Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Chicken Hospital

Thank God for all the rain that He has blessed us with in the last few days! It's been so wonderful to hear it fall on the roof, to see it "green up" the plants and to catch it for our rain water shampoo and conditioner we're working on. Alas, it has caused some problems for us also.
Our snap straps on the little chicken run broke and we had to move the biddies.


I made an unwise decision and put the biddies in the chicken yard with big chickens.

The next morning, I had 4 dead biddies!!! Or so I thought...

We rescued the 2 blue bantams, Harry and Georgia, first.


Then we saved the 2 others. It was such a sad sight.


I really thought we were going to lose the one on the right.


We stuck them in front of a little space heater to get them dried off. After we got their temps up, I fed them warm, wet mash. I mixed in cayenne pepper, frankincense and rosemary oil. It seemed to work very well.


As of right now, all 7 biddies are back outside, in the repaired chicken area. They all are eating and seem to be doing very well. Praise the Lord!

2 comments:

MORTONCLAN said...

Wow! That's so neat how you revived them! They looked sure enough dead in the pictures, but happy and warm in the last one...Way to go!!

Mama to 12, so far said...

Wow! You have really been blessed with a gift of helping/healing! I say that because of the healing spray you make for my baby's rash!! And now the chickens! Wow. God bless you!