What to do with lonely Belgian Booted Bantam?!?!

[henry19952]

I had 2 mille fleur Belgian Booted bantam hens, and one was killed yesterday. So one is still in the pen by herself. I have another pen of 10 buff orpingtons.

Choice 1- Integrate them all. But will the BO's pick on her? And will she have no 'friends'? Oh, and the BO's are on grower feed, and the bantam is on layer pellets. What about food if I combined them?

Choice 2- Find a new home for the bantam.

Choice 3- Cornish hen for supper.

 

[Captain Carrot]

try and find a new home, or some new bantams.

and next time keep minimum of three birds together, that way you won't have this problem again.

 

[jerseygirl1]

Happned to me over the summer, had one roo and one hen, belgian quails, fox got the pullet and now the roo is lonely
I loved him, he was my favorite, but a friend of mine took him in and he's muchbetter off

 

[henry19952]

Quote:
I did!

I originally had 3 hens and a roo.

A couple months ago, a hen and the roo were killed.

Yesterday another hen was killed.

I am no longer letting my birds free range

 

[Captain Carrot]

that's sad. It's happened to me too, I lost more than 20 birds last year to a fox

Improved security hopefully it'll be ok this year