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mollybuck said:
I use a bandage tape. It sticks to itself but not their toes. I replaced it everyday to make sure the toes were staying. I just put one piece on the bottom and top just big enough to spread the toes correctly and have enough to "close" together....it only took a couple of days.
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I had used a bandaid when we had a curled toe chick from our hatch last year. It worked fine but I felt so bad trying to get it off after two days (to replace it with a 'bigger size' since they grow so fast). The bandaid stuck to the sin really bad and it was hard to get it off gently. Bandage tape sounds like it would be perfect.
 
emorems0 said:
A few pictures as I was putting the birds away for the night... Turkeys found a new place to roost... the top of the coop is covered in poop :sick The heritage birds for my meaty project say chicken tractors are just for fat birds... we want to roost in the tree with the other turkeys! They couldn't even be swayed by an evening meal in the tractor. Delaware and dark Cornish (DC on the left, harder to see in the dark) My future broodies from CC... they were desperately trying to get out of their quarantine crate... my guess is they really wanted to roost too. My 7yo accidentally let them out with the other birds for a treat this afternoon and they seemed to well with the meaties, but the turkeys weren't too fond of them. These orps are very skittish and don't like to be handled (yet, haha) so catching them to put them back in the crate was fun. I also got to chase a meat rabbit around the yard today because one of the girls left the cage unlatched. Thankfully he's really scared of the chickens so he kept returning to his cage area and I was able to catch him and put him away. I really thought he was gone for a while until there was a big commotion by the chicken run.
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They will calm down with handling and treats. I don't handle my birds much, so they start on the skittish side. It serves them well against predators. I have open top runs and don't close my coops.
 
The light colored pullet is almost always inside. She is either super shy, or she is getting ready to lay.
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AnneInTheBurbs said:
Quiet in here today, everyone must be outside enjoying harm weather!
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I started before 7 cleaning coops and moving tractors (that's chicken tractors, not the kind that can move under their own power).
Caught and confined a new broody that showed up with 2 chicks - I wonder if I can put a bunch more in there for her to care for? She's a mean one, I wonder if she can count?

I'm back home now and having trouble getting motivated to go back into the heat.
 
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i guess hes doing good, hes at least drinking, not sure if hes eating but hes alot more alert today than yesterday,when i first started on his feet, he cried like i was trying to kill him but now he seems to know that i'm trying to help and talks to me, hes a guinea , never had one this tame before
right now i have two cripples to take care of, my hubby, had a knee replacement on the 22nd and this chick, the chick is the easiest to take care of, he doesn't get in my road
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