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Post by samwiseg on Mar 16, 2015 8:27:56 GMT
Oh 'common Hezz you sure you are not even tempted...just a bit?
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Post by milliej on Mar 16, 2015 17:10:32 GMT
Oh bless how sweet, she laid an egg so must feel quite at home (unless they lay eggs at random! ) still hoping for a good outcome all round here! Enjoy the egg
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Post by Hezz on Mar 17, 2015 0:14:32 GMT
Still not found her owner(s). I don't feel she can be too happy as she is, I don't see her move around very much, but then again the leg might be hurting as well.
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Post by Hezz on Mar 17, 2015 7:26:36 GMT
No, she is fine except for favouring her leg; up and about looking for things in the grass and eating some of the lawn grass as well. She didn't eat her veggies, though, tsk, tsk. Do chooks enjoy being stroked? This one doesn't object to anything I do with her. Not sure if that is a good or bad thing.
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Post by jellybean on Mar 17, 2015 8:47:49 GMT
What will you do if no one claims her Hezz.
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Post by Shirls on Mar 17, 2015 8:49:44 GMT
Some chooks like being stroked Hezz, it really depends on what they have been used to. Mine like grated carrot, shredded cabbage, grated swede and best of all sweetcorn whether it be on the cob or loose. I am ashamed to say also that mine like grapes, but they have to be quartered!!! Size is everything with my chooks, I think they must be lazy, liking all their food chopped up!!
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Post by Hezz on Mar 18, 2015 0:45:43 GMT
She seems more settled but more alert today, I am glad to say. She is the most obliging creature I have ever come across. All the times I have picked her up, she has only flapped once. I put her into her cardboard box while I moved the crate, and she just stood there, in the box, head poking out over the top. I did try to move her in the crate, but it has largish holes in the bottom, just a criss-cross of metal rods, about 14-15cms square, and she popped straight through them! How can a chook that big fit through a hole that small??? Then she simply stood there and waited until I picked her up and put her back into the crate. jellybean, a couple of people I talked to who already have chooks said they would take her if I didn't find her owner and didn't want to keep her. I will probably offer her to the vet's family first. His wife is also an vet, so feel she couldn't really be in better hands. I would keep her if I had anything like somewhere permanent for her, and of course that would mean a friend or two, but we do have some big snakes come through, and goannas, so the enclosure would have to be very sturdy. Poor Tookie. Is a week too long without companions? She did have about six scrub turkeys visiting her yesterday ......... I was imaging how that conversation would go.
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Post by Shirls on Mar 18, 2015 8:19:58 GMT
That IS brilliant news Hezz. When you pick her up try and hold her wings down at he same time, by cupping your hands round them and her. May be a bit tricky I know, depends on the size of the bird. Fortunately my two have small wings which are positioned quite high up, so its not too much of a problem for me. Are you getting an egg every day now? You should be. Make sure she has some grit.
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Post by samwiseg on Mar 18, 2015 8:33:08 GMT
This IS fantastic news Hezz! It seems like we are all pretty much good samaritans on the forum so perhaps we should all be named our name and then have Post Nominal letters of FoA.....Francis of Assisi
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Post by Hezz on Mar 19, 2015 0:49:59 GMT
It is a long time since I have had to pick up a chook, but the ones I picked up then could certainly have learned some manners from my girl; she is so good. Only the one egg so far, but we must remember that she has had a bad experience, and is possibly not getting everything she needs to produce eggs. She can peck and scratch at the dirt/lawn through the bottom of the crate. I would love to let her out and probably she wouldn't go far, but would need to stay with her to be sure she didn't have another nasty dog experience. Mac is sulking about his crate going to another animal, and ripping all the stuffing out of his cushion, or is that just coincidence ....... who can tell. The best thing I saw this morning was her standing with all her weight on the one leg that has caused her to limp, so hopefully it is feeling better with the enforced rest. Eeeek! We, Tookie and I just had a big nasty taloned visitor!!! Looked to me like a grey goshawk: www.google.com.au/search?q=grey+goshawk&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=QBwKVYXCPNbh8AWjqoGoDg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=633 A very beautiful creature, to be sure, but lordy, it certainly got Tookie talking! Poor girl, even the raptors want to make minced meat out of her!!!! I have to go and fill her seed up again now; she tipped it over in the scuffle. Lucky she wasn't out wandering around!
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Post by OP on Mar 19, 2015 7:17:21 GMT
Crikey, you know how to bring the wildlife to your place. Have you decided what to do yet? It appears that the real owner is not coming to see you.
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Post by Shirls on Mar 19, 2015 7:56:10 GMT
OMG!!! Scarey for Tookie and you. Tookie needs grit and calcium to make eggs. But then they don't lay every single day, so she may have decided to have a couple of days off!! I echo what OP has said: have you made any decisions yet Hezz?
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Post by samwiseg on Mar 19, 2015 8:27:23 GMT
Eeek! A bloody goshawk is NOT to be sneezed at! thank god you were there Hezz and nothing untoward happened - a loss of corn/food is a minor price to pay dont you think?
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Post by starlingqueen on Mar 19, 2015 11:44:12 GMT
If she's from a big flock the chances are the owner hasn't noticed they've lost one. She may not lay any more eggs for a while due to the stress. The first egg was already made before the "incident". My chook laid an egg the day after she was attacked and badly injure by a fox.
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Post by milliej on Mar 19, 2015 16:30:30 GMT
I noticed in Hezz's last post that she mentioned "It is a long time since I have had to pick up a chook, but the ones I picked up then could certainly have learned some manners from my girl; she is so good. ? I've had a sparrow hawk or was it a Merlin ...in our tiny back garden, s/he got a sparrow and ate it right in front of the window.....honestly the cheek, mind I suppose it must have been hungry?!
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