Hi, Last month I posted here when a coyote *badly* injured one of my barred rocks, Chickpea. We didn't think she was going to make it. Her side was ripped completely open and her vent and tail were chewed raw and open. My doctor friend sewed her up and we gave her antibiotic shots and she has pulled through!
Her feathers are growing in and she's just started laying again, but now the eggs are off-white. Is this anything to worry about? Could her coloring apparatus have been injured in the attack? Is it safe to say that, now that she is laying eggs and chickening around almost normally, that she is officially out of the woods?
Here is the old thread with pics of her injuries if you scroll through enough. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/chicken-was-attacked-by-canine-what-to-do-next.1288059/
Her feathers are growing in and she's just started laying again, but now the eggs are off-white. Is this anything to worry about? Could her coloring apparatus have been injured in the attack? Is it safe to say that, now that she is laying eggs and chickening around almost normally, that she is officially out of the woods?
Here is the old thread with pics of her injuries if you scroll through enough. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/chicken-was-attacked-by-canine-what-to-do-next.1288059/