chickenlittle21
There's a piggy in the pasture
I got Lucky from tractor supply as a less than a week old red sex link chick. I held her alot, she especially liked to perch on my shoulder.
When she was a little older (8- 10 weeks) we had are first ever predator attack and Lucky's eye was injured
I put her in a cage on my front porch and put some unmedicated eye wash in her eye. She stayed in the cage overnight and then was returned back to coop #2 in the morning. Lucky wasn't accepted back into the pecking order so she stayed by the ducks pool (i had 2 ducks at the time) that was in the corner of the coop.
When Lucky was around 12 weeks old she started opening her injured eye and it was obvious she couldn't see out of it
Soon after that my dad built a more secure, predator proof coop (coop #3) and moved all the chickens (not the ducks, though) including Lucky into it. In coop #3 Lucky would perch all day and wouldn't come down (by then she was scared of most chickens) so I moved her back to coop #2 with the ducks but by then we had 5 ducks one which was a 5 month old drake who would mate with her every time she came down off the top of the brooders in there. Then I moved her to coop #1 which almost everyone in there was nice to her but she was scared of everyone in there and a hen ended up attacking her so I moved her back to coop #2.
Now Lucky is around 18 weeks old and my dad recently built a big brooder (brooder 3) in coop #1 and Lucky is in there amongst 14 6-8 week old chicks and she is finally happy.
If I had to use 4 words to describe Lucky, the words i would use are sweet, friendly, delicate, and nervous but she is truly much more than 4 words can describe for she is my favorite chicken and always will be.
When she was a little older (8- 10 weeks) we had are first ever predator attack and Lucky's eye was injured
I put her in a cage on my front porch and put some unmedicated eye wash in her eye. She stayed in the cage overnight and then was returned back to coop #2 in the morning. Lucky wasn't accepted back into the pecking order so she stayed by the ducks pool (i had 2 ducks at the time) that was in the corner of the coop.
When Lucky was around 12 weeks old she started opening her injured eye and it was obvious she couldn't see out of it
Soon after that my dad built a more secure, predator proof coop (coop #3) and moved all the chickens (not the ducks, though) including Lucky into it. In coop #3 Lucky would perch all day and wouldn't come down (by then she was scared of most chickens) so I moved her back to coop #2 with the ducks but by then we had 5 ducks one which was a 5 month old drake who would mate with her every time she came down off the top of the brooders in there. Then I moved her to coop #1 which almost everyone in there was nice to her but she was scared of everyone in there and a hen ended up attacking her so I moved her back to coop #2.
Now Lucky is around 18 weeks old and my dad recently built a big brooder (brooder 3) in coop #1 and Lucky is in there amongst 14 6-8 week old chicks and she is finally happy.
If I had to use 4 words to describe Lucky, the words i would use are sweet, friendly, delicate, and nervous but she is truly much more than 4 words can describe for she is my favorite chicken and always will be.
