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One lesson I learnt the hard way from Piou-piou is to trim away all the feathers close to the wound 🙁. And that you likely need to do it again as feathers can grow back. Yes, I'd be interested to know what your vet says. Looking it up on the internet in french, it seems that dealing with wounds...

...some point, you will consider writing articles on some of those things where your explanations bring information that is very hard to find on BYC. *************** Happy first hatch day, Mélisse, Annette, Lulu and Laure ! We may not have become as attached to you as we have with the first...

It means you run away. It's an excerpt from a song and it's very hard to translate because it's based on word games and doesn't really have a meaning. The t-shirt says "Ode to the night, where you run away, burnt by stars, in full noon." I want to comment on this but I'm afraid I won't make...

I never heard that term TLC before, so I had to look it up. It is a very comforting idea ! Reminds me of being allowed to sleep in my parent's bed when I was sick as a child. Wonderful! And your garden looks so green ! It makes a lovely contrast with the purple. Believe it or not, cottage...

...this post ? ( @Sally PB please forgive me for quoting you out of the blue). It's how I feel some days- paralysed by guilt. Not very helpful! *************** I was Not ready for the chicken drama today. Youtube deleted this, so I hope BYC is more tolerant. What happened? For the first...

Now that last point is something I can totally relate with. Not thinking about what will happen if a male chick does not get along with the adult rooster or hoping having consolidated a third of the property 's fence will stop the boar from destroying the garden come to mind 🙄.

Yes, I agree in general cases. For her we did feel looking at the wound antibiotics were needed because it is so deep and we can't manually clean it inside properly. The first round of antibiotics she had were in November to try to avoid surgery. That was a gamble, but I agreed giving a try at...

Thanks for the suggestions! I tried the bread, but it didn't work. I think she may be more picky than usual because she is broody, as she had two rounds of antibiotics this winter with no issue. It's liquid like water and I need to give 1ml, so it has to be with something that can either absorb...

Thank you again for sharing your thoughts, it's interesting for me to hear your reactions as I tend to think in circle. I do agree with most of what you say ; it seems Frida isn't sure about it though 😁. I suppose you saw the Guardians paper interviewing hundred of scientists, many who...

I am not happy chicken wise with the last two days. Lilly is crated and will be for another day ; we pour betadine in her wound morning and evening. It's a good thing she is half broody because it helps her bear the confinement better- she sits on an egg half of the day. She gets two times out...

The cats say they don't mind rain but they mind being woken up. Wanted to share this that came up in my social media today. Her poetry may not be technically the best but often I feel like she expressed my exact feelings.

Thank you all again for the kind words. I miss her more than I imagined. Partly because spending so much time caring and worrying for her made me feel more attached, but also now she's gone I really feel a page has turned in our chicken journey. It's due to specific circumstances. My partner...

The post about Blanche, the little ex-batt with nine lives. She was the first hen we named for a simple reason : when the ex-batt's arrived as pullets, she was the only one we could tell apart because she was whiter than all except Cannelle, and smaller. But she turned out to be the last to...

I use soap, and I don't think it's questionable. It's what I've been told to use when I did first aid training and my brother told me it's what the paramedics are told to use as well. It's just that in this case a spray would have been more convenient, I didn't have enough clean towels to sponge...

Another post about a distressing health issue 😬. I am going to do just what I said I wouldn't, and post in detail about some yucky scary chicken health problem that I encountered yesterday. I hope the outcome turns out to be not as bad as the fright it gave me ! I may be too squeamish for...

Thank you all so much for the kind thoughts. I feel so dumb bawling for a chicken that I knew would die, your support means a lot. Beautiful words. I don't feel guilty for once, because in her case I'm sure we did what she wanted in the end. I have been worrying she would die for such a long...

Good bye, Blanche. I had come to believe you would live forever. 1 May 2021.

I think it doesn't matter if you transplant them later in the year. We transplanted some at my family's mountain cabin in July and it worked like a charm. I've discovered we have some white ones growing far below, so I also want to transplant some. The two tone iris came out today but it's life...

They began flowering at the beginning of april, and most were destroyed by the frost. The ones in the chicken yard are the last to bloom so they didn't have flowers yet when it froze. And the two tone one I really like never came out. Are yours flowering now ? It's a complicated and kind of...

I am almost sure her issue is in the reproductive system. Her laying issues have been going on for five months now and slowly getting worse. Today she finally passed an egg, a huge elongated thing, and she almost instantly got colour back on her comb and skin. I am trying a higher level of...