- Apr 8, 2011
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So ... watching the coop last night just before door closing time, and there's this white chicken going up the ladder and into the coop. All well and good ... except we don't have any white chickens. Go out to the coop and sure enough, there's a white bird in the coop. Beautiful bird, really pretty. Clucking like one of the girls, so I'm thinking it's a hen.
Chased it around until I could get a hand on it and put it into a different pen as I have no idea whether she's is healthy or not. And then she climbs the chain link fence and ends up roosting at the top of the fence. (She really DID climb the fence, you'd've had to have seen it!)
Anyway, this morning, she's a crowing. Obviously 'she' is a 'he!' Looked at him more closely and I'm thinking it's a young Delaware.
Now we have to decide what to do with him. Technically we could probably keep him. We are in the City limits and the limits here are no roosters. But we also live on property and everyone around us also has roosters. We hear them off in the distance.
Long story short ... if we decide to keep him, how long should we quarantine him?
Are there any shots, etc., I should give him to ensure his health before allowing him to comingle with the girls?
And then I need to figure out how to keep him on his side of the fence. I clip wings on my girls and I have no problem chasing him down and clipping one of his as well. But he climbs fences!
In another thread, you'll see that we had another of our older girls die last night. That's three in the last three months. I'm not sure what's going on there either. We still have so much to learn!
Thanks for your thoughts and help!
Chased it around until I could get a hand on it and put it into a different pen as I have no idea whether she's is healthy or not. And then she climbs the chain link fence and ends up roosting at the top of the fence. (She really DID climb the fence, you'd've had to have seen it!)
Anyway, this morning, she's a crowing. Obviously 'she' is a 'he!' Looked at him more closely and I'm thinking it's a young Delaware.
Now we have to decide what to do with him. Technically we could probably keep him. We are in the City limits and the limits here are no roosters. But we also live on property and everyone around us also has roosters. We hear them off in the distance.
Long story short ... if we decide to keep him, how long should we quarantine him?
Are there any shots, etc., I should give him to ensure his health before allowing him to comingle with the girls?
And then I need to figure out how to keep him on his side of the fence. I clip wings on my girls and I have no problem chasing him down and clipping one of his as well. But he climbs fences!
In another thread, you'll see that we had another of our older girls die last night. That's three in the last three months. I'm not sure what's going on there either. We still have so much to learn!
Thanks for your thoughts and help!
