Help! Dog Attack.

[IndigoJaguar]

Awesome!! I'm so glad she is looking better. It might take awhile, but if her leg isn't broken, she should continue to get better.

cause i dont speak very good greek

Does this mean you live in Greece?

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[deedee karoshi]

hey yep i live in greece but im irish!! thank you so much il check it out!!!

 

[IndigoJaguar]

Out again in the sunshine today! They are both walking better, and in only one week too! I would put them in with the flock, but I'm concerned about the roo trying to ride them and hurting them, so I guess I will wait til I think they are more healed. DH thinks maybe one of them may have broken ribs; she is breathing harder than normal.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Glad to hear their able to get out and enjoy the sunshine, broke ribs sounds painful, you made a wise decision not to put them back with the roo. Have a Blessed Easter!!!

 

[IndigoJaguar]

I wonder if anyone has opinions about me putting the injured ones in the greenhouse with the 6 week olds? Would I need an integration period? Or could I just stick them in and watch them?

 

[Miss Lydia]

you could try it and just watch to see if problems arise. you might have to intervene then again maybe not.

 

[IndigoJaguar]

Well....tried to let one of the girls out with the rest of the free rangers, but they picked on her so much I took her away. The rooster broke up the fight a few times, but I just wasn't comfortable with leaving her there. Grrrr!!

I was hoping to get them out of the house....they are starting to be unhappy being caged in, and making a mess in my back porch.
Was I too overprotective? Should I have let them pick on her a bit? How much is ok and what is too much?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Is there some way they can all be together but not be able to hurt the 2 that are recouping? like put up some type of fenceing for the time being to keep them separate but still be able to see each other. Thats the only problem with having to take an injured one away from the flock when you try to reintroduce them back to the flock they look at them as intruders. if you could do this inside of the coop that would be the best that way their all together in their own house. If they were pecking her I wouldn't put her back with them yet. especially if she still has wounds.

 

[IndigoJaguar]

I could maybe put them in a dog cage inside the run, but then to make that really work I would have to keep them all penned in for a few days. My flock has been free ranging everyday. I have been putting the injured ones out in a run where the others can see them, but since they free range, they only see them in passing. My coop is pretty small to put another cage inside of it....4x8...and with nine birds sleeping in there every night? I don't know how I would put them in.
Well....I'll figure out something. What a pain!

 

[Miss Lydia]

I know it can be such a pain when something like this happens, my flock free ranges too, but maybe the dog crate in a dusk and over night then then while the flock is free ranging you could let the girls out into the run to move about a bit, then when flock comes home to roost into dog crate again for eve. i know you'll work out something. good luck