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- Oct 3, 2021
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She’s so happy outside sunbathing a destroying my garden beds (spoilt much) hahaWhen I first took her to the vet we prepared to lose her in the night, he didn’t do much for her with future in mind just what he could do to put her at ease (pain meds, food, fluid)
He wasn’t even going to seal the wounds but one on her neck we only saw once she was being put back in her box to go home and he though it was bad enough to staple a dying bird poor baby
The vet wasn’t in office the next day so we had to scavenge to find her some pain meds that would be okay - we found some cat meloxicam and gave her the dose we found online and hoped for the best still expecting to lose her the second night
Giving her Non prescribed meds was risky and scary but I knew that night that pain was her body biggest enemy, she just looked so sore and could barely lift her neck
The next day the vet called to book an appointment for her after seeing the updates we left for him with the nurses
we showed up at the vet at the earliest appointment possible and shocked the poor man!
This time he took a swab of her smallest but worst looking wound because it had turned green
He wasn’t sure if it was bruise or infection (hence the swab) and he gave her more meloxicam and antibiotics and fed her again with the crop needle. ( which we have been doing twice a day, I guess I can put crop feeding adult chickens on my list of skills now lol - it is not easy!)
She can still bite quite hard when she misses the corn!
And she’s been running!
She’s basically a house chicken at this point lol my family make her little snack and treats all day haha
Best part about chickens is that it’s pretty hard to give them a bad diet, pellets and veggie scraps and she’s happy as can be
She is the cutest little roomba lol and doubles as a lawn mower and fertiliser! Very versatile