoyed. In this day she dashed over to join the excitement. While they were eating the treats she picked up a shaving and dashed about for a second, then began making confused noise. One of our other girls went over to her and walked her to the group, she watched for about 10 minutes and finally began to sample the treats. In another example we recently moved them to a big girl feeder and had to leave the chick feeder in too for her to eat from until she figured out what to do.
We think she may be disabled when we watch her behavior and compare her to her sisters. She’s been like this since we purchased her and we want to help her in any way possible. She seems normal physically and her vision does seem fine. We are concerned about what may happen when we begin to allow them to range on our property but we are willing to keep her from doing so if necessary.
Thank you to everyone who read this far! Does anyone have any suggestions for this type of situation? All thoughts, ideas and experiences are so welcome!
Hugs - Lisa
