- Apr 4, 2009
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So ever since one of my girls was injured I'm feeling like I'm in over my head. I just have a few random questions.
Is there anything around a typical yard that I should be worried about them getting into? They like to scratch around in the grass clipping pile and yet I thought I read something about "decaying vegetation" and it causing some type of disease?
I let my kids (and their friends) handle the birds, should I be concerned about this?
I've read a lot about "coop clothes" and "shoes" our coop is small so we don't actually walk inside it, but we do handle the birds and do regular maintanance with just our regular clothes on. Is this a problem, do I need to change everytime I deal with the birds? What about my kids?
How do I go about re-introducing my injured bird to her friends? Assuming of course she gets better, I've heard they may reject and/or peck at her?
Now that they're outside free ranging most of the day, do they need grit that I give them? They had it in the brooder but I thought they would access enough on their own now.
That's all folks...for now.
Is there anything around a typical yard that I should be worried about them getting into? They like to scratch around in the grass clipping pile and yet I thought I read something about "decaying vegetation" and it causing some type of disease?
I let my kids (and their friends) handle the birds, should I be concerned about this?
I've read a lot about "coop clothes" and "shoes" our coop is small so we don't actually walk inside it, but we do handle the birds and do regular maintanance with just our regular clothes on. Is this a problem, do I need to change everytime I deal with the birds? What about my kids?
How do I go about re-introducing my injured bird to her friends? Assuming of course she gets better, I've heard they may reject and/or peck at her?
Now that they're outside free ranging most of the day, do they need grit that I give them? They had it in the brooder but I thought they would access enough on their own now.
That's all folks...for now.
