Ms. Maggie May goes four to five day at time seeming to do just fine. Each fourth or fifth day she gouges her wound open with her dinosaur clawed feet. When you have the chance to look closely at a chicken's legs/feet, this description will make more sense. Today I went into the atrium with kitchen treats, meal worms and sweet words and she has scratched her wound opened again. Usually she's perky and the worms seem to get her over the fact that blood is spattered all over her small enclosure. Today she had nothing to say as I greeted her with a smorgasbord board. I picked her up, ran warm water over her to clean her, which included removing blood that had me believing she'd scratched an eye out. Thankfully, it was that sticky tenacious chicken blood. After getting her cleaned up, she flashed a beady WTF look at me.
After antiseptic and Neosporin I put her back in her enclosure. She rewarded me with an egg just a while later. While this is a vicious cycle I don't yet know how to break, she is doing what chickens do and despite what looks like amazing blood loss, has the internal resources to make breakfast for us.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
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