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Getting their food on the ground is pretty "every day" for a chicken. They are used to foraging and scavenging for bugs and tasty greens in the dirt, under dead leaves...they're always scratching with their feet to unearth something new and tasty. Don't worry about them eating off the ground...

This is her foot today during bandage changing...still kinda puffy...did I not get enough?

Well, fingers crossed then I guess! *side note, Neosporins active ingredient is Bacitracin which should be just fine for dressing wounds in fowl.

This is Petrie. Petrie has had surgery before . My question is, I removed the icky scab mass from her foot, but it was bleeding pretty bad, so I couldn't see much else. I packed Neosporin onto a gauze pad and wrapped up her foot and called it good. Keeping her in the hospital box tonight, and...

X2 on everything said here, I lost my precious hen Daisy last year to egg yolk peritonitis...she had had problems with internal laying before, recovered, and then struggled again....and the second time, we had her put to sleep, we knew it was time, her abdomen was swollen with the infection, and...

Yeah maybe the respiratory infection...how much time does she spend indoors versus outside?

It's cert. organic seed.

Runny nose or cough? Can she stand? When did she last eat or drink? What does her poo look like? How old? Is she laying? Certainly keep her isolated....getting her to drink I would say is item one...

" Okay, Henrietta...YOU cross the road first...."

I had this cool idea last year to try making my old feed sacks into re-usable shopping bags, but not having a sewing machine kinda put a damper on that plan...I have a bunch of grass seed/old garden seeds laying around that I'm thinking of making sprouted fodder with next!

Hello BYC World! I want to hear how YOU are implementing "RRR" in your chicken keeping routines! Here are a couple of my most recent ideas: Now, in the past I've typically just thrown my shells onto the compost heap, but I've finally decided to save and crush them to either feed back or...

Yeah I am trying not to bring her in unless it's really cold but I want her to heal. Thanks guys.

Needless to say, she's going to be spending tonight (12F) in her box in the laundry room (40F) I wanna give her poor little comb a chance to heal.

Here's what it looks like today.

Yeah. I have been just using Neosporin...it doesn't appear to be getting worse...I will try to take a picture today, just been a hectic week and I haven't gotten around to it.