So if you have followed the previous updates, the family has bern leaving pretty well together. They sleep in a big bunch at night still. They seem to have bonded as 3 couples.
Every now and again they do run around like headless chickens, with one or two males very obviously making their intentions known.... ?
Sometimes they do fly up the cage, spooked by something, although we don't always know what.
Until Saturday morning when we noticed Charley was staying very quietly alone in one of the little huts. He wasn't spooked when we tried to take the eggs out of the hut. My daughter managed to pick him up gently without any problem (which was strange!) And that's when we realised he was injured. He had a lot of blood on his head mainly and a little near one eye.
Straight away we took him out and got a separate enclosure ready for him, with food and water. We tried to clean his wound up as well. He was very cooperative, didn't struggle much. He mainly stayed in one place. We have left him to recover a little, before cleaning him up a little more. He wasn't opening his eyes, and we thought probably because of dried blood.
This morning he is looking much better, grooming, eating, drinking, and walking around. He's even crowed a couple times when he heard the others.
He's still not opening both eyes yet though.
I don't know how he got injured. I haven't seen the others peck each other or fight. So I don't know if it's what happened or if he's banged his head on something whilst flying up the cage...
Anyway, I am not sure what to do now. Should I wait a little longer and put him back with the others? Should I take the young boys out first, just in case? Only one of the young ones actually crows at the moment, Howard.
I don't really want to keep Charley away from Martha too long. What would you do?
Every now and again they do run around like headless chickens, with one or two males very obviously making their intentions known.... ?
Sometimes they do fly up the cage, spooked by something, although we don't always know what.
Until Saturday morning when we noticed Charley was staying very quietly alone in one of the little huts. He wasn't spooked when we tried to take the eggs out of the hut. My daughter managed to pick him up gently without any problem (which was strange!) And that's when we realised he was injured. He had a lot of blood on his head mainly and a little near one eye.
Straight away we took him out and got a separate enclosure ready for him, with food and water. We tried to clean his wound up as well. He was very cooperative, didn't struggle much. He mainly stayed in one place. We have left him to recover a little, before cleaning him up a little more. He wasn't opening his eyes, and we thought probably because of dried blood.
This morning he is looking much better, grooming, eating, drinking, and walking around. He's even crowed a couple times when he heard the others.
He's still not opening both eyes yet though.
I don't know how he got injured. I haven't seen the others peck each other or fight. So I don't know if it's what happened or if he's banged his head on something whilst flying up the cage...
Anyway, I am not sure what to do now. Should I wait a little longer and put him back with the others? Should I take the young boys out first, just in case? Only one of the young ones actually crows at the moment, Howard.
I don't really want to keep Charley away from Martha too long. What would you do?