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Chicken Guys, I Could Use Some Help

Grnd93

Grnd93

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We have a chicken that has decided to join our flock. No idea where she came from, but for the last few months she has been hanging out with our birds, eating our food etc.

For awhile we thought she went home at night until I spotted her flying up into the big pine next to my driveway. She roosts every night about 15’ up.

Trying to come up with a way to get her sleeping in the henhouse. There is plenty of space, and since she is making herself at home we might as well go all the way.

She is still wary of people and won’t let us got close enough to catch her. I have a live trap with some suet, but so far she ignores it.

I thought about a ladder up to the branch she’s on, but it’s pretty flimsy and there doesn’t appear to be anything more sturdy that would get me within reach.

Anyone have any tips?

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I had a chicken live for a year like that. Super skiddish, run like the wind when you get 50’ from it. I let it go, who cares

You can easily grab a bird at night light that. They will not move.
 
Poke said:
I had a chicken live for a year like that. Super skiddish, run like the wind when you get 50’ from it. I let it go, who cares

You can easily grab a bird at night light that. They will not move.
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I’ll scout for a better place to put the ladder
 
I'm no chicken guy so I figured I'd ask. We don't get the super low temps so it never crossed my mind. Makes sense though.

Best of luck not freezing your dinner.
 
Get her checked out healthwise least she infect the rest of your flock.
 
You have to catch her when she is sleeping and put her in the hen house so she wakes up there. It will take a week or so for her to realize that is her home. I've done this quite a few times when moving hens from on coop to another.
 
Agree with PAE should check her over good first and a quarantine is best practice. If she's sharing food and drink its probably too late anyway, but a once over and mite check won't hurt.

Grab her at night and put her in the coop, may need to keep it closed for a day or two if it's large enough. Is the food in the coop?
 
Dethmachinefab said:
Agree with PAE should check her over good first and a quarantine is best practice. If she's sharing food and drink its probably too late anyway, but a once over and mite check won't hurt.

Grab her at night and put her in the coop, may need to keep it closed for a day or two if it's large enough. Is the food in the coop?
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Food is in the coop. She did go inside the henhouse a couple of days ago, but only briefly.
 
Poke said:
Funny. That was my suggestion but I never typed it. Even wild birds can be taken by hand at night. Grouse, etc are a walk up and pick up with no fight.
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Grouse sometimes dont even care in the daytime. Funny lil fuckers
 
She's in the deciding stage. On whether she wants to join your domestic harem. Free spirits and all.
Seriously, if she is diseased you all already fucked. So at this point leave her be and she'll join the flock in her on flocking time. As the temps go down she'll want the warm of companionship. If she doesn't then she's too stupid to live and you don't want her anyway.
 
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