Frankenchicken

I have 11 chickens, 8 dogs and numerous Koi fish. Life with Chickens and dogs is interesting because we constantly need to keep them apart for obvious reasons. The chickens have a large fenced in area and the dogs are in the kennel until my husband comes to train/run them (they are sled dogs). Thus begins my story,

Meet Ariel the chicken. I named her Ariel because she is the only chicken who flies up and over the fence. She has been attacked twice already by the dogs but somehow escaped without as much as a scratch. Then there was the day my beautiful flower gardens were dug up by her......Now understand we have 30 acres for the damn bird to dig in but Noooooo, she wanted my flower garden. so that Sunday my husband and I set out to catch her and clip her wings. It must have been a hilarious sight seeing us running around like crazy trying to catch her (insert Benny Hill music here). Finally we cornered her and clipped her wings super short. Guess what? next day who's out in the yard again? Yup Ariel, I still have no Idea how she does it.

A few days ago I came home and My husband informed me that we have a problem. Ariel was attacked again by one of the dogs and it was a less than pretty scene. She was sitting outside the chicken fence behind the building. I went to go find her. She had been badly torn apart on her back side. I picked her up and started walking with her tucked under my arms. My husband asked what I wanted to do thinking of course I would say what any self-respecting livestock owner would say which is we will have chicken soup tomorrow.

I'm not really sure what kicked in inside of me but I knew I must save the annoying fowl. I grabbed my free button sewing kit given to me by the bank when I signed up and continued to sew her all up in multicolored string. Thus creating my own version of a frankenchicken. I then put her in a quarantine crate. I said if she survives the night I would glue the stitches together to make a better seal on the skin.

Next morning she is up and around a bit pissed off she is in a crate, hmmmm not bad. I then went to CVS to grab some more medical supplies and came back to clean her up and wash her off and do a better job at closing the wounds. I also started her on antibiotics and now we are 4 days in and she continues to get better. she even layed an egg last night! I'm thinking she will go back in the pen soon to Join her sisters. I'm convinced the bird has 9 lives! Her breed by the way is Rhode Island Red. I chose this breed because I am from Rhode Island and because they are supposed to be bad fliers LOL!