Chicken Doctor's Advice

Hetty seems to have made a miraculous recovery, I am happy to report. Helen was looking decidedly ropey for a while there, but all the chickens have now been wormed and epsom salted, so if there was anything going on in their digestive systems, there won't be now!

I diluted a teaspoon of epsom salts into a cupful of water and mixed it in with their normal water. They aren't too keen on the taste, but eventually the bowl is depleted and they get a good clearout! As Hetty was so poorly last week, we used a syringe to inject it directly into her mouth (diluted of course). What fun we had - diluted epsom salts everywhere! You need to make sure that you only inject a small amount at a time as you can drown the chicken if you do it too fast!

We have been worming the hens this week, using Flubenvet which we bought from our local animal food supply shop. You mix 6g of Flubenvet with 2kg of chicken feed and give them this over the period of a week - simples! The hens eat this quite happily - result - happy, healthy, hens!