my heart swells for my two new ladies! UPDATES*******

[bburn]

Fishnet1971....what a great story. My heart swells also.
Cottage cheese
yogurt
BOSS.....lots of healthy treats for the new girlies!

 

[awesomefowl]

awwww!

 

[peep this]

Fishnet- Are you keeping your two new girls seperate from the rest of the flock until they build up their strength? We have a rescued hen here that we originally thought was a rooster. She has some pretty bad injuries, so we have kept her seperate from the others because they would probably peck her to bits. We are hoping once she grows some new feathers to cover the bare spots we can get her in with the others. Any tips??

I'm looking forward to seeing more pictures of your new girls. We have been able to tentatively id our mystery bird as a New Hampshire, but she may be a production red....
Thanks!
Deb

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Thats so nice of you for saving them!

 

[fishnet1971]

yup, I have them separated in a section of my coop. I have plexiglass in between the chicken wire. So far only Elly really seems to care about the others. She is going to be a hard cookie with the other girls. She fluffs up her chest and tries to chest bounce the other girls. May seems to care less about them. I wanted to try and quaranten them for awhile anyway in case of any disease.


UPDATE: When I got home yesterday afternoon I went to check on them and found May inside the can of scratch. I have no idea how she got in, but she did and the lid came down on top of her. Scared me at first when I went in and only found Elly looking at me like "what? I didnt do anything?". I couldnt find her until she spoke up. I lifted the lid and almost pee'd my pants. I laughed so hard I almost dropped the lid back on her. She was sitting down in the middle of the scratch, doing what looked like dust bathing in it. Gee, she was trapped in scratch all day? its a hard life but someone's got to do it. She looked like she had died and gone to Heaven. giggle giggle.....

Anyway, I took her out of it and put her down. They had been good all day (probably because May was trapped!) I took May out into my fenced garden and put her down to peck around and see how she was going to do. I was a little leary, didnt know if she would fly over the fence, run away, etc. She had no clue at first. Looked around like "what the heck????" I gave her a tomatoe that had fallen and her eyes lit up. she wandered around pecked here and there and was just as content as could be. She didnt mind if i came up to her, petted her, etc. (she was still in bliss from the scratch I am sure)

I went back and got Elly. brought her into the garden and she was off to the races! scratch, eat, peck, fluff, scratch, cluck, and on and on and on. It was so nice to see! May wandered up to her and cocked her head watching her. Neither girl minded each other. Elly has the dominance though, she has let May know it too. May seemed to chime right in with Elly and they had a ball so i let them be for awhile. I put them back inside at dusk (Elly did not want to go back in) and sat with them. they are both pigging out on yogurt, scratch, crumbles, milk soaked cherry bagels and what ever else I can find for them.

This morning?

I GOT AN EGG FROM ELLY!!!!!!! WHO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
and a SNUGGLE/NUZZEL FROM MAY!!!!!!!

Life is good.

 

[gryeyes]

Quote:
Yes'm, it is. And especially for those two ladies you rescued! Thanks for doing that, and thanks so much for sharing the stories!

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

Those birds would thank you if they could.

 

[fishnet1971]

Oh they thank me every day when i open the coop door!

Thursday Update?????

Got home from work early to work with them and my other flock! I let my girls n boys out of the pen to do their daily 'free roam' bit. I had Elly and May in my garden that is fenced in. From either sides of the fence they all kinda squaked and fluffed up at each other and then my girls turned their snotty fluffy butts and walked away. Cool!!!!!! I let Elly and May out and figured they are gonna run away or stay. They stayed with me all afternoon!!!!! Elly bathed.

May just hung out.

My group came back around and My roos did the usual wing dance around them and my BR roo claimed both girls. (YIPPY!!! that's who i was hoping would love them!) The other girls bumped chests, did a small amount of pecking at each other, flew over each other and then you will NEVER guess what happend?????

Elly kicked some butt evidently, cause my girls ran away. No kidding, they left as fast as a cat on catnip gone wild. it was so funny i almost couldnt stand up. Elly won.

Uh, I think that when she gains some weight she may just be the new top girl. lolololol Anyway, by the end of the night, they were pretty much ok together, eating scratch together, etc. I kept them still separate last night though. I just dont trust them yet. Maybe by the end of the weekend. We will just have to see.


May, my little girl.

 

[newlyweds]

Aww I so love that you rescued these two, and love your updates and how they are doing so very well!! Beautiful gals! Keep the updates coming!

 

[Criskin]

I had to subscribe to this thread. Yours is such a heartwarming story. I'm in love with May. I hope you'll keep us updated!