Show me... your special needs chick/chicken

[ZooMummzy]

She's beautiful

What is mcmurray disease?

How does she do outside? Do the other chickens accept her? I went back and forth about putting Quincy outside. She wouldn't be able to be with my other chickens....I've already tried it....so she wouldn't have anyone to snuggle up with, plus there is no way she could get away from a predator. I think I would just be too worried and end up bringing her in every night anyway.

 

[Stormhorse23]

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i probably shouldnt have mentioned it but a while back on here with had an issue with chicks all having the same disease coming from the same place. this was one of the only ones i had survive. she really isnt excepted by any except my sebrightx and my silkie who sits on her at night. its funny to see her sitting on another chicken...the same size

 

[Chickenaddict]

Awww those stories are so heart warming. Its nice to know there are others out there like me. I also have a special needs chicken her name is pumpkin. I got pumpkin last year at a critter exchange held in the feed stores parking lot in the fall. She is a buff japanese hen with really bad feet. One foot has only 1 and a half toes left the others had apparently fallen off and the other foot only has 2 toes. The foot with only one and a half toes she holds up most of the time because its too painful for her to keep it on the ground. I made her a special box out in the garage with a big tub full of dirt and loaded with pine shavings on the floor area. She has 2 perches and a light i keep on for her during the day. She used to be housed with another little hen i got at the same time but she went on to raise a clutch of eggs she and pumpkin had hidden in their pen. They buried the eggs every day for at least a week by the time i found them there was 10. I started out letting them set on the eggs together but when it came time for the first baby to hatch it no sooner escaped the egg and pumpkin killed it. I immediately pulled her out so she didnt harm any other babies that were due to hatch. Back in her lonely pen she went. She cried alot so i let her outside to free range by herself and away from the other chickens because they pick on her really bad and suddenly my rooster who is a white cochin bantam found out she was living in the garage and started visiting her on a daily basis until i finally decided to keep him in there for her. I watched them the first night and both were snuggled up next to each other just happy as larks. The next day i opened the fron of the pen to give them both the opportunity to free range out in the yard and neither one wanted to leave the comforts of the pen and with everything they needed right in there they never left. It has been 3 days now and still neither one want to go outside they are perfectly content in the box together. She gets along pretty well considering how bad her legs are but i dont know for how long. Not sure whats wrong with them i believe it to be results of spending winter outside when she should of been taken in. If it comes to be she needs both legs amputated then i will be here building her something to tool around in. She will continue to be pampered by me until she passes.

The pic doesnt show both legs just the worst one and the other pic is of her and her boy crash having a tasty slice of 12 grain bread.

 

[ZooMummzy]

My goodness, what a touching story. Thank you for sharing it. I am so glad she has a friend. I wanted that so much for Quincy. I wonder if one of my other chicks turns out to be a roo, that will work? Lol not that I want babies, but who knows?

I'm just worried now about her laying and how it will be for her.

I am so glad I added to this thread and have been able to read all these wonderful stories. It's great!

 

[priszilla]

It was a special needs pair I lost to a predator,onewith a slipped tendon and one that had been chilled young and slowllllly recovered

 

[angelmarie]

wow i think this thread should be out there more. these stories are so inspiring, if any of these chickens that are/wil be posted on here need a home they have on right here with me.

 

[NurseNettie]

Here's one of the first picture of "Bumbles" (the white one). We picked him to be a buddy to Oderus, the lone hatch of our first bunch of eggs, only to now find that he was really the one who needed some special attention.
We're just figuring out that Bumbles is either blind, or has very low vision-- we're leaning towards completely blind. Bumbles was about 4 days old here and will be 3 weeks tomorrow. I'll take more recent pics and post them soon!

 

[Shrader]

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Hey Stormhorse, what is "McMurray disease"? And how does Kieran eat or drink if she can't close her mouth?
She's beautiful, by the way.

 

[ZooMummzy]

What cute chicks Bumbles and Oderus are! I can't wait to see more pics of him

Does he do ok finding his way around? It is probably like my blind dog, after a while, they just learn where everything is.

 

[Stormhorse23]

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Hey Stormhorse, what is "McMurray disease"? And how does Kieran eat or drink if she can't close her mouth?
She's beautiful, by the way.

She scoops it up into her mouth and bobs her head. It's kind of cute