Even with the little bit of membrane up there? I'm so torn. She sure seems healthy in most regards, clean vent, clean body, some scaley leg mites though.
Is there any way to determine if an eye is injured vs has ocular mareks based on the pupil? I rescued this hen from an industrial area and noticed her weird eye- she's in quarantine, so low risk to my established unvaccinated flock. Normal eye on the right side, blown out pupil on the left side.
Yep. She had done a story on me before when I was trying to get chickens legalized in my city. She kept my contact info and when her editor said "We need to run a story about this salmonella outbreak from backyard chickens", she called me up.
I got a call from a reporter at the Detroit Free Press about the latest CDC press release saying Michigan is in the middle of a salmonella outbreak, and it got me thinking...
...how many of us have ACTUALLY ever gotten salmonella from our chickens? I'm pretty casual about shoe changes, and...
deannag1160: this is so outrageous. Do you have a plan of attack for this?
My name is Laura Mikulski - I'm the Director of Media Relations for the Michigan Small Farm Council. If you'd like to talk strategy, as in how to gain attention and begin the process of swaying the media/local...
For anyone who wants to contact the city reps about this, I've found their contact info online. http://www.gardencitymi.org/departments/boards/pdfs/roster.pdf
Randy- I'm going to share this EVERYWHERE. Also, I feel like we need to get a fundraiser going for 1.) your court fees and 2.) a go-pro camera for you to wear on yourself so that you can record ALL of this.