Bizarre but true!

[roxie]

For the last few weeks, one of my ducks and one of my chickens have been switching eggs and will not give them up. Even getting really violent about it. So I've left them alone, and just gathered the loose eggs.

Well, just now, I went out to close them up for the night, and the duck got up off her stack of eggs and I heard a chirping, and curiosity got the best of me, so I went and looked. And was/am totally amazed at what I found! It was a baby bird, but it wasn't a duck and it wasn't a chicken. It was a robin!

The duck is ignoring him, the chickens are kicking him around, so I brought him in the house and have put him into an aquarium with a heat lamp. I have no clue what to do now. Any ideas?

 

[H'venlee]

Call your local Humane Society. Most have a baby bird program where they raise them and then release them into the wild.
This is probably the best thing for the bird.

 

[roxie]

Call your local Humane Society. Most have a baby bird program where they raise them and then release them into the wild.
This is probably the best thing for the bird.

Well I know I can't keep him, I don't want to actually, and I think I will call them in the morning... thank you for reminding me about them!
Right now I am still just baffled! How did this happen? The only thing I can think of is that maybe there's a birds nest in the rafters of the chicken coop, but even then for an egg to fall that far, it would have broken for sure, it's an easy 10 foot drop!