we learned 2 things while trying to treat the injured hen, isolate the hen, or the others steal your cotton balls ,an try to eat them and/or help in some other way . And keep a close eye on the rooster with chicken stick in hand(we use a green plastic flyswatter)i never have even swatted them with it. have been waving it at them since they were chicks and telling them to fear the chickenstick, they do
I love your humor . I find chicken curiosity cute but tremendously irritating when I'm trying to get serious business (like coop/run cleaning) done. I also have a favorite "chicken stick". I'd never use it, of course, but just telling them they'd make a great pot of soup or roast, in combination with waving my chicken stick, seems to keep the worst misbehaving chicken in line
I use an old tobacco stick! Just pointing it helps. I usually take my injured girls up the handicapped ramp & onto the deck to check out & work on. So far, they haven't followed. (It's a loooooong ramp & they have short attention spans!)
