Help - Just found a chicken!

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Just found a chicken roaming the streets where I live in South Manchester - Put it into my back yard because cars were almost running it over. Ive left a message with RSPCA.

 
Snap it's neck and eat it.

that's a good few £ you just saved there.

I'm not sure if I hope you did or didn't look at the posters name before hitting reply here but good work on the comedy front anyway.

Vegetarian, I'm not sure if the RSPCA will be all that interested but they are a good first point of contact, do you have any farms nearby that might be willing to take it?
 
Have a look on the Practical Poultry web site forum and see if there is anyone in your area who might be able to help. The owner may have even posted on there or there may be someone who can come over and pick it up.

http://www.kelseyinfo.co.uk/yabb/YaBB.pl

The chicken should really be at home by now, roosting, so if you can keep it calm in a cardboard box, somewhere quiet, it will probably just go to sleep. I don't suppose that you can make a roost for it anywhere? It would need to be a thick piece of wood (not round) or similar that it could perch on for the night. It would also prefer the dark.

It will get up early, so be prepared for an early start. If you feel the need to feed it, a little sweetcorn, or a little cooked pasta would do in an emergency.
 
Um if its running loose in your garden, watch out for cats and foxes. Next door to me had chickens, and theyve been killed twice, once by foxes and another in the middle of the day by a gert big cat.
 
take good care of it until the rspca arrive

i recommend keeping it in a nice warm oven for 2.5hrs on gas mark 5 :)
 
Um if its running loose in your garden, watch out for cats and foxes. Next door to me had chickens, and theyve been killed twice, once by foxes and another in the middle of the day by a gert big cat.

Wait.. A chicken died twice!? :eek:
 
Just another thought. Do you have an outdoor table or similar that you could cover up? If you have, then you could make a low roost for the chicken under the table and then cover it with a cloth or old sheet / blanket for the night. If it is on grass, then even better. If you still have the chicken in the morning, it will eat practically everything green, so you may lose any plants in your garden. If you have any old lettuce knocking around, she will love this, and you may be rewarded with an egg.

BTW, what colour is she and does she have a large red comb on her head?

Sorry, have had a problem getting youtube to load, and have just seen it. As her comb appears to be very small, she may be very young still and may be new to her home which is why she has gone walkabout. Keep her away from that rubbish as she will peck at that. Try to make her a 'home' for the night as I described earlier, but she is probably too young to lay.
 
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