Post Your Chicken Survival Stories....

[hiddenflock]

Wow....Starlover21, Sage has had an amazing life, surviving through all of those awful events. I hope the rest of her life consists of continuing to happily run around her pen with her adopted chicks, but with no hawks, angry dogs, or any other predator.

 

[Snowygirl]

Well....

We had a Buff Laced Polish hen named Goldie. She was the 'favorite' hen, a real sweetie. So one day we where in the kitchen when my

little sister bursts in yelling "Mommy!! Mommy, Goldie's hurt!! She's bleeding!!". Sure enough, Goldie was bleeding from a gash in her

neck. She was going into shock...we rushed her to the vet, and they told us that the gash was from her shoulder to her ear, and she would

need stitches. My little sis was close to crying when she looked up at my mum and asked, "Mommy, is Goldie gonna be ok?" How could

she say no? A couple hours later Goldie came home, with 32 stitches. She was hurt, but healthy...a month later Goldie was back with the

flock, and back to being her old goofy self.

Hope that you liked my story!!

 

[Pineywoodstx]

My four month old EE Pullet was in the fenced in back yard with the other two chickens. I heard screaming and ran outside to find Nelda on the ground with a hawk right on top of her. The hawk had hit her so hard there was a halo of feathers on the ground. Thankfully the hawk took off when the crazy lady came out screaming. Poor Nelda had been scalped before I could get there. She spent the next couple of weeks in the chicken hospital but has made a full recovery and has started laying eggs.

 

[RedIII]

My current flock consists of two hens and one rooster, all three of which are the survivors of repeated raccoon attacks. I used to have a flock of six birds, but in the wee hours of a morning a couple of months back, my boyfriend walked outside to feed the animals before work and found two freshly killed hens, one near the coop and the other still inside of it, as though she'd fought tooth and nail to avoid being taken. We set traps out and put a new door on the coop to protect the four remaining birds.

About a month later, the raccoon came back, and this time, my boyfriend woke up at 2:00 am to the chickens screaming. He ran outside in his underwear and chased off the raccoon, which turned out to be a huge critter. Had he not been there, I think we would have lost more birds on both occasions.

Both times, my Marans hen crammed herself into the back of the coop and hid, my rooster flew the coop and went up in a tree, and my BSL hen bolted clear across the yard. Of those three, I'm the most impressed with the BSL. That girl has a strong will to live. She's so slippery to catch in the daylight and sometimes even at night, it's no wonder she got away from the raccoon!

 

[purplequeenvt]

My chicken, Meatball (7 month old Cornish X roo), disappeared last Saturday. I could find absolutely no trace of him so we assumed something carried him off. Today I decided to fill up four rubber buckets for the ducks that were up on the lawn and hadn't been used in a few weeks. I filled the 1st three and then flipped the 3rd one over and there he was blinking up at me. The poor guy spent 5 days under a black bucket (during some very warm weather) with no food or water! Besides being a little dirty, hungry, and thirsty he was perfectly fine!

 

[TheOutcast]

Two days ago I went outside because my chickens where literaly screaming (in a squaking sort of way) There was a hawk circling around the coop! it scooped down and grabbed my Buff orpington hen but she was flapping and scratching so hard that I think the hawk got more hurt than she did! she just got one scratch on her head which is healing fast.