meet stumpy
Sep. 1st, 2008 12:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kirkcudbrightThis is Stumpy, who could have been named the Pobble (but wasn't). In fact, the Nevins Farm staff inexplicably named her Fluffy, but we were having none of that.
Before she came to Nevins, she had been bullied by the other chickens in her pen (likely overcrowded, but that's just my guess). They hadn't let her eat, so she was scary skinny; they had pecked the feathers off her head; and she had a raging case of scaly leg mites (probably they all had it, but it affected her more in her weakened condition), the worst the staff had seen (and they deal with rescue/surrender animals all the time), so bad it had affected blood flow to her toes. When I first met this hen, she had only 3 toes total (there are usually 4 on each foot). By the time I took her home, they had all necrotised, and only one was still attached. That one fell off a few days after we brought her home.
Her head feathers are growing back, and she's getting around just fine. She roosts on the 2"x3" perch. But she hasn't really integrated into the flock - she lets them push her around, and she voluntarily goes back in the coop when the others are out in the back yard.
Before she came to Nevins, she had been bullied by the other chickens in her pen (likely overcrowded, but that's just my guess). They hadn't let her eat, so she was scary skinny; they had pecked the feathers off her head; and she had a raging case of scaly leg mites (probably they all had it, but it affected her more in her weakened condition), the worst the staff had seen (and they deal with rescue/surrender animals all the time), so bad it had affected blood flow to her toes. When I first met this hen, she had only 3 toes total (there are usually 4 on each foot). By the time I took her home, they had all necrotised, and only one was still attached. That one fell off a few days after we brought her home.
Her head feathers are growing back, and she's getting around just fine. She roosts on the 2"x3" perch. But she hasn't really integrated into the flock - she lets them push her around, and she voluntarily goes back in the coop when the others are out in the back yard.
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Date: 2008-09-01 04:36 am (UTC)now, i feel a twinge if i eat chicken fingers from now on :)
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Date: 2008-09-01 05:03 am (UTC)Chicken fingers no problem here (no chicken hands that I can see). But worry about chickens with opposable thumbs - worse than racoons.
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Date: 2008-09-01 02:44 pm (UTC)and what of the plight of the buffalo wings? and all those other nuggets? :>
ferrets and their kin have what amount to opposable thumbs as well, i imagine chicken coops need real locks or something, not just latches. next thing you know, they'll make lockpicks...
stumpy needs a theme song :)
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Date: 2008-09-01 12:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-01 02:29 pm (UTC)