So I head a bit of banging and everything out side, I went to check it out. and Shelby (pup) had Balina (choock) =( I thought she was dead =*(. I quickly run out there and yell at him and she just got up and walked away!! I seriously have no idea how she survived it!! They both have free run of the back yard, so I knew one day it would come to this... but everything time I saw him try and get her she got away easily by just getting on higher ground. I msged DH and he goes, 'yea they do it all the time!' ( ) 'it is their game they play together, she plays dead and he caries her around' (
) I'm really not happy with this. it is cute they 'play' but one day he will get her in the wrong/right spot and =*( well yea...

we have got three dog run cages, one of which is cleared out and has Shelby's kennel etc in it, the other 2 are over grown cause we havent gotten int there to do it yet. and now its ****ing down raining and too wet for me to get out there and do it (one of the things I did have planned for the day). So I moved Shelby's kennel out of the cage (which he really wasn't happy about..) and put it near the house (where he sleeps anyway, and once he worked it out he was pretty chuffed his kennel was nearer the house). and I put her in the cage. =( she is no longer free range. (even though the cage is about 2m by 4m - that big enough for 1 chook??)

Now when I was putting her in there (she let me pick her up) she has blood, and feathers missing =( and bite marks...so he has gotten her. There was a fresh one, but there was also old bite marks. this is my next problem.. it was hard to tell, but what if they are infected? one of them was yellow... and i know in humans what infection looks like, is it the same for chooks? is there anything I can do for my girl????

please help, I know it was probably bad of me to keep them out together like that and I brought all this on myself, but she was so happy having free range of the yard... and for ages they showed no interest in eachother at all! I'm also a little ****ed that DH knew it had been going one for a few weeks and didn't do anything about it... (i work away from home so I'm never here).