Should I Separate Her?

[FlipFlopFarmer6279]

I have a sweet little French Black Copper Marans who I think has something wrong with her leg or her foot. I'm leaning towards the foot injury because she has a swollen red spot. It's not big but she has a hard time walking. The other chicks are at that age where they get rougher and louder to establish the pecking order, and I don't want Winnie (the hurt chick) to be trampled. Should I separate her or leave her be incase it heals soon. What I don't want to happen is I take her away for too long and have to re-introduce her. Need help fast! The other chicks are SO much bigger than her.

 

[sourland]

Can you separate her along with a couple of the most mellow chicks?

 

[the_peanut_coop]

When my first batch of chicks had a weak silkie chick in it, I seperated them with a D'uccle and and a bantam barnyard mix! The silkie chick was not bullied due to the choice of chicks. He grew to be a strong roo with an odd attraction to white leghorns....

 

[FlipFlopFarmer6279]

Can you separate her along with a couple of the most mellow chicks?

I can try but they are all way too rough for her.

 

[FlipFlopFarmer6279]

When my first batch of chicks had a weak silkie chick in it, I seperated them with a D'uccle and and a bantam barnyard mix! The silkie chick was not bullied due to the choice of chicks. He grew to be a strong roo with an odd attraction to white leghorns....

Sadly I can't do that because this is my only batch of chicks at the moment. But...I might want to try that later on.

 

[the_peanut_coop]

Sadly I can't do that because this is my only batch of chicks at the moment. But...I might want to try that later on.

So how many do you have?

 

[the_peanut_coop]

So how many do you have?

Cause I only had one batch !

 

[FlipFlopFarmer6279]

Only 5 others

 

[the_peanut_coop]

Only 5 others

there were 12 chicks in my first batch

 

[FlipFlopFarmer6279]

Her leg is healed! I let her walk around the floor everyday without helping her until she could find a way to fly back into the brooder and it worked! It only took a week!