I found my poor little D'Anver in a really bad state this morning.
It woke me up making noises of being in stress. It's really hot here as it's Summer in Australia and this bird lives in a tin roof small chicken tractor. It's picked on daily by mostly one of my other 2 chickens pretty severely. It has not been able to integrate into the flock they still see it as an intruder after 3 months! So it lives separately in the neighboring field in the tractor which I normally leave open so it can wander outside. The problem is the bigger chicken jumps the fence and starts to beat it up.
Anyway when I woke up and went to see what the noise was about I immediately knew it was in bad shape so I took it inside. It seemed pretty weak not having total control of it's limbs. It was also panting heavily and making an unusual sound as it was panting, I would even describe it as laboured breathing. Also one of it's eyes is half closed that's because yesterday an ant was caught just below the corner of it's eye. I tried to take it out but it kept flinching which made it go further into it's eye, so that's not helping either. It's much cooler inside I just let it sit on my lap for a bit and it eventually stopped the laboured breathing. I tried giving it water but it only had a sip, it's also not interested in food. At the moment it's just sitting in a bedded bird carrier and every now and then it makes a loud squeaky wheeze type sound.
It's wings are clipped and yesterday I found it actually managed to get halfway up a tree in an effort to escape because it's picked on so much. So if it survives I don't know how I can integrate it or what else I can do. I'm about to move houses so maybe that might help as it will be a new area for all the birds. But there is a big difference in size between the D'Anver and the French Maran. The bantam Australorp is the boss though but before that a much smaller Pekin was the boss of the Australorp. So surely there must be a way to integrate the small D'Anver somehow....?
also please don't reply just saying use the search engine to lookup integration because I have tried all the normal things and they didn't work. I need advice specific to my situation.
It woke me up making noises of being in stress. It's really hot here as it's Summer in Australia and this bird lives in a tin roof small chicken tractor. It's picked on daily by mostly one of my other 2 chickens pretty severely. It has not been able to integrate into the flock they still see it as an intruder after 3 months! So it lives separately in the neighboring field in the tractor which I normally leave open so it can wander outside. The problem is the bigger chicken jumps the fence and starts to beat it up.
Anyway when I woke up and went to see what the noise was about I immediately knew it was in bad shape so I took it inside. It seemed pretty weak not having total control of it's limbs. It was also panting heavily and making an unusual sound as it was panting, I would even describe it as laboured breathing. Also one of it's eyes is half closed that's because yesterday an ant was caught just below the corner of it's eye. I tried to take it out but it kept flinching which made it go further into it's eye, so that's not helping either. It's much cooler inside I just let it sit on my lap for a bit and it eventually stopped the laboured breathing. I tried giving it water but it only had a sip, it's also not interested in food. At the moment it's just sitting in a bedded bird carrier and every now and then it makes a loud squeaky wheeze type sound.
It's wings are clipped and yesterday I found it actually managed to get halfway up a tree in an effort to escape because it's picked on so much. So if it survives I don't know how I can integrate it or what else I can do. I'm about to move houses so maybe that might help as it will be a new area for all the birds. But there is a big difference in size between the D'Anver and the French Maran. The bantam Australorp is the boss though but before that a much smaller Pekin was the boss of the Australorp. So surely there must be a way to integrate the small D'Anver somehow....?
also please don't reply just saying use the search engine to lookup integration because I have tried all the normal things and they didn't work. I need advice specific to my situation.
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