A Classy Shadow
In the Brooder
- Apr 1, 2020
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Hi my BYC new friends ,
I’m so excited to have found your website and to finally find out more info about chickens
My name is Lisa and I tried so many names to become a part of this BYC family and kept getting the message that the name was already being used
So I used my horses name
“A Classy Shadow”
I am a huge animal Lover and have been since a child . I now have 4 horses , two dogs , 7 chickens and 6 cats.
Two years ago after having brain aneurysm surgery , I really wanted chickens . They were the best recovery therapy
I Love my girls ! They are now two years old. I Had two roosters out of the bunch and had to rehome them 
My seven girls now have been one happy family . I know three are black sex links and one a Plymouth rock And one an Australorp and I forget what my beautiful Red Hens breed is. I love spending time with my girls and just to watch and listen to them .
Recently ( one week ago yesterday ) I noticed one of my black sex links acting really different . She was standing in a corner all by herself with her tail straight down and pretty much standing straight up right. She could barely walk . I thought she was possibly egg bound as my black sex links have been my best egg producers out of the bunch .
After much googling and looking up info on the Internet, I had given her a warm Epson salt spa treatment once a day and even sometimes twice a day , gave her calcium , tried Vaseline and mineral oil , etc.
and put her in a large dog crate with lots of fresh bedding .
And brought her in the house so she could stay warm and I could really monitor her And keep her away from the others . At first she wasn’t eating or drinking and seemed very lethargic. I seriously Did not think she would be alive the next morning when I came to check on her. But she chirped and cooed at me as a walked in the room the next
morning and has continued each day to get better.
Fast forwarding to today (one week and one day later ) , I’m wondering if it was more of an injury . She is walking now but with a little bit of a limp and eating well . Even when I would give her her warm bath , she would kinda stretch out her left
wing .
I never realized that chickens can hiss . She would make like a hissing sound when I’d try to give her some pedialite with a syringe into her mouth to keep her hydrated .
I carried her to the big chicken pen to see her siblings today hoping I could put her back in . I know she misses them
At first everyone kind of ignored each other and she was loving it and then one of my other black sex links started a fight with her 
Then everyone got in a tussle .Oh WHAT TO DO ??
I didn’t want her to get re injured So I now have her by herself again .
( right now in a make shift play pen in the yard enjoying some clover and grass and sunshine.Suggestions Please
Also ..
How do you go about getting antibiotics for chickens ?
Glad you joined.
I will try that .
