I am on the phone with the hen-owner and on the computor with all of you. The vet gave the hen a shot of oxytocin(?sp) and owner has chicken in warm bath and is 'adding ' olive oil with massage through vent. Will let you all know outcome.
We have dust bath area that is under a little shed-type platform, so the diatom. earth, mixed with sand, stays dry. It gathers sunshine, so there is always a crowd at the Dust Bowl.
In addition, I keep a flour sifter in the bucket and add a little into the nest boxes now and then. The...
I just had a flash today, as I was putting away chick equipment.
If I had gotten some dinner plates from the thrift store and glued them to the bottom of the feeders, I wouldn't have 2 broken feeder bottoms.
Everyone comes to visit and have a nature experience and invariably, while helping...