OMG! Just when you think you've solved all the immediate problems for the Coop Community residents! Well.......NOW I know why so many of "the girls" are lounging INSIDE the barn, even on a beautifully glorious sun-shiny day!!
SUNBURN!!!!!! Yep, you heard right! Who'da'thunk it??
If you've been following the chickens saga......you'll know that many of my girls were missing feathers, due to the brutal treatments by the excess of roosters. Their feathers are FINALLY beginning to grow in again, but many of them still have very large bare spots. (see photo at right) This is Ophelia. She is one of several with embarrassing baldness. You'll see, she has quite a large unfeathered area! Now imagine it beet red and sunburned!!
What am I to do?? If I opt for sunscreen, which brand?? If I use a tropical smelling coconut-ty one, will she smell like FOOD and get eaten by the others?? Will this sweet smelling sunscreen attract gnats, flies, and such, which would be a HUGE annoyance to her?? Not to mention that the other hens would inadvertantly peck HER, while trying to get the flies & gnats! WTD? WTD? Should I get oil or lotion?? Maybe I could use the spray on type. That might be easier than wrestling her into a squat position, long enough to get the oil or lotion actually rubbed on. Yeah, I think spray will be the better option. OR......
Maybe I could make little chicken cabanas and cute little brightly colored, individual roosts to sit under little umbrellas!! Instead of a Dos Equis logo, we could use a Chicken Feed logo. We could feature a mariachi band on weekends. Heck, I could probably set up these little umbrella covered roosts over by the horse puddle (yeah, the horses dug it themselves so they could wallow in it on hot days!) Kinda make it a little chicken Oasis! It would give the girls the shade they need, while still allowing them to be outdoors without the fear of sunburn. And I think perhaps some
live entertainment might be just the thing to take their minds off their burned butts!!
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