Surviving Minnesota!

[I Love Layers]

I let the chicks out to free range with Delilah today.
They all came back good but one. It has literally ripped it's leg off. Minimal bleeding, but the leg is most likely going to fall off, barely hanging onto the rest of the body. It's limp and everything.
If it does lose a leg what should I do?
I won't sell it at the auction Cause it would bring down the price of all the chicks

 

[Cebarmlds]

I let the chicks out to free range with Delilah today.
They all came back good but one. It has literally ripped it's leg off. Minimal bleeding, but the leg is most likely going to fall off, barely hanging onto the rest of the body. It's limp and everything.
If it does lose a leg what should I do?
I won't sell it at the auction Cause it would bring down the price of all the chicks

Remove it's head.

 

[Cebarmlds]

Good morning people.

 

[lvie]

Good morning people.

And GOOD Morning to you erlibrd! My head was not even thinking of rising off the pillow when you posted this morning. So Good Morning and have a happy, productive day. (I dunno - just trying to have a positive projection here.)

Gotta go to a funeral and my travels start at 9:00 to get to the church by 10:30. So I am expecting anyone else on here to have a good day for me also!

 

[I Love Layers]

Remove it's head.

That's what I was thinking. I'll see if it isn't dead already this morning.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Legs on a chicken are very important. If one is that bad, I agree with Erli. So sorry Layers.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Positive thoughts and vibes to you Ivie.

I think I have strep throat. No fun for forty something. Felt it coming on after the trip-thought it was a cold- now throat is like I can barely swallow and voice change. I'll run for mail and accounting for work but it think the rest of the day will be bed.

 

[I Love Layers]

So it's still living. Don't know how, you think it would be so traumatized!
Its leg is pretty much gone, it's just hanging there. So I can't do anything til I get home after volleyball practice. The weirdest thing was that it hopped all the way out of the cage and out of the coop on one foot!?!? Which is 10 feet give or take, and down the chicken ramp!!

 

[duluthralphie]

Morning.

Sorry about the chick Layers.

Animals are better equipped to deal with a physical injury than humans, they do not remember what was, or feel sorry for themselves, they just go on with life with what is. Especially prey animals that know instinctively showing an injury or weakness is a sure way to get picked off by a predator.

Speaking of illness or physical injury, sorry you're under the weather BC. Might I suggest a day of blackberries in the form of brandy interspersed with peppermint schnapps on ice?

Ivie May the funeral go as well as they can. Condolences.


Erli, I loved the early snarkiness! "remove its head"!

I pulled what I think is a hen from the rooster pen. 3 eggs in 3 days tells me I made a minor error in identifying roosters. It is a EE/PC cross, what a bird. It is larger than a PC with a lot of the same coloring but a black hen. A beautiful bird. Because of her size I thought she was a rooster, but her body type looks henlike. I will get pictures of her after she lays and egg and I know she is a she. Her eggs are extra large and olive green. When I crossed her mother to ED I wanted green eggs, so I am happy. If it is a her.

I have a couple others in there that could be hens. Some breeds are so hard to tell hens from roos. I find the BA hard to tell apart too.

I have a trap out, I have been wanting to check, but I am forcing myself to stay in the house for another hour to give the critter a chance to get caught if it is a morning feeder. I am sure my "bait" is wanting me to get him out of there soon. I found a way to use a bait bird and keep it safe. I attached a milk case to the end of a livetrap with HUGE cable ties, locking the "bait " safely inside the case. I know it sounds cruel and maybe, but it is a rooster I would have had to cull if I did not use it this way. I cannot keep it in the birds it's age pen, as it beats the crap out of the other birds. I tried to put it in the young rooster open and they beat the crap out of it.

It has not learned to be humble. If the other birds stop picking on it, it turns and attacks the others, 2-3 at a time. We thought about eating it but there is no meat on it as it is a teenager. So it has become "the goat" in the lion hunts you see on TV. (Ok judge me now)

Time to see what else is new on BYC.. back in a few.

 

[Cebarmlds]

So it's still living. Don't know how, you think it would be so traumatized!
Its leg is pretty much gone, it's just hanging there. So I can't do anything til I get home after volleyball practice. The weirdest thing was that it hopped all the way out of the cage and out of the coop on one foot!?!? Which is 10 feet give or take, and down the chicken ramp!!

I Love Layers I am sorry if I was snarky as ralphy put it. I don't like animals to suffer, I don't like to remove their heads either but will if the bird is sick or injured badly.