- Sep 4, 2012
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Hello all, before my post let me state that I've done some searching and research but am all very new to this.
On Saturday I brought home a rescue chicken. I believe it is quite young, but do not know for sure. Perhaps you can help me out with that? Also, sex? It's relatively friendly, and I believe it now looks to me as a "mother" or "flock leader" or something like that. The first few nights it spent in my garage but Monday I constructed (poorly) a coop for it outside where it spends the night. During the day I let it out, it seems to just hang out in my garage all day. I can pick it up and carry it outside when I'm out working and it will peck around in tall grass/weeds area next to my garage or barn and be content so long as I'm nearby. If I wonder off too far or too long it makes what I assume are upset noises. If I'm nearby it's very talkative. At night, it's even less independent. It wants to sleep in my lap, and makes what I think are "lovey" noises, it lets me pet it, stroke its feathers, beak, and flies up into my lap whether I'm sitting or not. I went to a feed store and got some Wazine 17 for its water, and some medicated chick feed. It's been getting freeze dried meal worms as a treat. I'd like to know what sex it is, and if there's additional nutritional requirements I may not be meeting for it. I can't get it to take a proper bath and I know it's dirty. I put a few inches of water in a container and set him/her in the water and it immediately gets out. My wife is bringing home a spray bottle so I can mist it at least, but I'd really like it to take a bath. It's going to stop letting me pick it up if every time I do so it gets dunked in some water, so I could use some advice on this. It has taken a "dirt bath" in some mulch beneath a weedy flowerbed but this seems counter-productive. So, how can I get this chicken to stay outside more? I like having fewer crickets in my garage but I need him/her to stay outside, at least more than it is now. Should I use this Wazine continually? Is the antibiotic (Amprolium) in the chick feed okay for the fella? Does it need anything beside chick feed? Is it too old for chick feed? I know two others with chickens, one said it was too young and small to be with his hens yet, and he wasn't sure of the sex. It doesn't crow or balk yet, just tweets like a song bird, especially when it's happy. I'm not interested in eggs or meat, I just want him to live happy.
Any help or suggestions are appreciated.
Thank you







On Saturday I brought home a rescue chicken. I believe it is quite young, but do not know for sure. Perhaps you can help me out with that? Also, sex? It's relatively friendly, and I believe it now looks to me as a "mother" or "flock leader" or something like that. The first few nights it spent in my garage but Monday I constructed (poorly) a coop for it outside where it spends the night. During the day I let it out, it seems to just hang out in my garage all day. I can pick it up and carry it outside when I'm out working and it will peck around in tall grass/weeds area next to my garage or barn and be content so long as I'm nearby. If I wonder off too far or too long it makes what I assume are upset noises. If I'm nearby it's very talkative. At night, it's even less independent. It wants to sleep in my lap, and makes what I think are "lovey" noises, it lets me pet it, stroke its feathers, beak, and flies up into my lap whether I'm sitting or not. I went to a feed store and got some Wazine 17 for its water, and some medicated chick feed. It's been getting freeze dried meal worms as a treat. I'd like to know what sex it is, and if there's additional nutritional requirements I may not be meeting for it. I can't get it to take a proper bath and I know it's dirty. I put a few inches of water in a container and set him/her in the water and it immediately gets out. My wife is bringing home a spray bottle so I can mist it at least, but I'd really like it to take a bath. It's going to stop letting me pick it up if every time I do so it gets dunked in some water, so I could use some advice on this. It has taken a "dirt bath" in some mulch beneath a weedy flowerbed but this seems counter-productive. So, how can I get this chicken to stay outside more? I like having fewer crickets in my garage but I need him/her to stay outside, at least more than it is now. Should I use this Wazine continually? Is the antibiotic (Amprolium) in the chick feed okay for the fella? Does it need anything beside chick feed? Is it too old for chick feed? I know two others with chickens, one said it was too young and small to be with his hens yet, and he wasn't sure of the sex. It doesn't crow or balk yet, just tweets like a song bird, especially when it's happy. I'm not interested in eggs or meat, I just want him to live happy.
Any help or suggestions are appreciated.
Thank you