Since Mayberry keeps coming up with morons, I'll add another to the list.
Me.
Apparently I am too stupid for raising chickens. I wanted to let Shiva (the new Brahma that we rescued) out to explore a little bit.
Yeah.
I'm sure that you can all see where this is going.
I'm really starting to get scared that I am going to completely and totally screw this whole process up and that Shiva is going to end up dead (and I'll screw up with the chicks) because I couldn't keep him safe for a day and was dumb enough to think I could catch a bird to re-run him after he'd spent his entire life in a 2x2 box and now had a chance to roam.
I thought about posting this in emergencies, but there isn't much advice that could be given (other than be patient hopefully he'll come back to his coop for sleeping tonight) and I wasn't sure if it should go here or the "Everything Else Chickens" board. So I stuck it here.
*sigh* I keep looking out the window into the thicket (it's about an acre and a half of wild and overgrown heavily treed area that I can barely get through, never mind get through while chasing a determined rooster (and I'm a small woman with no problems with walking through spider webs or getting scratched up, but he's just faster than I am there)) where he ran off hoping he'll come back, but.. He's been here a day, somehow I suspect that he hasn't associated his little coop and run with "home" yet.
Insert a long list of expletives here. I was supposed to have been saving him. I don't think I'm really looking for advice, or even support so much as maybe... For lack of a better word confession, and you guys may not all be ministers but.. You are the chicken gurus in my universe.. *sigh*
All I know is that if he comes back he's not going to get a chance to take off again until he's got his flock (and if he does, I'm going to see if there are a couple of hens someone has that they need to get off their hands, even just as a loan, to create his flock and "tie" him home... But somehow I think it's too late for that.
And we have everything around here. Dogs that run reasonably loose, stray cats, coyotes foxes and possums. You name it, we have it.
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Well, he's staying actually pretty close to the house, I can actually see him out of the front window now, he's out of the trees and on the lawn, so.. I figure either he'll head back to his coop at bedtime or if he roosts nearby and not up in a tree (he isn't a great flyer so that should be good) I will just go get his feathery butt, take him back to his coop and count this as a lesson learned. I will *not* however be chasing him. That lesson I've learned on my own (dumb, not THAT dumb..
)
So maybe this will have a happy ending? (Unless I can't get him tonight and he ends up getting eaten by a coyote
)
Me.
Apparently I am too stupid for raising chickens. I wanted to let Shiva (the new Brahma that we rescued) out to explore a little bit.
Yeah.
I'm sure that you can all see where this is going.
I'm really starting to get scared that I am going to completely and totally screw this whole process up and that Shiva is going to end up dead (and I'll screw up with the chicks) because I couldn't keep him safe for a day and was dumb enough to think I could catch a bird to re-run him after he'd spent his entire life in a 2x2 box and now had a chance to roam.
I thought about posting this in emergencies, but there isn't much advice that could be given (other than be patient hopefully he'll come back to his coop for sleeping tonight) and I wasn't sure if it should go here or the "Everything Else Chickens" board. So I stuck it here.
*sigh* I keep looking out the window into the thicket (it's about an acre and a half of wild and overgrown heavily treed area that I can barely get through, never mind get through while chasing a determined rooster (and I'm a small woman with no problems with walking through spider webs or getting scratched up, but he's just faster than I am there)) where he ran off hoping he'll come back, but.. He's been here a day, somehow I suspect that he hasn't associated his little coop and run with "home" yet.
Insert a long list of expletives here. I was supposed to have been saving him. I don't think I'm really looking for advice, or even support so much as maybe... For lack of a better word confession, and you guys may not all be ministers but.. You are the chicken gurus in my universe.. *sigh*
All I know is that if he comes back he's not going to get a chance to take off again until he's got his flock (and if he does, I'm going to see if there are a couple of hens someone has that they need to get off their hands, even just as a loan, to create his flock and "tie" him home... But somehow I think it's too late for that.
And we have everything around here. Dogs that run reasonably loose, stray cats, coyotes foxes and possums. You name it, we have it.
*~*
Well, he's staying actually pretty close to the house, I can actually see him out of the front window now, he's out of the trees and on the lawn, so.. I figure either he'll head back to his coop at bedtime or if he roosts nearby and not up in a tree (he isn't a great flyer so that should be good) I will just go get his feathery butt, take him back to his coop and count this as a lesson learned. I will *not* however be chasing him. That lesson I've learned on my own (dumb, not THAT dumb..
So maybe this will have a happy ending? (Unless I can't get him tonight and he ends up getting eaten by a coyote
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