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Still chillin' with my peeps
Hi! I have just acquired a young white chicken that fell off the back of a truck (there's a processing plant about 17 miles from here). A lady I go to church with said her mother found it dazed and injured, stumbling beside the road. She took it home, doctored it, and let it recuperate from its injuries ( split breast skin w/ crop exposed, broken foot/toe, injured wing). She thought it was a young pullet. Solid white, lt. pink comb. I got it at church last night (dark, was in a box sleeping, so I didn't disturb it). When I looked at this morning, the first thing that screamed out at me was THICK LEGS!!! It's young, maybe 8 wks. fully feathered, but not thickly feathered, has legs as thick as my thumb, small pinkish but pale comb & tiny wattles. I'm thinking it may be a meat bird; maybe a Cornish rock? The legs are white. Although I do NOT NOT NOT need any more roos,
I will take care of it. How do I keep it from eating itself into an early grave? Another ?? -- do the meat birds typically have large loose stools w/ a large amount of intestinal lining in them? The poo looks nothing like the normal poo from any of my other chickens, but it doesn't have that typical look of the poo from a chicken w/ coccidiosis. Need some help, please!!
