EMERGENCY!!! Night coming! Bantam Chicken on The Roof!!!!

[OddsBodkins]

I'm assuming it is already dark now. I hope you can get him down ok!

 

[DogAndCat36]

And how did he get up there in the first place?

I don't know. They can fly. Like actually fly. Just patheticly. I say one gliding off a tree and aimed upwards and flew.

 

[DogAndCat36]

Bad news. He was inching towards me very slowly and occasionally bunching as if he was going to jump. He went to the lowest point of the roof and bunched for about a minute. He turned around and just sat down. I had to go inside, he gave up.

 

[DogAndCat36]

The weather says that it will be 10 Fahrenheit at midnight and the wind will be 2mph. Will he be ok? I have chickens that can endure 10 below but that is with other chickens warming them up and no wind blasting them.
Edit- He was also in a tree all day so he has no food in his crop.

 

[Artichoke Lover]

what breed of chicken is he?

 

[DogAndCat36]

what breed of chicken is he?

Mix, Golden Laced Sebright/Silver Duckwing OEGB. He was raised by an easily frightened Sebright, I frigged up when I decided a jumpy hen should brood.

 

[HobbitWife]

Did you check their run/the coop, etc, for predators? We had a raccoon hide in the coop at dusk once, and one of our hens jumped on the garage roof to escape!

 

[OddsBodkins]

Oh no! Hmmm....is there anything like a long pole or something you could sort of "sweep" him off with? If he is still at lowest point of roof pitch? Then toss a blanket over him once he lands? We have used a long-handled fishing net taped to a clothes-line pole to get a hen off of a branch too...

 

[DogAndCat36]

Did you check their run/the coop, etc, for predators? We had a raccoon hide in the coop at dusk once, and one of our hens jumped on the garage roof to escape!

There are no predators. My other chickens are in the coop.

 

[DogAndCat36]

Oh no! Hmmm....is there anything like a long pole or something you could sort of "sweep" him off with? If he is still at lowest point of roof pitch? Then toss a blanket over him once he lands? We have used a long-handled fishing net taped to a clothes-line pole to get a hen off of a branch too...

It is pitch black and I can't go outside. The garage is very tall, like two stories high or more.