We were contacted by a friend who knew of a Standard Bronze Tom who needed a new home. The people who had him were not able to feed all the animals they had and were trying to find new homes for them. Our dear friend, Alena and Jack, made the trip to rescue our new buddy! We owe them a huge thank you for the wrangling, capture and transport of our new tom.They said he ate a huge amount when they finally got him in a cage. Poor guy was starving :-(
He arrived at The Old Five Notch Farm on Saturday. He was scared and stressed, but when Scott pulled up in the yard he heard the girls and immediately started gobbling and getting really excited. We had to cover his cage to keep him from hurting himself while we prepared his enclosure.
We were fortunate to have sweet neighbors, Daisy, and her son Craig, who allowed us to borrow a large dog kennel that we were able to move to our farm and prepare for our new addition. So thankful for helpful neighbors!
God bless my sweet farmer man...he and Craig spent most of the day moving, setting back up and securing an enclosure for our new guy. Late afternoon we were able to move our new guy into his enclosure. We are keeping him in quarantine for a couple of weeks to be sure he is healthy and not carrying any diseases or illnesses.
Here's our new guy! His name is "Tiny Tim" <3 aka "Timmy". His named such because he is so little compared to our sweet "Tommy" AND he has a gimpy leg...just like Tiny Tim from The Christmas Carol <3
We also have learned that "Timmy" has a leg injury. We hope that it will improve with time, but when the previous owners were contacted they said he has walked with a limp since they got him in August :-( It appears that he has torn ligaments in his knee. We will give him a few days to settle in and then catch him and see if we can diagnose it further. I'm not sure there is much we can do since it is an old injury, but we will be monitoring him and taking him to the vets if needed.
"Timmy" didn't waste anytime showing off for the girls!
He is wearing a path across the front of his enclosure walking back and forth trying to get to the girls. We will wait the quarantine time out and then introduce him to the girls. We hope that everyone will get along and the girls will show "Timmy" that people are ok and to be trusted.
Keep "Timmy" in thoughts and prayers as we help him learn people are ok and we work on his injured leg.
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