Help! Found a poor chicken that fell off a poultry truck

[Cjcyndi]

Yes I also believe that is a male. And he's quite young. Cornish cross get big fast, that bird is likely somewhere around a month to two months old, give or take.

Yea I think it’s about 6 weeks. I already have a rooster and he’s not very nice. Idk if Cornish cross roosters can get mean or are they different because of their genetics?

 

[Logar]

Um, actually, not designed, we ADAPTED.
I value your unique perspective and would just love to discuss this with you, another thread perhaps?

This is my take on it: I've lived with numerous, multi-species my entire life. I like to study animal behavior (working towards someday being an animal conversationist/biologist) & also train dogs. Here at the sanctuary, I care for about 100+ different individuals. I've concluded that animals are a lot like us in the important ways, like what we value, and how we feel, what stimulates us to feel some things, and even our growth arcs! However, they are or aren't like us, neither is any reason to mistreat other sentient beings.
"It isn't can they reason, but can they suffer?" -quote, forget who.
However, let's review what a conscience is defined as:

1) Allows awareness as to which actions as being either morally right or wrong,
3)Sense of moral goodness or blameworthiness of one's intentions, conduct, or character.
2) Part of the mind that is an internal rational capacity.

Yes, the conscience is a unique human quality, God-given, which also gives us a compassionate heart, one not to be hardened into killing, guides us to harmonious existence. But this only gives mankind a further responsibility as the steward of the Earth.

I voice my opinions but am not above criticism.

Here isn't the place to debate this. please stop

 

[Logar]

Yea I think it’s about 6 weeks. I already have a rooster and he’s not very nice. Idk if Cornish cross roosters can get mean or are they different because of their genetics?

Cornish cross roosters get too big to breed and a lot of times they are too big to even move around well. and the ones I have heard of seem to be a very mixed bag with friendliness

 

[NatJ]

Yea I think it’s about 6 weeks. I already have a rooster and he’s not very nice. Idk if Cornish cross roosters can get mean or are they different because of their genetics?

For any breed, some can be mean and some can be nice. For Cornish Cross, I don't know of anything that would make all of them be alike. So there will probably be some nice ones and some mean ones, and you won't know for sure about this one until you see it happen.

 

[Twilia]

Thanks! What would the ratios be?

I use 1tbsp:1cup

 

[Twilia]

For any breed, some can be mean and some can be nice. For Cornish Cross, I don't know of anything that would make all of them be alike. So there will probably be some nice ones and some mean ones, and you won't know for sure about this one until you see it happen.

Yea, I'm a know-it-all, I get it. I've never raised a mean bird. Ever. In seven years. But I "rehab" everyone's mean cocks (somebody's got to fix everything round' here and *attempt to rehome. They are mostly misunderstood.

It's how you raise them; also, how you deal with the aggression if it comes up. Folks, the "show-them-who's-boss" method DOES NOT WORK! It only escalates the problem. I use the "be kind" method, and it works.

 

[Twilia]

Here isn't the place to debate this. please stop

Wasn't that mentioned there? Like in the second sentence?

 

[NatJ]

Yea, I'm a know-it-all, I get it. I've never raised a mean bird. Ever. In seven years. But I "rehab" everyone's mean cocks (somebody's got to fix everything round' here and *attempt to rehome. They are mostly misunderstood.

It's how you raise them; also, how you deal with the aggression if it comes up. Folks, the "show-them-who's-boss" method DOES NOT WORK! It only escalates the problem. I use the "be kind" method, and it works.

Regardless of whether you think the raising & care are responsible or not, the fact remains that any breed contains some roosters that cause trouble for their owners and some roosters that do not. So looking at the breed of a chicken and trying to predict his future behavior is not going to be very accurate, which was the point I was making.

And your experience does not explain the times I have raised a large bunch of chicks (several dozen), and a few males became aggressive toward me while the others did not. These were cases when all the chicks lived in the same pen, I fed/watered/cleaned the whole pen without singling out any individual chicks, and they even got the same amount of handling (weigh every chick on the same day, change legbands on the same day, etc.) No, I didn't try to "show them who's boss." I wore rubber boots and long pants until butchering day, and the mean ones were at the head of the list when that day came.

So was I raising them right? (Most males not a problem) Or wrong? (Some males were a problem.) I don't think there is any one explanation that covers all situations.

 

[Eggcessive]

A chicken sling or chair is a good idea to get her up and in front of water and food for periods throughout the day. Attach food and water right in front. See link below. Then also let her out of it to rest, sleep or move around a bit. I would lift her up as well to get her used to standing. The bumblefoot on her foot pad could be treated with sugar and a few drops of Betadine made into a paste, and used on her foot with a 2x2 dressing and vet wrap. Some also use Prid instead of the sugardine. Inexpexpnsive Betadine can be found at Walmart in the first aid/bandaid aisle with the name Equate First Aid Antiseptic. Here are 6 pages of chicken sling designs:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/versions-of-chick-chairs-please.1166308/
Bumblefoot dressing application:

 

[Twilia]

Regardless of whether you think the raising & care are responsible or not, the fact remains that any breed contains some roosters that cause trouble for their owners and some roosters that do not. So looking at the breed of a chicken and trying to predict his future behavior is not going to be very accurate, which was the point I was making.

And your experience does not explain the times I have raised a large bunch of chicks (several dozen), and a few males became aggressive toward me while the others did not. These were cases when all the chicks lived in the same pen, I fed/watered/cleaned the whole pen without singling out any individual chicks, and they even got the same amount of handling (weigh every chick on the same day, change legbands on the same day, etc.) No, I didn't try to "show them who's boss." I wore rubber boots and long pants until butchering day, and the mean ones were at the head of the list when that day came.

So was I raising them right? (Most males not a problem) Or wrong? (Some males were a problem.) I don't think there is any one explanation that covers all situations.

Nah, a lot of people like to debate the whole innate/genectic behavior vs. learned, or stimulated behavior. Facts are, as cocks grow up, they may be sweet and all, but sometimes there may be a outside stimulus (i.e. presence of hens, other roo's, children, threats, ect.) that provoke their hormones, which can dictate thier thoughts (it all has a pupose as survival aid) Chickens have 3 responses: Freeze, Flight, or Fight.

If aggression were to show up, some people use the "boss" method because they assume the cock is challenging them and submission is the only cure. That is promblematic to both of you, and others like me.

Heck, maybe your rubber boots were a stimulus for him, because he thought it was a threat or challenge. He is fearful, i.e. overthinking it, & perceives your presence/the boots as a problem. He reacts to that problem (if you react to his reaction in a negitive way, like picking him upside down by the legs, you are only showing him he is right to fear/persieve you that way)

Just some him you come in peace, that your presence is good/rewarding/neutral for him. Change the perspective, change the reaction. Simple.