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| Jane,the little Araucana with Phyllis hiding away inside the broodybox |
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The victims of sustained and at time violent attacks react just like people can do when confronted with bigger and more aggressive individuals, they become shy, introverted and understandably depressed.creatures that hide away on the sidelines.Two of my hens have had a hard time recently. Phylis Diller , the odd looking frizzle poland bantam, with her nervy nature and odd looks has been battered to an inch of her life by a whole collection of different hens over the past few days. The attacks have reduced her to a bloody wreck
and it was heartbreaking to see this little pathetic scrap of a bird cowering underneath one of the hen house yesterday.
I caught her with my T shirt and cleaned her wounds with witchhazel and warm water, a procedure she sat through with rather moving stillness and then I placed her into her own run with another gentle little soul, a new araucana gray called Jane who arrived without tail feathers only a few days ago.
Immediately the two hens hid away inside their tiny coop, but did so calmly, sitting together side by side watching the field beyond their netting like two old ladies resting on a couple of beachfront deckchairs..
Just like people, all these little scraps of birds needed was to feel safe and secure.
Its not much to ask is it?
Even if you look like Phyllis Diller on crack
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