Rural Gardening: Rehab CHicken, 1 by jylgaskin

jylgaskin wrote:
Normally, I rehabilitate wildlife, but tonight I got a call from some people who said they found a white bird under their deck. They thought it might be a chicken, but no one around them had chickens. I told them to bring it out and they arived with a cake box. In it was....a chicken. Anybody got ideas of what it is?

I was thinking it is some sort of young bantam hen. It's comb is single, but very small and tipped to one side. It's pure white, but quite dirty.It's tail stands upright like an A (from the back)

The only thing I can think of is that a hawk picked it up somewhere and dropped it in the sub division. It had a tiny wound on it's side and a scrape on it's head. It also panics whenever a shadow crosses over it. Otherwise it's fine. I figure that I'll wait till the silkies are asleep tonight and tuck it in with them. Hey, it worked with baby killdeers. I slipped them under my hen with her chicks and they stayed with her for several days.