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post #3301 of 3426
6/20/12 at 10:47am

WOW! That is it... WOW! Just goes to show you...always ask for a second opinion :) thanks for the Picture!!!thumbsup.gif I may need to reference it in the future :) I hope your baby has a fast recovery!!!fl.gif

Happily married mom, with a wonderful 2 year old boy, many chickens, ducks, geese, and Great Danes on 50 acres with a pond and a old family home in south east Ga.... and trying to start a pick your own organic fruit farm :)  Visit our Great Danes at http://nightmagicpride.com/ We have blue European puppies several times a year :) and they all LOVE the chickens, ducks and geese!

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Happily married mom, with a wonderful 2 year old boy, many chickens, ducks, geese, and Great Danes on 50 acres with a pond and a old family home in south east Ga.... and trying to start a pick your own organic fruit farm :)  Visit our Great Danes at http://nightmagicpride.com/ We have blue European puppies several times a year :) and they all LOVE the chickens, ducks and geese!

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post #3302 of 3426
6/20/12 at 10:52am
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For those who are curious about how Spirit is doing, I have had some new developments with her. 

 

She has had a bad time the past couple of days with not being about to get up from a laying position as her legs will splay.  So, we schedule an appointment for this morning at 9am.  At our appointment, the vet said.... and I am quoting her chart notes:  "Hips starting to splay.  Advised quality of life will quickly become unacceptable; recommended euthanasia."  I asked her to refer me to another vet that she would consider a mentor, so she sent me to another place.  We met with vet #2 at 4pm.  This vet took xrays (1st vet has never offered and when asked by me she said unnecessary).  He determined hips are fine, but lower leg has rotated 90 degrees.  He said he could cast her foot to correct it, then break her leg and re-set it.  He thought prognosis was actually pretty good.  So, they put her under anesthesia and cast her foot.  Vet said he was surprised that there was nice flexion and he was able to almost fully correct it today.  She came out of the procedure really well.  She is now back home in her pen, walking around, eating and drinking well, preening and chatting away.

 

He also gave me a series of pictures of a sling to help ease the weight off her good leg, if she appears to be having a hard time.  Hubby is making a list and running to home depot to build it tonight, but so far she does not appear to need it.

 

We return in 5 days to remove cast and determine the next step.

 

Here is one of the pics he gave me with another gosling patient of his:

Ca_gosling_perosis_after_Sx_5-11_in_walker.JPG

 

That is so amazing and cool!

Amy Beth. Zoo Mom to Cats, Dog, Lizards, Ducks, Chickens and Geese. Ducks: Pekins, FW runners, WH, Buffs, Black Runner, Golden 300s and Silver Appleyards. | Chickens: Buff Orps,  French Black Copper Marans, Bantam Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, TJs Leghorns, Naked Necks and EEs. | Geese: Brown African | 

 

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Amy Beth. Zoo Mom to Cats, Dog, Lizards, Ducks, Chickens and Geese. Ducks: Pekins, FW runners, WH, Buffs, Black Runner, Golden 300s and Silver Appleyards. | Chickens: Buff Orps,  French Black Copper Marans, Bantam Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, TJs Leghorns, Naked Necks and EEs. | Geese: Brown African | 

 

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post #3303 of 3426
6/20/12 at 11:04am
Thread Starter 

Thank you!!!!  Here are pics from this morning of my wonder goose, Spirit.

 

spirit soft cast side view.jpg

spirit in soft cast.jpg

My menagerie includes 5 horses, 3 dogs, 4 cats, 32 geese (dewlap toulouse & african) and 10 ducks (muscovy, ancona, cayuga & silver appleyard).

NPIP Certified- #UT-179

Spirit's story: http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/725035/spirit-the-amazing-grey-dewlap-toulouse-gander/
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My menagerie includes 5 horses, 3 dogs, 4 cats, 32 geese (dewlap toulouse & african) and 10 ducks (muscovy, ancona, cayuga & silver appleyard).

NPIP Certified- #UT-179

Spirit's story: http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/725035/spirit-the-amazing-grey-dewlap-toulouse-gander/
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post #3304 of 3426
6/20/12 at 11:23am
She looks good. That's about what I described in the beginning. Glad you found a new vet who has ideas to correct.

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2013 waiting list ==== Our Swaps ==== Our Breeds (photos)
We CAN ship to VA (permit pending) & HI (permit required for each box)
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post #3305 of 3426
6/20/12 at 8:11pm

Hey Iain,  all she needs is a blue bandana to coordinate with her keen blue bandages!

 

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Originally Posted by Iain Utah View Post

Thank you!!!!  Here are pics from this morning of my wonder goose, Spirit.

