fuzzi's Chicken Journal

[fuzzi]

@fuzzi for crochet
This is Wendy. She has left us as well. Both Wendy and Tina were Rhode islands red. Wendy was big an bulky. Tina was small and slim.
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I'll show her the photos and let you know.

 

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Tax and story of Honey. I shared Honey's story a little bit on Shad's thread and BY Bob's thread. Her story continues and she is a miracle chicken!

-- 2021-March-12: We picked up Honey at a local feed store, along with 7 other day old chicks.

-- 2023-September: Honey was on Baytril for 10 days due to reproductive issue. We almost thought she was not going to make it. She even laid some eggs after that.

-- February of this year, she laid lash eggs.

-- April 6th of this year, she went blind all of a sudden. She then moved into the human coop. It took us a while to figure out how to feed her, and that she can eat on her own.
This is June. She has her stone bowl (so she cannot knock it over) in her cage where she eats out of. She had the company of Poopy at the time.

And sometimes it is Light (left) that keeps her company.

-- Mid September, she started falling off her roost (we place a roost in the cage at night). By the end of September, she was not able to walk any more.
We are feeding her vitamin E and B. Her appetite was/is still good, and has a strong will to live. We switched to hand feeding her, bathing her every other day.

This is one of the seats/bed we made for her.

I made her this sling three weeks ago (end of Oct). Yes, it took hours to sew. I almost got a sewing machine. It worked well and kept her clean/comfy.

But she started to walk again three days ago!!! We can't believe it!!! It is a shame that I don't have a picture of that.

This is yesterday me and Honey sunbathing together

Honey the blind miracle chicken. Her story will continue.

 

[fuzzi]

Tax and story of Honey. I shared Honey's story a little bit on Shad's thread and BY Bob's thread. Her story continues and she is a miracle chicken!

-- 2021-March-12: We picked up Honey at a local feed store, along with 7 other day old chicks.

-- 2023-September: Honey was on Baytril for 10 days due to reproductive issue. We almost thought she was not going to make it. She even laid some eggs after that.

-- February of this year, she laid lash eggs.

-- April 6th of this year, she went blind all of a sudden. She then moved into the human coop. It took us a while to figure out how to feed her, and that she can eat on her own.
This is June. She has her stone bowl (so she cannot knock it over) in her cage where she eats out of. She had the company of Poopy at the time.View attachment 3990419
And sometimes it is Light (left) that keeps her company.
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-- Mid September, she started falling off her roost (we place a roost in the cage at night). By the end of September, she was not able to walk any more.
We are feeding her vitamin E and B. Her appetite was/is still good, and has a strong will to live. We switched to hand feeding her, bathing her every other day.

This is one of the seats/bed we made for her.
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I made her this sling three weeks ago (end of Oct). Yes, it took hours to sew. I almost got a sewing machine. It worked well and kept her clean/comfy.
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But she started to walk again three days ago!!! We can't believe it!!! It is a shame that I don't have a picture of that.

This is yesterday me and Honey sunbathing together
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Honey the blind miracle chicken. Her story will continue.

Thank you SO much for sharing.

 

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In warm(ish) weather I use a little giant 3 gallon water station for one flock, it's a real pill to clean and heavy to carry, but I like the capacity. I'll be switching to a rubber bowl soon for this flock.

Rubber bowls like @fuzzi uses, I use for another smaller flock year round and in the winter. I haven't tried placing them in tires which is a great idea. I just go change out water if it's frozen. The rubber bowls are tough, so even if frozen solid you can just turn them over, stomp on them and the ice will come out.

@fuzzi you may want to read up on water glassing some eggs. I've found the method to work well. Another thing I've tried and done is freeze eggs for later use. You do want to break them and whisk them up just a bit, then you can portion the eggs into ziplock bags, freezer jars, etc. Both methods work well for baking and scrambled eggs.



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Yes I have tried both waterglass and freezing, when I was overflowing with eggs.

I put whisked eggs in a muffin tray. Each muffin hole was 1.5 eggs. After freezing, they were popped out to ziploc.

But we haven't had eggs for at least 1 month. Just yesterday and the day before, Foxy gifted us two eggs.

 

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I'll show her the photos and let you know.

Thank you.