I was going with 2 weeks because that's what the bottle said for meat birds before process (and what I've read other people have done). I might play it by ear. I've thought about keeping the eggs and feeding them back to the chickens but that defeats the purpose...I might cook them and give them to the dogs after a week...I don't know. Of course if parasites are the hidden reason they've slowed down on laying and they start back again, it shouldn't take long to get caught back up.
I hear ya, it's hard not to be able to save every animal that needs it. Heck, we even have a chinchilla that was going to be thrown out on the street - literally. All you can do is what you can and pray for the rest that you can't personally do something for.Just took better picture of my girl Cheyenne. I rescued Cheyenne from a puppy mill, and called animal control after I purchased her. He had 16 adult dogs and 4 pups, all very sick. I chose to rescue Cheyenne becuase she was 1 of 2 pups that did not look to survive much longer, the other being a solid white male with horrible eye infection and loaded with worms as Cheyenne was. However, I did not have enough money to purchase both dogs, Cheyenne in my opinion was slightly worse off just skin and bones, and if I took both and animal control did come but didn't see how bad the dogs were, nothing would have been done. I left with a very heavy heart, it kills me not to be able to save them all. Animal control never called me back, and when I called them they would not tell me if they had even checked the place out. I offered to send pictures of Cheyenne and her vet papers showing how sick she was when i brought her, along with her AKC paperwork (I didn't get a bill of sale, but the paperwork shows the breeder name and could be used as proof of where I got her), but they told me no. I purchased her in Houston.
Anyway, on top of her illnesses, Cheyenne had never known human touch, she screamed when I picked her up. She was terrified of grass as she had lived all (11 weeks) of her life on a concrete pen with her mother and single sibling. (the other 2 pups were from a different dam, he had 3 males and 13 females that he bred. The male dogs didn't even have kennels of their own, they moved from female to female to breed them). The man always power housed the concrete free of poop, so she also didn't know what being dry felt like. To this day she is terrified of strange dogs and people, no one but us can get close to her and she clearly prefers my husband to the rest of us (my hubby is a big softie, when I brought her home and he saw her condition he never got mad that I brought her even though I was supposed to be looking for a second breed able female for our Siberian breeding plan). We have come a long way with rehabilitating her, but she will never relax when outside our home and we can therefore never re-home her (not that we want to, but due to her circumstances it could never be an option for us if something bad happened and we had to reduce our pet population). She is AKC registered, and both her sire and dam looked pure bred, but IF she is pure Siberian she is a horribly bred 1. Siberians do NOT come in brown, red yes, brown never. Also, her nose is too long, her ears too tall, legs too long, and her tail don't have the Siberian sickle curve over her back. Because of this, we will have her spayed and simply keep her as a spoiled pet. She is 8 months old.
