Disabled chicken keepers

[boskelli1571]

Severe anxiety is disabling - therapy chickens may not be officially recognized, but they are certainly worth their weight in gold!
Thanks for the reply, may I get back to you with any questions I might come across?? Thanks for your input, Sue

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Severe anxiety is disabling - therapy chickens may not be officially recognized, but they are certainly worth their weight in gold!
Thanks for the reply, may I get back to you with any questions I might come across?? Thanks for your input, Sue

Feel free to get back to me if you have any questions. My psychologist is actually going to give me a letter for my therapy chickens.
About 2 weeks ago I suffered a severe anxiety attack after a lady at a high end restaurant starting cursing at my mother when her chair hit this lady’s chair as she was getting up. I started to hyperventilate and I felt like I might pass out. That night I had a pit in my stomach and I longed for one of my chickens to hold and pet. I ended up falling asleep finally but I couldn’t shake the pit that had settled in my stomach. I felt like I was going crazy, I was watching my tv show to keep my mind off of what happened at the restaurant and all of a sudden the scene from the restaurant starting playing itself in my mind. I freaked out because I wasn’t even thinking about it and it crept into my mind. I felt powerless because I couldn’t get my mind to stop replaying the scene. I threw up the next day and it took me about a week to calm down from the experience.

 

[Blooie]

Fabulous article - thanks Blooie

You're welcome! Hope there was a little something in there you can use.

We also have a thread on BYC -
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/raising-chickens-and-special-needs-kids.935165/

You can meet Kendra, Caleb, Jesse, and of course the amazing Richard!

 

[perchie.girl]

Thanks for your quick reply Deb . I love your plan - may I put it into the piece I'm writing (with credit of course)?
I assume you would have someone doing the 'mucking out' for you and any heavy/difficult lifting?

I have it planned that all feeding will come from the aisle and the roosts will have something called a poo hammock a canvas arrangement for catching the night time poo. Here in the desert the poo dessicates within hours so there is no need to clean it except on a schedual... there will be access from the back side where I can roll it all into a receptical... wagon or bin havent decided yet.

and No I dont have help...

Water will be automatically delivered and the tubs are easy to clean just dump em in the penand scrub with a long handled toilet brush.

Yes you can use my pix with credits... let me know when you use em.

deb