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I really had NO IDEA how amazing they were when I got into this chicken thing. I knew they were pretty cool 🌴:cool: (even if I can't figure why they scream over 1 nest box when no one intends to sit on any eggs...) but I still get pleasantly surprised just about everyday. Amazie has given me the...

Me too. I thought she was chewed to deep and did not understand how her skin was going to grow back let alone follicles and then healthy feather growth. Her tail still looks a little jacked but I am not going to doubt its own perfect heal yet, thinking it will just take longer and may even need...

Pretty darn awesome yes?!!!

Such a relief. I had my moments that I thought... man, I should have culled her and not put her through this healing process, she will never be the same... but that was really my ignorance and lack of experience. I totally bow down to the chicken heal :jumpy🌴:cool:

Aloha folks! It has been 1 month and a little over 3 weeks since Mazie was attacked. I believe her to be 98% normal hen back in with the 1 roo flock- but 85% her normal as there have been some emotional scars. She is skittish of anything coming from behind her but she is also more trusting of me...

Hi folks! Mazie update; she is doing awesome- a fearless mending machine! She has a ring of new feathers all around her backside. Today looks like she is going to lay her 3rd egg in 3 days, her first egg marked the end of her fifth week of recovery. She ventured out to the front yard with full...

The mites disappeared with a spray on a few more butts. I'm thrilled. Must have been escapees from the nest box. Nice quick ending after above conversations. Then the mosquitoes came out in full force. :barnieNever seen anything like it, poor chickens, such a brutal time. Mazie is doing much of...

I have a super open coop and I DE my poop boards almost daily, spray my roosts w/ Ecovet and my nest boxes pretty often too. I did and do a lite Sevin in the corners of the nest boxes (kills the ants and roaches), then put a piece of cut feed bag over, then nesting materials. I change nesting...

Thank you, that is a great story! I noticed my gals being protective of Mazie too, which is opposite of the things I have read on this site and others. I have so much respect for these little creatures and this incident certainly adds to. The ability to heal so quickly from a wound like that...

8 cc of the 1% per gallon for 2 days. Pretty sure I got that off of this site. then repeat in 10 days. But I thought since only the nest box had the infestation I could get away with a spray on the butt. I thought wrong.

OK. I'll have my DH help me out this afternoon and get a bright LED light to shine up her turtle shell scab lol. Good thinking. Not creeped out at all... yet... I hope, ever. :sick Well, with my few minute stare, I don't see anything slithering out so you all may be safe from me posting a photo...

Well, for the mites- a little over 1 month ago, pre Mazie injury, I had an isolated infestation with a day 15 broody hen and her box. I treated everyone w/ ivermectin in the water dose, removed all of the bedding, vacuumed, sprayed all boxes & roosts with vinegar & dish liquid mix-let sit 30...

No, I wont pull off for sure, it is a huge scab 😬 like a turtle. If it gets funky somewhere like hangers I may cut any potential trouble off. Does that sound about right? I have no idea about what to expect next, though I really feel that we are far out of the woods now. She did a great job...

Just on her tail I see some and on her upper back where she still had skin. I am not sure what I am going to see under her scabs but I'm starting to think it is going to blow my mind in a good way. I never would have thought or guessed a little chicken could do such a big amazing heal. I mean, I...

Aloha gang! It has been 3 weeks since Mazie suffered the dog attack and a week since I wrote an update. So Mazie's care this last week was to pretty much to leave her to her own devices with the roosters locked out of the run. I did lose her one time... but 45 minutes later I found her tucked...

No soak for Mazie today as the weather was still a little goofy and her play time seemed important too. She had most all of her day in the run, mostly because she would not let me near her and I did not want to stress her by chasing her. When it started raining a little hard this late noon I...

OK, that is good info. I am just a bit worried about her picking up sand and matter now that she is out and about more and with her healing kicking in... and the tropics 😬 I will continue with the Neosporin and thank you so much! Earlier this morning I put Mazie out in the garden and let a few...

Oh my goodness that was an incredible read! Thank you so much for sharing on many levels. I was pretty much glued and invested in her process. What an incredible heal and happy ending. Well, the OP's research on her ointment/poultice is fun and fabulous. I will need to look on the internet and...

Mazie spent most of her day out today. We did have a bit of rain for a few hours around noon so I put her up till it passed, when it cleared I put her in her outside jail so the whole flock could wander freely (except her). Her appetite seems to be quickly improving so just about a 1/2 tbsp of...

today I am doing much of the same for Mazie. She is getting her morning out with the girls- no boys allowed 🌴:cool: just the girls only club in the run and garden- working out a jacket for her in my head so she can wander with more freedoms but being she is so tore up, I think just keeping...