Some people should not have animals... :(

[lorain's fids]

She certainly is "Lucky" to have you to care for her. With the proper care and diet hopefully she will flourish!! It is a shame how some people treat their animals. Thank goodness you were there to take in what they "threw" away.

 

[TheSitcomGirls]

Thank you all for your kind words and suggestions! Sigh...probably no power until next week. Luckily we have two dug wells so we can pull water up bucket by bucket for the animals. It's getting old though!

I will cook Lucky an egg on the grill. I do have some canned cat food as well....turkey I think. Shredded meat, like feed her some cooked hamburger? I have that too. Her crop was smaller this AM than it was last night, but still pretty big. I will check and make sure there isn't anything hard in it when I feed her later. So as long as the size keeps going down some I will try not to worry.

I wrestled with the quarentine question. I brought Lucky in the house for a couple of hours before I put her in the pen and checked her for nose/eye discharge. Didn't see any worms in her poop. She's not missing any feathers...just toes.

So I hope that she will be fine with my peeps....nothing is 100% of course. But I figured that the same wild birds that fly around my coop fly around Lucky's yard too. My peeps and Lucky were probably at the most 200 feet away from each other their entire lives.

I am pretty sure Lucky is 3 years old. I know because she has survived three different dogs next door and two different sets of pullets/peeps that all died. Neighbors got a new dog every year. Always within a couple months after the old dog was run over, taken by animal control or it was just gone one day.

My crossed beak chicken Sophia spends ALOT of time alone inside eating. Now she will have someone to hang out with! For Sophia I have 3 mini feeding stations for 13 (now 14) chickens in addition to the two feeders in their coop. There's always has to be some place for Sophia to eat as she can't eat anything but chicken food.

 

[carladababe]

Careful giving a very high protein diet to a probably dehydrated bird, her kidneys are most likely a little fragile from lack of good nutrition and probably lack of clean water. You need lots of water to breakdown protein. Lots of clean water. Slow and steady, sounds like she's willing to eat so the weight will come. Thank you for being a such good person, she's lucky girl today.

 

[Ole rooster]

I see the word crop used. I don't know for sure what that is. But the way it's used it seems like she talking about what I was raised calling the craw. The area where the food goes for the chicken immediately after eating. Is that the same? Are we talking about the same thing?

 

[chickensbythesea]

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Yep, same thing!

 

[bertman]

LUCKY chicken is right. I hope she lives to a ripe old age and enjoys every day of it.

I won't say what I think should be done to people who treat animals that way. Might get me in BIG trouble.



Thank you for your kindness to that poor bird.

 

[TheSitcomGirls]

I told them and I also made a general pain of myself with Animal Control until they took action with the dogs...that's when the trouble really started!

Lucky has slowed down on her eating. I tried giving her egg and cat food. She scorned it....so I guess we will have to stick with chicken food. I use Purina Layena crumbles which do have a lower protein content than the regular blue seal crumbles. Plenty of water for sure. I massaged her crop last night and felt nothing lumpy. This morning it was not quite as big.

She is finally eating normally now. This morning she ate a couple of grapes and a few bites of tomato, scorned the cucumber. I gave her a tiny handful of scratch and she scarfed it up. All together she consumed close to 4 CUPS of chicken food in a 36 hour period! That's a lot of food!

We are now one of only 28 houses in our town out of 10,000 that STILL doesn't have any power....will get a picture soon....I hope.

 

[terrilhb]

You are an angel for taking her in. She is in great hands now. And from the sounds will live a happy life now. Lucky fits her perfect.

 

[carladababe]

Honestly, I think this is how you earn your seat in Heaven. Random acts of kindness.

 

[TheSitcomGirls]

She is feeling better! I checked on her at noon and she had managed to escape out of the top of the pen. There is a 6 inch gap between the cement wall and the deer netting. The pen is four feet high. She had to go straight up like a helicopter....no wonder she manged to stay alive! I found her outside hollering. I put her back in the pen and she promptly laid a light blue egg in the corner.

All my other Americaunas lay green.