 

spirit soft cast side view.jpg

spirit in soft cast.jpg

 

Why don't sheep shrink in the rain?

 

 

Why is there brail at drive up ATMs??

 

 

Why are their floatation devices instead of parachutes in my airplain seat???

 

 

If a tree falls in the woods and my husband doesn't hear it, am I still wrong????

 

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Why don't sheep shrink in the rain?

 

 

Why is there brail at drive up ATMs??

 

 

Why are their floatation devices instead of parachutes in my airplain seat???

 

 

If a tree falls in the woods and my husband doesn't hear it, am I still wrong????

 

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post #3306 of 3426
6/21/12 at 4:49am

In the very bad wind and rain last night a building rolled, and its babies subjected to the bad weather.  I've lost Luna, a buff, and a khaki.  (actually, maybe alive but not withen several acres of home now - no bodies of any but the drownded buff.)

 

My poor Luna.

 

Why don't sheep shrink in the rain?

 

 

Why is there brail at drive up ATMs??

 

 

Why are their floatation devices instead of parachutes in my airplain seat???

 

 

If a tree falls in the woods and my husband doesn't hear it, am I still wrong????

 

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Why don't sheep shrink in the rain?

 

 

Why is there brail at drive up ATMs??

 

 

Why are their floatation devices instead of parachutes in my airplain seat???

 

 

If a tree falls in the woods and my husband doesn't hear it, am I still wrong????

 

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post #3307 of 3426
6/21/12 at 4:58am

I am so sorry!!! maybe you will hear them calling for you...I have had it happen and I am always out listening for the 'missing' chick...most of the time I do not find it...but sometimes I will hear it off in the distance calling for me.... 

Happily married mom, with a wonderful 2 year old boy, many chickens, ducks, geese, and Great Danes on 50 acres with a pond and a old family home in south east Ga.... and trying to start a pick your own organic fruit farm :)  Visit our Great Danes at http://nightmagicpride.com/ We have blue European puppies several times a year :) and they all LOVE the chickens, ducks and geese!

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Happily married mom, with a wonderful 2 year old boy, many chickens, ducks, geese, and Great Danes on 50 acres with a pond and a old family home in south east Ga.... and trying to start a pick your own organic fruit farm :)  Visit our Great Danes at http://nightmagicpride.com/ We have blue European puppies several times a year :) and they all LOVE the chickens, ducks and geese!

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post #3308 of 3426
6/21/12 at 5:03am

I've been listening, and looking from the upstairs windows.  I hope I at least find Luna, she was  my special friend.

 

Why don't sheep shrink in the rain?

 

 

Why is there brail at drive up ATMs??

 

 

Why are their floatation devices instead of parachutes in my airplain seat???

 

 

If a tree falls in the woods and my husband doesn't hear it, am I still wrong????

 

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Why don't sheep shrink in the rain?

 

 

Why is there brail at drive up ATMs??

 

 

Why are their floatation devices instead of parachutes in my airplain seat???

 

 

If a tree falls in the woods and my husband doesn't hear it, am I still wrong????

 

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post #3309 of 3426
6/21/12 at 5:23am
Oh no Marty! That must have been some storm roll through. I hope you find Luna.

We are about to move a building here and have to hurricane anchor it and the duck and goose houses. Always a fun thing.

Celtic Oaks Farm LLC NPIP
Send us an EMAIL Like Us on Facebook Visit us on the web CELTICOAKS.COM
2013 waiting list ==== Our Swaps ==== Our Breeds (photos)
We CAN ship to VA (permit pending) & HI (permit required for each box)
Shipping live birds Article
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Celtic Oaks Farm LLC NPIP
Send us an EMAIL Like Us on Facebook Visit us on the web CELTICOAKS.COM
2013 waiting list ==== Our Swaps ==== Our Breeds (photos)
We CAN ship to VA (permit pending) & HI (permit required for each box)
Shipping live birds Article
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post #3310 of 3426
6/21/12 at 7:20am
Thread Starter 

OH NO!! Not Luna!!  sad.png 

 

So so sorry about her and the buff baby. hugs.gif

My menagerie includes 5 horses, 3 dogs, 4 cats, 32 geese (dewlap toulouse & african) and 10 ducks (muscovy, ancona, cayuga & silver appleyard).

NPIP Certified- #UT-179

Spirit's story: http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/725035/spirit-the-amazing-grey-dewlap-toulouse-gander/
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My menagerie includes 5 horses, 3 dogs, 4 cats, 32 geese (dewlap toulouse & african) and 10 ducks (muscovy, ancona, cayuga & silver appleyard).

NPIP Certified- #UT-179

Spirit's story: http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/725035/spirit-the-amazing-grey-dewlap-toulouse-gander/
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