Angelina's Garden

Slice of Life 2019: Day 21

A follow up to Stitching a Chicken …

Betty has survived! Now, she’s a spring chicken.

Here is a link to the post I wrote just a few days after her surgery back in January: Stitching a Chicken.

Poor Betty had a 3 + inch laceration on her left flank, down into her leg. She looked as if she were prepped for a rustic cooking demonstration. The horror! It was later discovered that a fouled patch of chicken wire in the coop ripped her from stem to stern! I figured any intervention we made on her behalf was a shot in the dark. Yet, as a spry young thing, she managed the surgery and recovery without a hitch.

In fact, I am completely beside myself with wonder at how she survived this catastrophic injury.

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The photos above show her just minutes after the sutures were secured and all through her first week back in the coop.

Today, the first day of spring, I went out to the coop to get a closer look at her healing wound. I didn’t know what I find when I started looking through her feathers at her pinkish skin. She’s been eating well, hanging with the flock and moving fine around the yard: all good signs.

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To my amazement, all I could find was a bald patch, a small scab and some purple antiseptic still embedded in her feathers.

This makes me very happy. And, its another reason why I love my hubby! He’s always up for a good livestock medical challenge. Congratulations and many thanks to our surgeon.

Now Betty’s a spring chicken! Hooray!