How to raise Backyard Chickens: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Chipmunk Chick

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Re: [CHICKENS-101] Chipmunk Chick

I'm sorry, Di, I know the pain. I found the little body of one of my beautiful chicks today and it hurt a lot. It had become buried in the pen shavings when it was first killed. Life is sad sometimes.

I just came in from stringing rope in my big chicken yard and while I was out there, balancing on a ladder, a hawk or buzzard flew over. Trees are too thick to tell the difference. I have to put my boarding Silkies into a pen tonight. I've already lost one of her Dorkings!

Georgia

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--- On Wed, 6/1/11, DBauer7998@aol.com <DBauer7998@aol.com> wrote:

From: DBauer7998@aol.com <DBauer7998@aol.com>
Subject: [CHICKENS-101] Chipmunk Chick
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 9:34 PM

My poor little tiny chipmunk chick died last night. It was so much smaller than the others; I should have kept it quarantined in it's own brooder. Sigh.

The others are still feisty as all get out and don't seem to have any remose whatsoever. If I hadn't removed the little one, they probably would have eaten it. They are, after all, chickens.

Back to four - at least until I see if anything hatches out of the incubator...........

Di
Central Florida Zone 9a/b