UPDATE: She is making a full recovery. Her eye is starting to open up and she can see out of it. She is growing her feathers back already and running around the yard eating all the weeds and worms she can! Thanks to everyone for the helpful words!
This was very encouraging for me! Thank you so much for posting your personal experience. I am new to the backyard chicken life, but I just want to do what is right for the birds because they are pets just like a dog or cat would be.
They are sleeping in a carrier inside the house for good now. I feel like they are safe in there and I don't mind them in there. I have killed the opossum and am working to fix the coop up for their day time use. Thank you for the kind words. I am going to take her to vet specialist so she can...
Over the summer I got four hens and absolutely adored the process. They have been a treat for the family. Sunday night an opossum broke into their enclosure and killed two of the chickens and left one missing some feathers with a wound on her back (not too big) and then one of her eyes is shut...