We got some medicine for Millicent. It’s two different versions of quinine. You know, the stuff in tonic water? The stuff they give people for malaria? Well, she’s on it. It’s supposed to be incredibly bitter. dAhub and I have been joking that we should give her little gin and tonics. Do you think a chicken would like them with a twist of lime?
For the next several days I have to chase her around, catch her, force her beak open and squirt the stuff in. Then I have to close her beak and wait for her to swallow. How to tell if a chicken has swallowed? Beats me. I just wait several seconds and hope that she swallowed. Then I let her go and she runs over and tells Rosie how awful I’m being to her.
Oh poor chooky – I’m not sure how you tell if a chicken has taken her medicine or not, but hopefully she is allowed to watch daytime soaps while wallowing on the sofa and supping hot chocolate while leafing through catalogues (works for us if we’re not well, not that we have ever had avian malaria), get well soon Millicent