DogAndCat36
Crowing
On Tuesday, 6 of my chickens got killed by a stupid raccoon. Well, I locked the chickens in the coop until I could catch the beast, good news, I caught it on Wednessday. We also have arranged to rehome all the roos, besides Falcon around this time. Well after 2 days of being locked in, my sibling barged into the coop while I was gone to get the roos... in the daytime. My chickens are petrified of my siblings so this must have been just like a predator breaking into the coop in their eyes. They were fully awake and aware, it would have been better for me to grab them at night when they are tired and not so aware of their surroundings, both sides.
So in all, my chickens are less than half of their flock size, 8 being present and 9 are gone. One rooster, 7 girls (lucky guy I know) and they are acting weird. It has been 4 days since the incident and I finally felt that it is safe enough to let my chickens out. So, Falcon, he doesn't listen to his name or commands anymore. Also, I went outside with a bowl full of like 11 eggs worth of scrambled eggs and they just walked around me, paying the eggs little mind. They would usually run up to me, shoving in front of each other to get some, I feed them by hand. They would rake their beaks across my legs and back to tell me that they wanted more. The only one that actually approached me today was Spring, she is pretty tame, and she just was constantly raking her beak on my pant leg. I offered her some and she ignored me, I tried to touch her, she would back away and then start raking my leg again.
So how do I help them? I never dealt with an attack so horrible since they were less than a year old, similar to how bad this went down and multiple times. Am I just being overactive and I'm just over observing?
Sorry for the lengthy text.
Thank you
So in all, my chickens are less than half of their flock size, 8 being present and 9 are gone. One rooster, 7 girls (lucky guy I know) and they are acting weird. It has been 4 days since the incident and I finally felt that it is safe enough to let my chickens out. So, Falcon, he doesn't listen to his name or commands anymore. Also, I went outside with a bowl full of like 11 eggs worth of scrambled eggs and they just walked around me, paying the eggs little mind. They would usually run up to me, shoving in front of each other to get some, I feed them by hand. They would rake their beaks across my legs and back to tell me that they wanted more. The only one that actually approached me today was Spring, she is pretty tame, and she just was constantly raking her beak on my pant leg. I offered her some and she ignored me, I tried to touch her, she would back away and then start raking my leg again.
So how do I help them? I never dealt with an attack so horrible since they were less than a year old, similar to how bad this went down and multiple times. Am I just being overactive and I'm just over observing?
Sorry for the lengthy text.
Thank you