Help with indoor isolated chicken

[Guadaupe]

Welcome To BYC

She may be bored, but she may also be tiring out easily trying to recover from the infection and surgery.

If possible, get her outside every day like you have done, this will break up the day and get her moving a little.

If her flock is attacking her when you take her to them, you may find that even once she recovers they won't accept her back and you'll have to find alternative housing for her. It may be worth starting now to make a place for her to be next to her flock so she can visit, but still be protected.

Hopefully in the coming days she will perk up as she heals. Keep us posted.

Yeee. today i brought her outside but she didn't enjoy it as much (it was also much colder than yesterday). I will try later when the day gets a bit warmer. Im thinking of making an extra pen for her to be close to her sisters. But im feeling so scared

 

[Guadaupe]

I have no suggestions for you at this time but I just want to say welcome to BYC and your English is AMAZING!!! I wish you and your hen all the best and a quick recovery to her. Be of good courage!

Oh, I do have a suggestion. Instead of washing her with peroxide, switch to saline solution. You can make your own:

Mix 1 teaspoon of salt with 1 cup of warm water that you have boiled for 15 minutes and then let cool to room temperature (start with a lot more than 1 cup, then measure after it has boiled, or cover while boiling). You can also add a pinch of baking soda to the solution. If you have a spray bottle, you can put the saline water in that and spray her with it, then you don't have to scrub her. You can do this twice a day, then put the healing ointment on her.

I will try this! she is very sweet and lets me do pretty much everything. But maybe scrubbing is not very pleasant for her.

 

[Guadaupe]

They definitely try to establish a new pecking order when some gets pulled out for a bit. It only lasted a little bit for mine they pecked her a couple times and chased her around to tell her she’s at the bottom now and went back to normal. With you only having 3 I’m sure it won’t last long after she heals up. I used one of those fold up puppy fences that ring shaped and just let her peck around and put a sheet over half for shade. I know some people will remove bully chickens and put them in time out cage for a few days. So it drops them down in the order so they aren’t so entitled and mean.

Yeeeeeeah, the bully one is the smallest one. I read somewhere that it's a common thing, that the smallest one tries to get higher in the pecking order. Anyway, before thinking about all that i would really need to see her enjoying her life again it breaks my heart to see her sad like this.