Update: HAPPY ENDING! - Friday 13th - One dead, one injured.

[Wolfpacker]

GREAT!

Thanks so much for the picture. That looks about right. Mine will be 9 weeks old this Sunday. I just can't believe those RIRs on that other thread are only 8 1/2 weeks. They look so mature.

Chicken Matthews returns to the vet at 11:30 today. Look for an update.

 

[chicks rule]

I am so happy that your chick is doing so well, what an experience. As far as a name for her, How about "Lefty" or "Stubby" obvious names, huh

 

[Wolfpacker]

I like "lefty." A friend suggested that this morning. I also like "Chicken Matthews," which is how they've labeled her medical records and Rxs and what we've been calling her.
We'll see.

If anyone had ever told me one year ago I'd be talking about naming a chicken whose wing I'd had amputated I would have told them they were crazy.

 

[eggcetra_farms]

Poor wolf, you have the fever!

As for Lefty.....If you name her that, in my opinion, you'll need a Pancho to go with her. You just can't have Lefty without Pancho!

I hope the vet visit goes well, although I'm sure it will.

 

[chicks rule]

Yep chick fever for sure,

We started with two from my grandsons school and now have 26, only one has been named and my grandson called her Alexis??? Don't know where that one came from, she is a Barred Rock, oh I did rescue a Banty Roo from the animal shelter, named him Rusty, partly because of his coloring, but mainly after Rusty Wallace,

 

[Wolfpacker]

Chicken Matthews/Lefty received a clean bill of health. The site of the amputation is healing nicely. She's gaining weight and feeling better. She actually jumped off the vet's little scale onto the top of the cat carrier in which she arrived.

She returns for a follow-up in one week.

The vet hypothesized a raccoon grabbed her through the fence and the other chicken simply died of fright as this one screamed. Apparently that's not that uncommon for birds at this age. I think somebody in one of the many posts above already made that conjecture, so now it's confirmed.

I've put my small tractor inside the main coop and until these birds get older, they'll stay in there during the day when I'm not home. That way, nothing can reach through and grab them.

 

[eggcetra_farms]

That's great wolf. Glad everything checked out ok.

 

[hollyclyff]

Glad to hear all went well. I bet she becomes a pretty spoiled pet after all this.

 

[Trish]

Wolfpacker: Maggots are creepy, but beneficial. They only eat decaying flesh, not healthy flesh. They are actually used in medicine to cleanse wounds that cannot otherwise be healed, such as in diabetes. So don't worry about those little buggers, they are there to help. Trish

 

[Wolfpacker]

I am typing this with one hand because Chiken Matthews is sitting on my other one. She's been hanging out with me in my office for about an hour. My wife thinks I"ve lost it.