I'm so glad I've found people who understand me! My friends think I've gone chicken-crazy in six short weeks, but who wouldn't?
Friendly, happy, feathered gals who love to give you eggs in return for chicken feed?! What a great bunch of critters!
I want you to know that some of your posts help me save my Delaware, Honey, when she appeared deathly ill for some unknown reason. I watched her go from standing around in a daze in the morning to crawling into a nest box at noon to nearly unconscious in the nest box at two. Brought her in, syringe fed her, kept her in a clean dog crate, syringe-fed her more protein-powder/sugar water, then went out and got her grapes and high-protein grains (thistle seed, flax seed, cracked wheat).
Next morning she was back to standing up in the crate, and after nursing her through the day (she was eating on her own by then!) I could tell her muscle tone had fully returned and her sassy chicken attitude had, too, so I let her roost with her peeps and she never looked back.
As I look back, I think it was some respiratory thing, because she had a hoarse voice and at one point was breathing through her mouth (but not out of anxiety). Now Honey and I have a special bond and she loves to be picked up and held for her bonding moment of head stroking before going off and being a chicken.
So thank you for your open, candid posts and I hope I can give back a little of what you've already given me!
Holly
Friendly, happy, feathered gals who love to give you eggs in return for chicken feed?! What a great bunch of critters!
I want you to know that some of your posts help me save my Delaware, Honey, when she appeared deathly ill for some unknown reason. I watched her go from standing around in a daze in the morning to crawling into a nest box at noon to nearly unconscious in the nest box at two. Brought her in, syringe fed her, kept her in a clean dog crate, syringe-fed her more protein-powder/sugar water, then went out and got her grapes and high-protein grains (thistle seed, flax seed, cracked wheat).
Next morning she was back to standing up in the crate, and after nursing her through the day (she was eating on her own by then!) I could tell her muscle tone had fully returned and her sassy chicken attitude had, too, so I let her roost with her peeps and she never looked back.
As I look back, I think it was some respiratory thing, because she had a hoarse voice and at one point was breathing through her mouth (but not out of anxiety). Now Honey and I have a special bond and she loves to be picked up and held for her bonding moment of head stroking before going off and being a chicken.
So thank you for your open, candid posts and I hope I can give back a little of what you've already given me!
Holly
