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Thanks for the advice and encouragement. She's been getting 1.5 boiled eggs and about 100 pieces of layer pellet a day from hand-feeding, plus whatever she can eat on her own. She's eating more on her own now - wet pellets, salad greens, and occasional scratch grains. Dry pellets, she cannot...

Thanks for the suggestions. She is drinking on her own now - has been for about a week. She walks around a bit and goes to the water when she needs it. She gets some rooster booster electrolytes in her water. We syringe-fed her water and electrolyte mixture before she got to the point of...

Thanks for the follow-up questions. My spouse is feeding her by opening her beak with one hand and tossing the food into her mouth with the other. I can do wound cleaning and dressing, but really can't bring myself to force-feed her. I'm afraid of hurting her. I've asked him to wet the food...

Summary: One month after a head injury from a bobcat attack, hen appears to have recovered, and is drinking water, but does not eat food on her own -- should we expect a full recovery? Is there anything we should do other than keep waiting and keep feeding her? The long version: I didn't write...