So, if any pros out there can report... can a hen "come back" from a serious illness of heat? My hen does not seem able to control her movements. She's jerky. I had decided to 'let her go' but I keep reading and reading and it SEEMS that some take days to a week to recover, but they DO...
I am also wondering.. It is looking to me like this hen is permanently lame. Wondering if I should allow her to go on like this. If there is no hope of recovery I can't. The others were pecking her so I had removed her to inside my home, and was force feeding her some water and (raw cow's)...
Is it ok to go a bit 'off topic'? Edwina, I'm from NJ and was staying at Natural Bridge with my ten year old dd when that storm hit and power was lost. you are still without power??? wow. I have health issues, use a cane, and yet I had to carry all our luggage down a dark stairwell from the...
Hi, brand new here, and haven't even posted an intro yet, but that's what I came here for too. One of my hens was lying on her side inside the coop. We got her out, I bathed her, pouring some water over her and lifting her feathers a bit. Gave her some raw kefir to drink (dipped her beak into...