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

[NatJ]

I am sorry @Cjcyndi for taking up so much of your thread...

Since you folks want such explicit answers from me though I have no idea what other factors were in play when you raise these birds, I will try to answer as well as I can give the information, I have...
(Should I start a thread for people to tell me their issues and options or what?).

It is not about never having problems. You will ALWAYS have issues, but you need to deal this them well, to consider them solved.

Roos are all individuals; thus, one cannot predict the behavior from age, breed, etc. But, from my thoughtful experience, I believe that your cocks were probably youngish, like 6+ months old, that's when the male hormones kick in. Now, the aggression; It could have been that the pen was obviously his turf; You were the outsider, a threat. The dominate cocks will take care of the threats. You need TO SHOW HIM YOU MEAN NO HARM for him to stop attacking his perceived threat. No matter what freaking humdrum chores you did, something in his view of you changed. I assume you did not change that perception, only continued with your business. Therefore, he did not change his perception of you as a threat.

As for everything else, REREAD my post more closely, I believe I explained that clearly.

Your point is that all roosters can be fixed. If you want to fix roosters, that doesn't bother me.

My point is that some roosters need to be fixed and some do not need to be fixed. I choose to keep roosters that do not need fixing.

Regarding the rooster attacking me: yes, you're right about age. But he was not the dominant rooster in the pen.

 

[Seaslug]

but any animals being kept alive outside of its "healthy" living time frame is not thriving.

Therefore, the animals deals with health issues a normal animal wouldn't deal with, and that puts them in pain, which is wrong.

I support euthanasia.
But I have a problem with equating "thriving" and "pain" with quality of life. First, honestly judging my life, I doubt I have been "thriving" during even 1/5 of it. I am not a happy-go-lucky person, but I don't know that I need to be put down because I am not thriving.
And many people who I love have experienced physical pain. While pain can certainly diminish one's quality of life, I do not believe that having pain means that one has no quality of life. I just had the honor to experience more than 17 years with my beloved dog. In later years he had arthritis and he did experience some pain, but his life had quality and was not "wrong" morally.
Caring for this animal is not wrong. If you wish to do what you can for this chicken, more power to you. Should the animal's quality of life diminish to the point that euthanasia seems preferable to living, I am sure that you will continue to assist him/her.

 

[BelovedBirds]

What do you think lions do? Chickens eat dead animals all the time. The meat/egg industry is horrible and disgusting, and I hate it, but eating meat isn't a crime. I usually eat plant-based foods, but eating other animals is natural, not disgusting. I wish people could just let the animals live a real life, then kill them, not force them into a terrible life they don't deserve and kill them so young. Again, though, snakes eat rats, lions eat gazelles, sharks eat seals, penguins eat fish, and it's not "disgusting".

I agree eating meat isn't disgusting, it's definitely natural. But it can be immoral depending on the farming methods, which are largely inhumane and not good for the environment, a problem that lions, sharks and penguins don't have to worry about

 

[mrskenmore]

Gosh, you did such a nice thing. I hope she survives this and that the two of you get a chance to tell your story. Bless you.

Well said!!

 

[OrpingtonManiac]

How is he?

 

[mrskenmore]

Yes- update please!

 

[Cjcyndi]

How is he?

Going strong! Its injury on the back side is healing up nicely. What I’m trying to treat is its right foot. If it heals he’ll be good as new!

 

[OrpingtonManiac]

Going strong! Its injury on the back side is healing up nicely. What I’m trying to treat is its right foot. If it heals he’ll be good as new!

that's amazing!

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

And I would also like to add that no cornish cross male is going to prove a threat to you in being mean. As I said before, they're too slow and stupid.

wrong. my old boy Bach (now since rotisseried) was probably the exception to the rule. that being said, he tried to attack my little sister, and was very aggressive and active even as he reached slaughter age.

 

[mrskenmore]

Going strong! Its injury on the back side is healing up nicely. What I’m trying to treat is its right foot. If it heals he’ll be good as new!

Great job momma!