Greetings from NY

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Jun 21, 2011
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Hello everyone! My name's Mary and I am now the proud owner of a 6 week old bantam chick named Goliath. Gogo had a slipped tendon before he/she was a week old and it was never repaired, so long story short, the owner didn't want it, and now Goliath is livin' large in my home. I'm sure I will have a zillion questions and as soon as this place lets me, I will be posting a zillion pictures. Goliath shares a home with me, my daughter,18, my son 12, two cats and a dog. This is going to be one spoiled chicken.
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Hey Mary
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from Australia!
Incidentally, I first got the experience of owning chickens when I was 12 too
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Goliath sounds like a right sweetheart. You thought of getting a chicken pal for him? Chickens are very social birds, we always get two each time we buy, so they'll have someone to peck around with
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Hope everything goes well for all of you!
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It's an exciting journey.
 
I would love to have a buddy for Goliath. Gogo doesn't get around very easily with only one good leg, so I'd have to find just the right bird. Also, here you have to purchase 6 or more chickens and I don't have that kind of space. Maybe I'll makes some calls and see if there's a farm that has a special buddy they can part with for him/her.

I take in orphaned baby animals quite often. That's how the whole chicken thing started to begin with. A friend from a local school had a chick who hatched with curled toes. I studied on here, took the little one in along with a buddy chick, and fixed the feet. Sent them to a local girl who raises chickens. Then i got a call about two more chicks from a different school. One had curled toes, the other had balance issues. I was able to fixed the curled toes, and sent him home, but I couldn't fix Nugget. Nugget was the one I was going to keep. A week or so later, I get a call about this bantam chick. From everything I read, it was a slipped tendon that had already swollen past fixing. I tried chick chairs, stretching, bandaging, but nothing worked. So, for a while I had two chicks, but poor Nugget passed away. He was definately born with some problems and I tried everything I could, but in the end I let him go. Now I'm back to one little baby who's owner didn't want back when she found out I couldn't fix it.
 

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