FREE in MI...2 wk old chick with OCD

[shelleyb1969]

I have a 2 week old Delaware chick that needs a home FAST. I've never seen a chicken so young with OCD...it's a feather picker. I have no patience to deal with it.

Seriously. This chick just has an uncontrollable urge to pick at the others. If I can't find it a home today, it's headed for the golden chicken coop in the sky.

 

[Domestic_goddess]

Is it actually removing feathers from other chicks or only itself?

 

[shelleyb1969]

It's removing feathers from other chicks.

 

[Domestic_goddess]

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Maybe you could seperate it for a while?

 

[shelleyb1969]

It's been put into 4 separate brooders with older chicks...some as old as 8 weeks...and it still does it. This chick is very determined. The only time it won't pick feathers is if the lights are out. I'm sorry, but I already have 8 brooders between my house and garage...I just can't set up another one for just one chick...it's just not rational to run a heat lamp for a single bird. The little fella just needs a new home with someone with more patience than I have.

 

[Domestic_goddess]

Sounds like you've made up your mind.....Good luck

 

[kathyinmo]

Sounds like a chicken nugget, Shelley!

 

[Chickenfur]

how far are you from the IL/WI border?

 

[shelleyb1969]

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Or chicken-on-a-stick.

 

[shelleyb1969]

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Too far

...I'm over in the Michigan thumb.