Today, midday, two small gray, unidentified mammals got in, killed one chicken, and gravely injured the other. I gave the injured chicken a shot of corticoid and it's been almost 6 hours and she's still alive and breathing steadily, although laying down on her side with her eyes closed...
My chicken hasn't laid eggs for 4 days (she usually lays one almost daily), ever since she got stung by a scorpion. I know scorpion venom is a neurotoxin and I figure it's because of that. She's walking fine now, but I am worried that having so many efgs in her without coming out might hurt...