Healing Hens providing feathered therapy for seniors

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — During the COVID-19 pandemic, Jodi Wilterdink started her chicken coop.

“When everything was shut down, I thought, ‘well, what am I going to do?’ I can’t really work right now,” Wilterdink said. “So I went to Tractor Supply and thought, ‘Well, I’m going to just have some baby chicks.’”

That decision allowed her quarantine hobby to blossom into a life-changing form of therapy…

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