So we live on a small farm..we have chickens, ducks, a donkey, dogs, barn cats and we are getting 2 goats in 5 days~ fainting goats to be exact! There is always so much animal drama here! I kid you not, it almost has become so comical that I can’t not tell you about it. Last Friday, one of our chickens we named pigee because well she looks like a pigeon got attacked by our male duck. This duck has been after her for a while but she usually manages to escape him. We last Friday that was not the case, she just wasn’t fast enough. My daughter and nephew went out to the chicken coop to fill up their waters and feed them and that’s when they found our favorite little chicken mangled. Her poor little face and head were very messed up. I won’t go into details because I can’t even handle it. We immediately grabbed her and brought her in the house.. I know gross.. but farm life is well.. another thing hahaha…
We got all the different stuff out to begin to try to clean her up and hopefully save her life! I was trying to clean her off and I don’t handle gross things or blood at all. I was trying my best to be strong and I had to take the chicken outside to get myself some fresh air and sit down. My daughter looks at me and said “maybe I need to take over you are very very pale” which is usually the case in these situations. So thankfully she took over. We got her as cleaned up as best we could, got a small portable dog kennel and waited for my husband to get home which is usually what I do when things are gross.. 🙂
We have been very faithful for the last week of keeping her very clean and putting a couple different medicines on her and giving her water with probiotics in it and keeping her little kennel very clean. We weren’t sure if her eyes were going to survive the attack. I will let you imagine what her face looked like using that information. We were cleaning her yesterday afternoon and my daughter said “mom I just don’t think she has an eye in there”. I said “I believe she does and it’s just swollen”. I have been praying over this chicken since Friday. I tend to pray and believe for God to heal my animals and honestly God must really love me a lot because they usually survive. I have countless stories of our animals that should be dead but God heals them! That’s a whole different blog. Anyways back to her eye.. We got her all cleaned up and put her back in her little crate and that was that. We went to dinner last night and came home and got ready to take care of the chicken and we pulled her out and bam there was her eye! All the swelling went down which is crazy because it was huge and I kid you not all the swelling was gone and her eye was there! Both of her eyes are still there! She is healing so great and I honestly can’t believe it. I believe in the power of prayer..I know it’s a chicken but I believe God loves us enough that he cares about what we care about, to come down and heal even our little chicken.
I would love to post a picture to show you what we were up against but that would probably be a very horrible idea..you’re welcome 🙂 For now just know little pigee is doing great and I can’t wait to watch her run around again..don’t worry she won’t be with that duck anymore. I’m considering making her her very own chicken house and getting another little bantum chicken just like her to be her friend.
The moral of this story is nothing is too big or little for God. What things have you prayed for that are so random that it had to be God? I would love to hear them!
Gina Marie 