I am so eggcited!
I have 9 EE's and 3 BO's 7 week old chicks. a friend gave them to me when they were a week old so they are straight run but that's another thread I think
. Anyway, I went out to check on them because I am obsessed with my chickies and one of the babies had a bloody butt. So I brought her in the house, inspected and found that someone had picked her tail feathers out and it was bleeding. so I gently cleaned the butt with plain warm water, patted it dry and sprayed some Blue Kote on it. I went through the same thing yesterday with another one except she had a large area on her back picked. When I brought her back out I stayed a while to make sure everything was all right. It was so funny, all the other 11 went up to her and it seemed like they were tasting the Blue Kote, found it not to their liking and they left her alone. So today, I decided to stay out for a few minutes and every time I'm out there I pick up one or two and pet them to get them used to me and not run around like crazy chickens every time I approach. So I picked up one of the BO's and she calmed down pretty good, in fact, I think she was starting to fall asleep in my lap! I put her down and picked up another one and started petting her and the BO jumped up in my lap and stayed there for about 2 minutes!
. I guess my patience is paying off, they are FINALLY getting a little friendly so I'll keep doing what I'm doing! This might not sound like a lot for a bunch of you, but for me, that little chicken jumping up in my lap was AMAZING! (Can you tell these are my first babies??)
