- Dec 12, 2013
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Hi! I have searched and searched, and for the first time I cannot find an answer. So, I have decided to come out of my shell (hehe) a little bit and ask a forum question.
(Side not: hey, thanks BYC community, you have saved my ladies more than once!)
Ok, I have this lovely chicken, "White Chicken" (she was one of my first, when I thought we shouldn't name the chickens. Now I know that if you don't name them they end up with stupid names like White Chicken, Bald Chicken, Giant Boob Chicken...) anyway, she got caught by our dog. She seemed fine, and then she wasn't fine... At all. So, I brought her in to the mudroom in the chicken er and gave her a bath to clean her yuck butt and treated with antibiotics. A few days later and she is almost 100%! Eating, clean bum, tail up and walking around - just not talking yet. I figure she will be in the hospital another week or so, getting the rest of her medicine and some probiotics. But, what then? It's about 14 degrees outside and any acclimation that she has built up to the winter weather will surely be lost!
Can someone advise on what I can do to put her back outside to rock with her flock? She is my second most favorite lady! (Don't tell the others!)
Thanks!
Kim
(Side not: hey, thanks BYC community, you have saved my ladies more than once!)
Ok, I have this lovely chicken, "White Chicken" (she was one of my first, when I thought we shouldn't name the chickens. Now I know that if you don't name them they end up with stupid names like White Chicken, Bald Chicken, Giant Boob Chicken...) anyway, she got caught by our dog. She seemed fine, and then she wasn't fine... At all. So, I brought her in to the mudroom in the chicken er and gave her a bath to clean her yuck butt and treated with antibiotics. A few days later and she is almost 100%! Eating, clean bum, tail up and walking around - just not talking yet. I figure she will be in the hospital another week or so, getting the rest of her medicine and some probiotics. But, what then? It's about 14 degrees outside and any acclimation that she has built up to the winter weather will surely be lost!
Can someone advise on what I can do to put her back outside to rock with her flock? She is my second most favorite lady! (Don't tell the others!)
Thanks!
Kim