Curled toes splint check up
Our curled
toe chicken seems to walk
and scratch just as well as the rest of her
flock.
She seems a little smaller
than some of the other hens, but we think that would be more connected
to her early struggle as a chick.
It's tough not to start
calling her "Curly". I've done it a few times and caught myself.
Knowing a bird by her first name seems a little too close to the
"friend zone" for my comfort level and it would no doubt complicate things
on retirement day.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Curles and Cues
My favorite thing about the tales I hear from farmers and homesteaders is the humanity they have towards chickens like Anonymous/Curly. One of my friends has a chicken that has had several eggs break inside of her. My friend goes through the agony of reaching inside the hen to act as amateur vet and avoid the chicken's untimely death.
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Maggie
— Sat Oct 15 16:16:10 2011
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Egg-bound hen
I'm not sure I'd actually baby an egg-bound hen like that. Unfortunately, once a chicken becomes egg-bound, she's likely to keep repeating the problem for the rest of her life. Luckily, I've never had to deal with that choice --- I try to keep our chickens lean, which makes them far less likely to have trouble.
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anna
— Sat Oct 15 20:28:45 2011
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