No you don’t!! My mom did the same thing a few months ago cuz “she wasn’t feeling well”On the early boat, barely, this morning... I’m going in to make sure my mother gets her medications, she’s been “saving them” for the last two months and been off them completely for several weeks without telling anyoneyou don’t just decide to stop taking you blood pressure and heart meds!
67 chickens in the dark of dawn, two needing special attention and everyone needing fed, watered, and several needing moved before I left. I’m honestly quite surprised I made the ferry.
The Chicken is looking a bit better this morning, perked up some and was eating and drinking, which I will take as a very good sign. Her crop emptied overnight, I was worried as it was a little squishy and huge, but that might just be the pronounced keelbone. The Farmer in me thinks “I should just put her down”, but the irrational “they deserved better lives” part of me still wants her to recover enough to go out on the grass and hunt bugs and feel the sunshine on her feathers.
I didn’t have time to check the incubator before leaving, but I’m sure the little helper will be looking at it before school. Hopefully no one decides to hatch early while I’m away!
Thank you all for the emotional support! I’m getting so tired of dealing with chickens on deaths door from neglect. If it was underlying heath issues it would be one thing, but treatable parasites running rampant and malnutrition is not acceptable to me. Maintaining condition is far easier than recovering it once it’s lost. I’m hoping good sense, some level of compassion for the birds, and being relieved of dealing with the “ewwww chickens are disgusting, but I like eggs” aspect will prevail. I just need to stay calm and pitch my solution: I take all the chickens, manage the eggs as I see fit, you don’t pay for feed, you don’t get more chickens, I give you the eggs you need. Chickens are healthy, people that don’t like them don’t have to deal with them, both problems solved. I won’t even suggest burning the coop down... as long as they promise not to put any poultry in it!
... when I went to check on her (her house in on my property) she wasn’t making sense and could barely walk! We thought she started to decline due to her fall resulting in a broken hip last year... come to find out she had stopped her heart meds! But she is back to her feisty self and doing quite well considering she is 4’ 10 and about 90 lbs... and is fully recovered from her broken hip and living on her own just as before.. which is shocking all the drs 
I may have shown this pic before but I just love it! This is her with my two oldest boys
... they are taller than her on their knees!
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how's the hatch coming? 
Awaiting news with bated breath...
