"they'll be ok for 2 seconds"

[wood&feathers]

Hooray for happy endings!

She'll be saving that secret spot for when she starts laying...

 

[Player Hater]

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yeah, it's tempting to get militant, especially with all these guns lying around

the truth is, it's my fault, not the darn cat's

i left them for a new york minute in an unsecured run in a neighborhood crawling with cats

 

[Connorrm]

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Yay! Glad that you managed to find her!

 

[mywifewasonherenowiamalso]

i wouldnt hesitate, around here you call animal control and they tell you to kill it

 

[drumstick diva]

As long as it scabbed over and you don't see redness or swelling, or any drainage, I would leave it alone.

 

[Player Hater]

because of the post times it looks like we found her after ten minutes, but she was missing for hours

i felt awful

 

[smurray]

I think cuts and scrapes heal faster when they're moist with neosporin than when they're scabbed over- something about letting the skin's repair cells do their job better. I usually dab some neosporin on top of the scab if one forms, and it softens up.

Glad you found your fourth! I had a similar (but less frightening) experience when my 8 chicks were about that old- they were out in a little pen in the lawn and i was holding the dog and trying to train her to relax around the chickens. Then my cat jumps over the fence (i had forgotten about her!) and stalks toward the pen. I can't let the dog go, so i drag the dog along as i yell at the cat, which scares the cat away but also sends 5 of the chicks flying out of the pen into the open yard! aaah! managed to get the cat in a head lock and shove both animals inside, then ran around collecting all of the scared chicks. oofda.

 

[Player Hater]

took the birds outside again today while i worked on the run some more, laying loose poultry netting over any gaps so nothing could get in, and keeping them under guard

the two slightly older, more feathered-out birds are laced wyndottes, i could tell them apart as chicks but i can't any more; Petunia and Baby; they belong to my wife and daughters

the white orpington is mine, she was the one caught in the fence; her name's Beautiful

the black austrolorp is Luna, my son's bird, who was the one missing and presumed dead

she always sticks her head WAY UP like that to look around, it's really funny

periscope neck



they were nervous at first, but after a while they started poking around and eating bugs like usual

didn't see any cats

 

[Rockin' Reds]

Sweet little flock you have there, and they look great for what they went through!! I'm so glad everything turned out okay!

 

[Player Hater]

my patchwork hell of a run is coming slowly along

soon i'll be able to leave them outside unattended for a minute