Pygmy Indian Chickens

I bet you thought I was talking about a new breed of chicken.

I'm not.  

While I was away, 

3 of my new pullets came under attack.  

The 2 Wyandottes were kidnapped

and the Cuckoo Maran was scalped

by savages.

Ok, so really the Wyandottes were taken by a hawk or fox

and the Cuckoo Maran was pecked by her coop mates.

She's currently rehabbing in the chicken hospital in my laundry room.

I didn't expect her to make it through the first night since she was pecked down to her skull,

but there she is, chillin' and eating and drinking and enjoying life.

With the General Population

This past Friday I moved Henny Penny into the Chicken Coop

but kept her segregated from the other chickens.

The chickens could see each other through the wire,

but they couldn't get to each other.

Last night I went ahead and removed the partition.

I moved around some things to give Penny some places to get away from the bigger hens.

I left the cat carrier in there so she has a good hiding place,

and I added the hanging cabbage that is supposed to help distract the chickens.

It doesn't really do anything so far.

Penny is the only one I've seen pecking at it.

She wasn't very happy with me releasing her into the general population.

She's the new girl on the block so she has to go through the whole

pecking order crap. 

I checked on her last night and this morning.

She slept in the coop

but was more skittish this morning about being with everyone.

Hopefully she'll be okay this time.

Chicken Hospital

Henny Penny is back at the "chicken hospital"

in my hallway.

My mom called me Wednesday evening to say she was pretty sure

one of the new pullets had been pecked.

So I rushed over to assess the damage.

Penny was up and moving around, 

but a large area of her back end was bleeding

and she was missing quite a few feathers.

I also notice that she had her right eye half closed.

I wasn't really sure she would even make it.

 Yesterday she was up and around and eating and drinking normally.

Her eye is still closed

but she felt good enough to hop out of the cage and follow me to the kitchen

as I filled her water.

I think if we can keep her wounds from becoming infected,

she'll be okay. 

She's getting a small amount of aspirin in her water for pain, 

and I'm applying triple antibiotic ointment to her wounds to keep

the wound moist and hopefully prevent infection.