Update: 3 weeks later after continued daily use of 1/3 then up to 1/2 Monistat ovules daily plus all the other stuff I mentioned is doing as well as now also giving Chick’N Vitamins in her water and the addition of triple antibiotic polysporin cream applied to her vent (plus the antifungal...
I’ve tried looking it up but to no avail. There’s no swelling or hardness on her abdomen. We are fairly certain she’s begun laying again. And even yesterday she stepped out of the chicken run to sit in the nearby ferns for a couple of hours.
We were given this chicken along with 5 others by people who didn’t want them any longer. Although we’ve come to learn it’s good we’ve rescued them. They were in really rough shape when we were given them. They had what we think were depluming mites, really inflamed backsides & vents, varying...
Hens go broody when you don’t want them to… and won’t go broody when you do.