Special needs chicken taking a dustbath on a beach towel

[wildeflowers]

I am sitting here laughing my butt off. I have a little 2 month old buff orp that somehow got injured. Actually I think the rooster landed on her when he jumped of the roost one day. I brought her inside and have been nursing her. Well, she's a little sick of the crate I've been keeping her in so I've brought her upstairs with me and placed her on a beach towel and she is going to town taking a dust bath. LOL Silly chicken, she is just having a good old time and now instead of getting my work done, I'm sitting here watching a chicken take a dustbath on a beach towel.

 

[suzettex5]

Omg, how cute!! Thanks for the pix!!


btw, cool towel!

 

[kerriliane]

I love it! How silly!

 

[BWKatz]

Awwww.....she's so cute!

 

[Whispering Winds]

She doesn't look "special".

 

[wildeflowers]

I call her special needs because she loses her balance and is having trouble walking around. She tends to sit back on her haunches and flops over backwards a lot. I'm not sure what's wrong with her specifically, other than just injured. She is a real sweetheart though. I do hope she recovers. I have no intention of keeping a house chicken permanently. I joke about with my husband though because it makes him nutty.

(That towel is so ugly in reality. It is an absolute 80s special. It has panthers on it. LOL You would think it would be tigers right? But no, they are panthers. It belonged to my husband and just won't die.)

 

[tammye]

try giving her some vit B12, may help her with her balance, seems to help them walk better. I ahd a hen siddenly unable to walk and looked it up here and found this advice, worked for my girl. Even if she is lame from an ingury the Vitamins won't hurt, they will give her strenght

 

[kla37]

Thanks for sharing the story and the pictures! Too funny! Hope she's OK, she sure is pretty!

 

[Baymule]

That reminds me of the baby squirrel I raised. We would give her nuts and then laugh as she tried to bury them in the tile floor. Your chicken is a hoot.

 

[Willowsong69]

How cute is that? The title alone made me giggle...I enjoyed the pictures that went with it.