Remember when chicken sweaters were the BIG FASHION THING? Maybe not. It actually only lasted a day in my coop. But it’s a day the Hipster Hens will never forget.
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Remember when chicken sweaters were the BIG FASHION THING? Maybe not. It actually only lasted a day in my coop. But it’s a day the Hipster Hens will never forget.
This is the saga of how one tenacious little red hen at death's door fought her way back to the land of the living. It is also the tale of my search for the needle of truth about a confusing chicken disease and its treatment in the haystack of conflicting information on the internet. Sometimes, in order to do the right thing for your sick chicken, you have to sift through a lot of hay, then grit your teeth and hope you’re grabbing the needle.
A hen can go from normal to fly-blown in 24 hours, and can go from fly-blown to dead in an equally short period of time.
Every double-walled water fount will eventually start to leak due to tiny holes in the sleeve that allow air to enter. Repair is simply a matter of filling those holes. Read this post to learn how to do the fix, and I’ll even throw in a magic trick!
Sometimes when a mommy hen and a daddy rooster love each other very, very much……