Concerned about Tiny's Integration

[gritsar]

Speckled, my half blind runt Lil' Bit has always done fine with the flock. My roo somehow senses that she's different and watches out for her.
Like yours, Lil'Bit has a hard time pecking at things, especially the pellets in the feeder. I check her crop each evening and if it seems too empty, I give her a treat before bed; usually a piece of bread if I don't have more nutritious treats handy.
The only major problem Lil'Bit has is not being able to see to jump up on a roost at night. She's learned to wait by the door for me to put her up on a roost.
Is she dominated by the other hens? Sure, but she's also learned to stick up for herself and is definitely not at the bottom of the pecking order.

 

[usschicago1]

OMG? Is tiny that chick you had in your pocket that you were debating putting down!!?! Wow i cannot believe he is still alive! Congrats just on that! And BTW if she got this far, i think shell be fine

 

[speckledhen]

Yep, we willed her to live and she did. DH was throwing out crumbled biscuit to the youngsters and while they all ran scrambling to get pieces, Tiny ran all over and was clueless as to what was going on. She didn't recognize that food was being thrown.

 

[Cetawin]

Cyn, this is what I was thinking about doing...either using one of the small coops 3.5 x 5.5 for Faith and Tiny (if I need to bring her home) or taking this one and enclosing the one side and nest and across for a little place to sleep, covering it with hardwire cloth and placing inside my runs...and I could add hotwire around the bottom as extra precaution. They would have more room in this one plus have the benefit of grass, even with a hardwire bottom if needed.

You can see how small Faith is...she is in the right front of the picture, right of Thor and the Dellie, she is always by herself never closer than than to that to anyone because she gets chased away and such