The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: dixie on April 27, 2012, 02:09:54 pm
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Came home yesterday to find the hay rack feeder in the field had blown over ( really strong winds, it's never happened before) I decided to leave it as it was still windy, went out this morning, picked it up to find a dead hen and an injured one, think its got a damaged wing and is wonky, poor thing was trapped there all night, wish I'd gone in yesterday :(
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Sorry dixie, but you werent to know. Hope it recovers. :bouquet:
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One of those things you werent to know, i'm sure we have all done similar things in the past.
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Similar thing happened to a lamb 2 years ago, and I washing machined a kitten, I'm never going to heaven am i ::)
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Dixie,
How did you manage to wash a kitten in the machine?
Sally
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It was a few years ago, our cat had kittens and we kept them in the utility room until they were ready for new homes, I loaded some sheets into the washing machine and the kittens kept pouncing and hanging on, i pulled them off and quickly the door, did a head count, convinced they were all there and did the washing, i was horrified when I unloaded and found the kitten, it really upset me, I couldn't eat or sleep for days :(
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Thats awful. I d have nightmares. :o
Last year we hatched a lot of quail. The chicks are so tiny and very fast. My hubbie fed and watered them one evening and returned to the house. Daughter went to have a look at them and couldnt see one of the white ones ....she only had 3 white and she is eagle eyed and spots everything. She said she heard what she thought was distressed cheeping and couldnt see where it was coming from. Lifted the water hopper and trapped underneath was the quail! How lucky she went out. Men ::)
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Hi Dixie, sods law really, but if she doesn't look in any pain just leave her. It may get better on its own of course. She may be a bit put out after all she has had a shock which could go either way really. I'd be inclined to give her a bit of TLC and play it by ear. A nice bowl of well buttered cous cous is good at mending ;)
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In the hills, I did exactly the same thing last summer, only didn't find the poor chick until next day :'( As my Dad used to say, if foresight were as good as hindsight the world would be a happy place.
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Dixie - don't beat yourself up. When our turkey shed blew over in the storm just before Christmas, I immediately righted it again, and went looking for materials to tie it down properly. By the time I got back, it had blown over for a second time, trapping a turkey underneath (thankfully not hurt), and completely disintegrating in the process.
All I'm trying to say is what would have been the right action for you also turned out to be the wrong action for me, and how are we to know that at the time of the actual incident? Hope the injured hen is doing ok though ???.
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Thanks all, good news the hen is on the mend, still wonky and shuffling but is eating and drinking and much brighter, so hopefully she'll make it :thumbsup:
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Good! .... and so will you :-*
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We've got several small coops for our chooks. I can count on one hand only, but still feel bad being able to do that, over the years the amount of times myself or OH has forgotten to open up one of them and they've been stuck in ALL day. Once, for one coop, it was a really HOT day. Gawd we felt awful. We just cock up sometimes. I've had a hen stuck under a bucket most of the day before now too. But 99% of the time we all give our best degree of care and that's all we can do. Humans unfortunately error from time to time. Self beating doesn't make a difference to what happened. Just got to try to avoid doing the same again.
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Things like this happen to all of us, as you can see.
One windy day, the lid blew off the chicken run, and it was sods law one of the bantams must have been walking past or sitting alongside, and it fell on her and trapped her. I found her dead that night. Then I have had numerous hens tip buckets up on themselves. Have found them dripping in sweat,but one was not furtunate and suffocated before I found her. Then I had one climb in a horse feed sack, which was empty, and get trapped. Think she was there a coupld of very hot days until I saw the sack moving .....she jumped out and ran for a drink!!
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Last week the cat :cat:dived under the ground floor floorboards while the plumber was trying to fit a new shower tray. :oIf he had not seen Mac go into the hole.... Cat resurfaced 6 hours later having spent the day in the footings of the house. ??? A lucky escape - this time :wave: