Update on Greenie:
That little bare spot on her head is all grown in now. This eye is the good side. The other eye is gone. This pic was several weeks ago.
This is her little pen looking from inside the regular run. We're building on to the coop on the right and also, I pressure washed it and it's now a nice wood color, not black!
It’s been awhile since I wrote about Greenie, our little green-egg layer. She is still in her own pen, but with only chicken wire between the regular run and her pen. I discarded her little jail-like pen!
She stays in this 6 x 6 area, and sometimes I take her into the big run with the rest of the chickens and, believe it or not, with Mr. Roo, who attacked her to what I thought would be her death. Now, he pretty much leaves her alone, but of course, I’m right there in the run with her. He is scared of me. All I have to do is point at him and he has a fit. I’m really not sure how he got so scared of me, but I don’t consider it a bad thing. I’m boss, not him!
Greenie, with the use of her one eye, has a few balance problems, but she is overcoming them. She doesn’t fly high like she used to and when she jumps off anything more than a few inches off the ground, she acts like she’s jumping from a great distance; takes her time, looks around, backs up, looks again, strains her neck out and looks at the ground. She just can’t judge it anymore. Her feathers grew back in nicely on her head.
I don’t think she’ll ever be able to go back to the flock and stay there by herself.
Sometimes, while we’re paying a visit, the other hens come around and might give her a peck (normal behavior) and she panics. She runs, flies to the top of the feeder (which is a great feat for her even though the top is only 2 feet off the ground). One time, she flew to my shoulder and I couldn’t get her off! So she does remember that I am her safety net.
Several times, she has pecked at the other hens as well; they, of course, do not like this one bit! Then the squabble starts. I even tried putting one of the more docile hens into her little run with her, but she didn’t like her space invaded and pecked at the intruder. Ah… what to do?
She is sleeping outside right now; in this area she calls her own, as it’s still warm here. She has her own roost and nesting box in there as well. Not sure what we’re going to do about winter. Right now her area is covered with plastic so her feed and roost stay dry.
She is not as friendly to me as she had once become, but neither is she totally afraid of me, as you can see from the note above when we’re in the big run. I’ve let her out to free-range while I’m out there and she is fairly easy to catch. When I come close, she squats and flares her wings out. She pretty much stays near me. Loves this time of freedom!
I’m glad she came out as well as she did. I am rather afraid of putting her back in with the others on her own. Not sure what Mr. Roo will do if I’m not in there. Don’t want her to be attacked again. Not sure either of us would recover!
That little bare spot on her head is all grown in now. This eye is the good side. The other eye is gone. This pic was several weeks ago.
This is her little pen looking from inside the regular run. We're building on to the coop on the right and also, I pressure washed it and it's now a nice wood color, not black!
It’s been awhile since I wrote about Greenie, our little green-egg layer. She is still in her own pen, but with only chicken wire between the regular run and her pen. I discarded her little jail-like pen!
Greenie, with the use of her one eye, has a few balance problems, but she is overcoming them. She doesn’t fly high like she used to and when she jumps off anything more than a few inches off the ground, she acts like she’s jumping from a great distance; takes her time, looks around, backs up, looks again, strains her neck out and looks at the ground. She just can’t judge it anymore. Her feathers grew back in nicely on her head.
I don’t think she’ll ever be able to go back to the flock and stay there by herself.
Several times, she has pecked at the other hens as well; they, of course, do not like this one bit! Then the squabble starts. I even tried putting one of the more docile hens into her little run with her, but she didn’t like her space invaded and pecked at the intruder. Ah… what to do?
She is sleeping outside right now; in this area she calls her own, as it’s still warm here. She has her own roost and nesting box in there as well. Not sure what we’re going to do about winter. Right now her area is covered with plastic so her feed and roost stay dry.
She is not as friendly to me as she had once become, but neither is she totally afraid of me, as you can see from the note above when we’re in the big run. I’ve let her out to free-range while I’m out there and she is fairly easy to catch. When I come close, she squats and flares her wings out. She pretty much stays near me. Loves this time of freedom!
I’m glad she came out as well as she did. I am rather afraid of putting her back in with the others on her own. Not sure what Mr. Roo will do if I’m not in there. Don’t want her to be attacked again. Not sure either of us would recover!
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