Good Home For Chicken Needed

[TonyV]

Hi all, having lost 3 chickens to what i believe to be rats over the last week, only have one surviving, and she's looking a bit forlorn on her own, and as social animals looking to re home her. So if you are in the Leicester area and wish to add to your clan please get in touch. Probably can deliver locally.

[Tilly2]

Tony, it might be more successful if you put this on your local Facebook or Freecycle/Freegle.

[mallyh]

that's sad ,I never realised rats killed adult chickens I thought they went for eggs and babies .

[riptide]

Why not contact The British Hen Welfare Trust they might have some suggestions or be able to help.

[ladybirder]

TonyV, could you get someone to take the rats as well;-))

[TonyV]

mallyh I am told that rats will gang up on a single bird and torment it, a bit like a cat with a mouse. I have previously spotted a rat actually in the run. It had in come from neighbours wood pile. Put some baited poison down (covered to prevent anything else eating it) moved coup and run and thought all was well, sadly unfortunately not.
If there are no takers, I will donate her to our local farm animal sanctuary i.e. Red Gate farm for rehoming, don't want to give to somebody I don't know from adam.

[CluckyChick]

I had one hen on her own once, and she perked up about a week after her friend died. If you do decide to rehome her with an established flock, be very careful about gradual introductions. An established flock will often attack and even kill a lone newcomer. Hope you can sort something.

[TonyV]

ladybirder ~ rats are no more.

CluckyChick ~ plan is for her to go to a local farm animal rescue centre, where they have the expertise to reintroduce her to a flock again, or possibly start a new one with other solitary birds.

[Tilly2]

Good luck to your Little Chicken Licken!

[TonyV]

Tilly lol that's one thing she won't be.
But the colonel does make very nice finger licking food. But whether it does your colon any good is up for debate?

[ladybirder]

Tony all good then. Bless her I hope she'll be welcome and soon settled in her new home.
****dy rats, wherever there's food they are there. I've had to stop feeding my birds as we had rats and I got the blame:-(

[Tilly2]

Tony Chicken Licken was just a bit confused...not dead.

[Tilly2]

Here you go...

[retrocop]

Do you have a local Kentucky's ? I recall several months ago many branches closed down re supply problems.

[Zacs-Master]

Whatever you do, don’t slaughter it in your garden tho! Especially anywhere round a religious festival of any kind.

[TonyV]

ladybirder I bought some quite inexpensive rat poison bait boxes from a DIY shed, that only rodents can enter to eat the poison blocks. When I locate them, bit to dark to rummage in the shed at the moment, I will post details, as you should be able to eradicate the rats and continue to feed the birds.

[TonyV]

Lol Zacs, when I used to visit Bedford livestock auction (in the late 1980's) on a Saturday morning, a regular occurrence, was for people to buy live chickens, then slaughter them in the gutter.

[TonyV]

OK Tilly get it now

[ladybirder]

Tony rats eradicated by a professional at a cost! However, I live in a small block of rather nice flats with rather nice residents and if I put bird feeders up again, nice or not, they will Lynch me. I just can't do it.

[TonyV]

OK ladybirder, you have no options available to you then, shame, but in your situation I guess you have no choice.

[ladybirder]

Other than moving Tony I'm afraid not. It was one of my greatest pleasures as well, waiting to see what came to the feeder and then watching them feed.

Unfortunately where there's food there's rats.