We brought Foghorn back from the vet. She is on medication for 10 days and has to be kept isolated so the other hens won't peck at her weird looking beak and so she won't peck at anything hard.
So we have her set up in the house here and she is not happy. We're hanging around with her, but we can't let her fly in case she injures her beak and she can't roam around for the same reason. So she is 'cooped' up in the dog run we used before we brought them outside and it's covered so she can't hop out. I have to force pills down her throat and coat the underside of her upper beak with medication 2x a day and I feel AWFUL!!!! She should be with her sisters outside!!!!!!!
She's so lonely
Is there anything I can do to make these next 10 days a happier time for her? She's eating drinking, preening. She looks and acts totally fine, except for the blobby thing on her beak. What's going to happen when I bring her back out after 10 days? Will the gang accept her back? I am totally freaked about this!
On a brighter note, Ghost our Delaware laid her first egg. Her egg song woke me up this morning! HOWEVER.....she managed to break it and was laying in the mess, so now her beautiful white feathers on her chest are streaked with yolk. Silly hen. It looks like she laid it on the shelf in front of the nest boxes, because it was all wet there when I checked. Our other RIR, Jean, (Foghorn's sister) is building a nest in the nest box and she was singing this morning too, but no egg yet.
I guess the good comes with the bad as they say. But my poor baby.....
So we have her set up in the house here and she is not happy. We're hanging around with her, but we can't let her fly in case she injures her beak and she can't roam around for the same reason. So she is 'cooped' up in the dog run we used before we brought them outside and it's covered so she can't hop out. I have to force pills down her throat and coat the underside of her upper beak with medication 2x a day and I feel AWFUL!!!! She should be with her sisters outside!!!!!!!


Is there anything I can do to make these next 10 days a happier time for her? She's eating drinking, preening. She looks and acts totally fine, except for the blobby thing on her beak. What's going to happen when I bring her back out after 10 days? Will the gang accept her back? I am totally freaked about this!
On a brighter note, Ghost our Delaware laid her first egg. Her egg song woke me up this morning! HOWEVER.....she managed to break it and was laying in the mess, so now her beautiful white feathers on her chest are streaked with yolk. Silly hen. It looks like she laid it on the shelf in front of the nest boxes, because it was all wet there when I checked. Our other RIR, Jean, (Foghorn's sister) is building a nest in the nest box and she was singing this morning too, but no egg yet.
I guess the good comes with the bad as they say. But my poor baby.....
