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Urgent housing needed - for found bantam

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I have found a bantam and have no separate housing for it. I can't put her in with my girls - does anyone in the Sevenoaks, Kent area have a spare eglu, wooden housing or similar. I could borrow until my new secure run is ready where I could partition her a space.

Thanks in advance

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This one is really cute and was wandering around my friends garden, I'm not sure how well it has been cared for. It had large lumps of mud compacted in its feet feathers. I tried soaking it off but didn't want to spend too long with a distressed hen in the sink :shock: so I decided in the end to cut the lumps off - her feet were a bit sore underneath but I got most of the mud off so now she should be more comfortable. Her wing feathers aren't clipped. Should I clip them or wait for a day or so and see if she is claimed.

 

I have rigged up my VERY large dog crate with a hemcore base, a perch and a tarpaulin shelter. She was very hungry and thirsty and seemed pleased to be fed! I went out just now and she was perching and 'asleep'. How long do I need to keep her in quarantine away from the other hens and is there any chance of integrating her with them?

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I have found a bantam and have no separate housing for it. I can't put her in with my girls - does anyone in the Sevenoaks, Kent area have a spare eglu, wooden housing or similar. I could borrow until my new secure run is ready where I could partition her a space.

Thanks in advance

 

Ah, the perfect excuse to get another so that you are introducing 2 !!

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:lol: Have posted messages all over near us but we haven't heard any hens apart from another friends and mine in the area and we would have heard this one - now it's looking brighter, cleaner, calm and fed it is a ................cockerel :shock: Beautiful but not really what I was wanting. :lol: Now not sure what to do. Will probably try a local farm or hen place as it would be a waste to have it dispatched but I really don't want a cockerel, lovely though he is. At least his noise is smaller than a full size one would be .
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