Rural Gardening: I made a chicken coat because of a rescue., 1 by DrDoolotz

DrDoolotz wrote:
OK, thank you for all this help - I do believe you are right and it must be a turken. This group of birds is a bit odd. A crele rooster, a turken, what next? There is only one like that so I guess it is the only turken. She still needs some feathers to grow back in some places, and she is the one now wearing the purple coat.

I don't think it was dog fighting related. The dogs were English Bulldogs. I posted here a picture of an English Bulldog. Different from a pit bull. I got the picture from this site http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/bulldog.htm (for the credit of the copyright)!

She said that they breed English bulldogs for sale and that they are very high quality dogs. I have no idea since I couldn't tell you a quality bulldog from a hole in the wall! I only really know about greyhounds. But they seemed to look good. No evidence of fighting with the dogs - just the fact that there were so many of them and all chained to different trees - I didn't like it. But, I don't *think* the dogs were being abused. They didn't look skinny or neglected like the chickens. She said they were building a new kennel building for their breeding operation but I couldn't see any new buildings started. I didn't really ask.

I couldn't believe that somebody would leave a child with ADD in charge of chickens like that, especially a 7 year old. It is part of their condition that they will not always focus on what needs to be done, I would think, so she should have been checking up on them. At least that seems sensible to me.

I will have to make coats for about half of them I think, and focus on their feet, but otherwise they are doing well today.