Chickens Bertha (the very hugged chicken in the above photos) has sour crop (a kind of yeast infection), so she's inside for the next few days. No food today; hopefully everything will clear up and we can get her back out to the flock in a couple days with no trouble. Research Conference next week! I guess I should finish the poster for it, huh? I have at this point four projects going, which is about three more than I probably should have. But, at least it is all interesting and several things seem to be going directions. I am eternally grateful to the four-month-long checkout times from the university library because there's a lot of reading to do and sometimes it takes months before I get back to something.
I mean, chickens will happily eat chicken noodle soup and they'd probably love it but it's too salty to be healthy for them (and they should avoid chicken...other meat is fine, though)! She fasts today; tomorrow she gets regular chicken feed with some yogurt or other protein. Plus she always gets some of whatever I'm eating. I've seen her swallow whole penne noodles bigger than her head like it was nothing.
My use of the word "can't" was kind of presupposing that you wouldn't want to introduce your chickens to cannibalism as a primary source of nourishment. Maybe that was a bit hasty :) Honestly a little impressed by the penne noodles. She must be a powerful bird!