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Our little bunch (2 Austrolarps, 2 Delawares and 1 something spotted) just started laying: yesterday 2 eggs and 1 today. Wahoo! We free range during the day. Should we keep them in their run and coop for a few days to make sure they keep depositing them where we can find them?

Sammi update: Her wound is healing nicely, it's smaller and skin that is growing is looking healthy. She still has a pretty severe limp. Apparently, her left leg was injured internally, we can't seem to locate anything obvious. But at least she is able to get around a bit now. We brought her...

Here are some current pictures of Sammi. You can see her still sizable wound. She's kinda greasy from the antibiotic ointment (which, incidentally, is not harmful to her as she ingests some, from every thing I've researched) I'm ordering a chicken saddle as our feed store doesn't carry...

Hi, this is Sammi the chicken's owner from "hen wounded can't get rid of maggots" thread. Rachel looks great! I'm so glad she is healing so well! Sammi's wound doesn't look near as good, though it seems to be SLOWLY healing. Maybe her one-day's absence and literally hundreds of maggots made for...

I've wondered about her getting too much of the antibiotic cream too. I know she gets some because it spreads around as she moves. I don't know that it would necessarily hurt her, I would think it would probably just "slide right through" her system. We are going to attempt (again!) to wrap it...

Quick Sammi update: She seems to be doing well. Skin on her rear has healed and she is getting new feathers. Apparently that feels itchy and sensitive. she preens at that area and doesn't seem to like it if we touch that new skin when trying to put ointment on her still open wound. It's been...

A hen saddle!! I've seen the ads for those, I'll have to see if our feed store has them, they probably do, they seem to have everything. My girls naively think the other chickens would never do anything to hurt her. I'll try to let them stay innocent of what chickens can be capable of. She is...

Thanks for asking! Sammi is improving, albeit a bit slowly. She did one round of antibiotics, and is eating well, with the probiotics sprinkled on. Her skin on her bum has healed and is starting a few feathers, under her wing the open wound is still there but it is shrinking as the skin...

Sammi update: No news is good news, I hope. She seems stable, no major changes the last couple of days. She still eating good but still not able to stand much or get around very well. She hobbles and her right wing droops. She'll stand while eating for a minute or so and then settle back down...

Sammi update: sorry it took all day to get to the computer. Sammi is, I think, getting better - little by little. She clucked a greeting this afternoon when I checked on her. First time since she got hurt! She's less shaky and seems to be steadying a bit. We haven't had to pick any maggots off...

Back home now. Sammi seems a little mare alert, although she is still not able to get around, stands a little, then awkwardly lays down. I'm wondering about her "quivering". I've noticed that it seems to be more her back end that is quivery. Also, the bony area under her pooper seems to be...

Quick Sammi update before we are gone for most of the day: Cleaned her yesterday evening, picked out another 20 or so maggots from a couple of skin pockets (will they never end?) Slathered her with triple antibiotic ointment and put a on non-stick gauze pad. We couldn't get the vetwrap on (yet)...

Thank you! I'll check on the aspirin and buttermilk suggestions. She often gets oatmeal here, with yogurt. We did her first shot! We didn't kill her (yet) I held her and my daughter swabbed and injected, per the info given. Sammi didn't flinch. What a trooper. Now she is being fed scrambled...

Thank you tiki244 I'll pick up the probiotics at the same time as the meds. I feel a little odd about giving her eggs:/ reminds me of an Old Far Side catroon of a chicken needing eggs for a recipe and looking at her nest... I'm off to the feed store with my print out. Wish me success!

Thanks chicmom. From all I've read so far, it seems to me that Sammi should get injected antibiotics since it's a wound, not an illness. Here is info I found here at BYC. I copied and pasted to paper so I can make sure I get the right stuff and do it correctly. Lot's of info, but seems to be...

The BYC community is amazing! Thank you all so much for your support and concern. Sammi update: She's huddled in her cage and shivering (it's not at all chilly in the room she's in, not a/c'd and by the oft running dryer) , hasn't moved around much during the night, judging from the poo...

No beards, although one that we lost to a predator was white and gray (blended, not spotted) with kind of a "lions mane" around her face and a perpetual surprised or dunce look.

Thanks tiki244. My hubby and I are planning to give the regeneration method a try. The NFZ seems to be keeping the area quite moist for now. It's a wound dressing with .2% Nitrofurazone for dogs, cats, and horses. We got it at Fleet Farm on recommendation from a lady working there. The caution...

Warning, yucky picture! The first one is a close up of part of Sammi's injury with the NFZ on it. That is what is yellowish and goopy. (The blueish color is from the single treatment of Blukote we did before starting this treatment) The second is to show all of her. The rest of her injury is...

Update on Sammi: She's still with us, eating yogurt and rice and feed. We cleaned her off, used more of the NFZ, picked some more maggots. It was harder today because there are less of them but they are under pockets of skin. So yay and yuck! As I was holding her, she feels warm and is...