One sick chook...

A week or two ago, we noticed that the chooks' legs were looking a little scaly. Mel discovered that that probably meant they had mites, so we got some Pestene, which is supposed to get rid of them (the mites, not the chooks!). One of them was worse than the others and we had to separate it so that it wasn't hen-pecked to death (quite literally - chickens aren't nice to each other!). Unfortunately, it seems to have gone downhill... it hasn't eaten for a couple of days and is now very weak. Unless it starts eating soon, I think it will be shuffling off to wherever chooks end up when they stop breathing. I'm not particularly keen to accelerate that process, but it may have to be done - the poor thing is suffering :(