A bad strike will do it. They don't always get it right. In fact I had a lot of misses and bad strikes from possibly the best hunting hawk in the world and that's the Goshawk.
Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock
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Peanut update - Naked But Not Afraid
She's doing okay I think. She is pretty naked on her legs, breast, belly, shoulders and wings, but things are growing too, and she's eating. That's the coop warmer in the first picture, she likes it and goes there periodically to warm up.
I've also put a heating pad set on low inside a plastic bag and covered with a big T-shirt and a bit of hemp on the roost bars along the back of the roosting area (the green roof seen here is the bottom of that part), it covers a little more than a third of the area, so they can get on it or not, it's available for Peanut, who I suspect though sleeps in the nestbox area which has chopped hemp she can snuggle into (that's the white area above her and the coop warmer here. It probably puts a bit of warmth up there). The evening I put the heating pad in they were afraid of it and two slept on the roost bars and somebody wedged in with Peanut like Yin and Yang into the nestbox, so that was even better.
Here you can also see a bit of the red bowl which I've been putting in Exact baby bird food pudding every morning, she eats a lot of that. She also chows on the Feather Fixer pellets and the last of the brussel sprout greens. It may help that she's Alpha, nobody pushes her around with the food. Hazel takes some liberties but mostly lets her do what she wants. Peanut takes herself away though when things get too close, she hates to be touched now. So when she warms up she stands here or pecks around near it. Sometimes I see them all grouped around it, even someone lying down next to it. They also go up into the coop for daytime rests. Those slots are not vents, just reinforcing curves in the plastic.
Here below is Peanut taking some baby bird formula from my finger before I put the bowl in the back. This was after she saw the bowl in my hand this morning and just laid right into it right there, her beak smacking with the pudding. This was a second round. Warms my heart to see her eating! I have not tried to hold her or feel how skinny she is because of this. I think she is hanging in.
She often stands with one leg tucked up, I think it keeps her nakedness warm against her skin. Why waste the opportunity when you only need one leg at a time?
She's doing okay I think. She is pretty naked on her legs, breast, belly, shoulders and wings, but things are growing too, and she's eating. That's the coop warmer in the first picture, she likes it and goes there periodically to warm up.
I've also put a heating pad set on low inside a plastic bag and covered with a big T-shirt and a bit of hemp on the roost bars along the back of the roosting area (the green roof seen here is the bottom of that part), it covers a little more than a third of the area, so they can get on it or not, it's available for Peanut, who I suspect though sleeps in the nestbox area which has chopped hemp she can snuggle into (that's the white area above her and the coop warmer here. It probably puts a bit of warmth up there). The evening I put the heating pad in they were afraid of it and two slept on the roost bars and somebody wedged in with Peanut like Yin and Yang into the nestbox, so that was even better.
Here you can also see a bit of the red bowl which I've been putting in Exact baby bird food pudding every morning, she eats a lot of that. She also chows on the Feather Fixer pellets and the last of the brussel sprout greens. It may help that she's Alpha, nobody pushes her around with the food. Hazel takes some liberties but mostly lets her do what she wants. Peanut takes herself away though when things get too close, she hates to be touched now. So when she warms up she stands here or pecks around near it. Sometimes I see them all grouped around it, even someone lying down next to it. They also go up into the coop for daytime rests. Those slots are not vents, just reinforcing curves in the plastic.
Here below is Peanut taking some baby bird formula from my finger before I put the bowl in the back. This was after she saw the bowl in my hand this morning and just laid right into it right there, her beak smacking with the pudding. This was a second round. Warms my heart to see her eating! I have not tried to hold her or feel how skinny she is because of this. I think she is hanging in.
She often stands with one leg tucked up, I think it keeps her nakedness warm against her skin. Why waste the opportunity when you only need one leg at a time?
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Oh peanut
get well soon
She looks good.
..even though molting! Bright eyed, alert...and you said she is eating well. She will look like bad hair day for a while, but she will be more covered with feathers soon...you can see the growing quills on places.Is that an eglu coop/run? If so, do you like it?
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My church ladies made the local newspaper headlines today. (Exceptional people)View attachment 2930197
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Black and white and red........Now that I mention it, doesn’t this chicken look kinda like a newspaper?View attachment 2930213
That was a calcium beverage. 3.3g calcium premixed per l liter h2o
She’s a kind little lady, doesn’t cause problems. But her sisters Gezz!
So then what? You have a kitchen bowl full of oily mice. What do you do next?
Thanks for asking. It is hard to tell. She may be a little better, or it may be she is the same but adapting. For example she comes down the steps using a different technique.@RoyalChick How is Maggie doing today? A little more stable, I hope....or have you been enabling her by placing a bottle of wine in the nest box? (If so, it's white, I hope, as that is supposed to go with chickens)
She is putting herself to bed in a nest box.
She definitely isn’t worse so I am holding on to that for now.
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