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Renata the booted bantam with swollen wattles following a tick bite

Renata and the Case of the Bulging Wattles:
A Chicken with a Tick Bite

Posted on February 27, 2024October 21, 2024 by Carra

This story begins with some bad, sad, hard news: in early December we lost one of our two sweet tiny twins to an in-coop hawk attack. More about “coop maintenance (super hard) lessons learned” to come. This left our sweet Renata a tiny gal without a tiny pal. Chicken body language can be ambivalent at…

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