Hang In There, Chick!

This is Roxie. Roxie is a good girl. She is a pretty little girl, and quite the little model, but not too long ago things were a little different.

See she had a little boo-boo on the back of her head (we think the rooster was a little rough while he was rooster-ing her), and ended up getting picked on by the other girls. It looked really bad. We almost thought we may have to put her down, but decided she deserved a chance to fight!

This was before they really got her. I'll spare you the graphic before picture.

We built her her own little pen within the chicken yard, and her own little house. She was separated, but still with her flock. She stayed in her house for the first week or two. Her wounds started scabbing over and started to look like they were going to heal up. We had hope. The day she ventured out of her house and into her little run was an amazing sign.  Eventually she had little feathers starting to grow on her neck. Then the skin starting growing back on her head. The feathers starting coming in. After another week or two she starting laying eggs again! Its been about 2 months now and she is almost completely healed up. She is happy, healthy, and itching to scratch around the yard with the rest of her flock.

Whats left of Roxie's boo-boo.

The moral of this story is when the world knocks you down and pecks the back of your head raw, hang in there chick, eventually your feathers will grow back.... or something like that.