Isn't it a wonderful feeling knowing they trust us. and it surely shows with Casey.
This is better than a comedy on TV. Made me laugh out loud.Update: Casey seems to be doing fine. With the mushroom treatment, she hasn't laid an egg in 3 days. Right now she has a little fold that I can see/feel on the back of her vent when I put on her cream that makes it look a little like an "outie" belly button, but it is all inside her and she is pooping fine (although the stinky is turned up extra high). I plan on taking her into the vet as soon as I can next week for a check up and to look at that fold and make sure it is OK. (Yvonne will be back to work, and I will have to see what time I have available. Right now it looks like Monday will be a day trip, but on the road, but I think Casey will be fine for 8 hrs in her dark fortress of solitude.) If all goes well, we might release her to the flock next weekend (once the weather warms up to "normal cold") today, it was -25F at 10:30am but the sun was out, and all the ducks were out in the straw, not in their house. Casey comes out every couple hours during the day for food and drink and a little socialization. Well just now, when we let her out, she stepped on the soup mug (with handle) that we had her food in. One foot square on the middle and the other half over the edge. I stabilized it by holding it and she just stayed there... So I lifted it off the ground and asked Yvonne if she would like a cup-o-duck. Casey just stood there. Neither one of us had our phones handy, so no picture. I finally set it back down, duck and all. She stepped out of the food, and into the other soup mug with C-O-B (Corn,oats,barley) that she had, then she stepped out of that and into her water cup. Boy was she being bratty! Finally, she put her bill in her water, then did some swimming motions... Ahhhhhhh! the dense humans finally got it, she wanted a bath (she hadn't gotten one today). Well now she's had her bath and is preening dry. Once she's dry, she will get creamed up and put back in the dark. She is really a good patient there. All the other ducks we have had in hate being alone, and object several times/day. She just rests and relaxes, then is engaging when she comes out. I think she would be a house duck in a minute if there was an opening.
Yvonne says hi to everyone and wanted me to tell @Miss Lydia and @Amiga that Casey decided she wanted soggy food all on her own. She has been dragging the water into her food cup to make it soggy all by herself.
LOL she must really shine by now.Yesterday I scheduled Casey for a follow up visit today and scheduled Allie for a checkup.
Why Allie, I'm gonna let you in on a little secret... She's the kid in school with the inhaler and the nasal voice. From the time she was a little 'ling, she always seemed to pant a bit. Not a lot where it was an immediate concern, but not quite "normal". When she was really small she had extra small nares - so small she couldn't even get a piece of crumble stuck if she wanted to. As she grew, so did her bill and her nares, but they never seemed to pass quite enough air. We checked her for puffy cheeks, or runny nares / eyes or abnormally red eyes (she is a Pekin, so she has a little of that bunny around the eyelid thing going on, but no more than Tevye) and looked inside her mouth, never found anything. When she was young we even got her some VetRX and wiped it on her bill/nares. It would give her very temporary relief. Everything seemed normal and she was otherwise happy and thriving, so we decided to see if she would grow out of it. She didn't. Don't get me wrong, she doesn't gasp each breath, but today when I put her in the tub, I could plainly hear her breathing. When I pick her up, I can hear her breathe. This isn't true with any of my other ducks and wasn't true of Snow, so I know it isn't typical. Since she is now up to her 10 lb cruising weight and we had been seeing the vet anyway, we decided it was time to have her checked just in case it was something more than a somewhat constricted air path. The vet listened to her heart and lungs and even the air going through her sinuses and said it all sounded normal. She looked at her eyes, nares and inside her mouth and said it all looked good. No signs of any bacterial or fungal infections. In that moment you couldn't really hear her breathe at rest either, so I lifted her up. When I do that, she hangs her head a little, then you can hear her breathe, so the vet knew I wasn't making it up. She said as far as she could tell Allie seemed healthy, but she would do some asking on "the vet version of BYC" (my words) and see if anyone thought different.
When I scheduled Casey, it was for a follow up. Casey seemed to be fine and in fact was getting a bit restless wanting not to be confined all day. Last night though she prolapsed again. She didn't have an egg, but I guess she was just irritated enough and inflamed enough and pushed hard enough that she popped back out. Now she had stayed together for 3-4 days with no stitches and no eggs so, the vet cleaned her up again and stitched her up again. If we can keep her from laying an egg for a couple weeks, then hopefully the stitches will keep her right-side-in and she will heal. I am supposed to take the stitches out in 2 weeks if all goes well. We also got some more of the anti-inflamatory and a different antibiotic, Doxycycline. And we still are applying her silver butt polish
