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TropicalChickies
Crowing
Butchie had another good day yesterday. No carbs. Just a hard boiled egg at breakfast and a scrambled egg for lunch. I'm also giving her little bits of coconut oil 2-3x per day (like 1/2 a tsp each). I hope she's getting enough to eat. Today I'm going to try a little sardines and see how she does with that. Her crop is working better, emptying on its own now. And then she asks for food and pecks at the ground. She was literally begging like a dog, so I let her forage for half and hour yesterday in an area where there are some soft green ground cover plants (like a creeping Jenny). She nibbled on those and it didn't bother her.
One thing I observed to be cautious about: Yesterday was her last day of ACS (Day 10) but I took the ACS water away in the morning and gave her clear water instead. She was having some small tremors in her head and trouble balancing. She didn't fall over, but I could clearly see her balance was off and her head bobbing. Immediately I thought that either looked like dehydration or heavy metal toxicity (or both). She was alert and fine to swallow, so I syringed her about 20ml of pure water with a sprinkle of poultry electrolytes. That fixed her up right away.
So my instinct is to continue to starve out the yeast and keep introducing probiotics back into her system. This morning, an hour or so after her breakfast, I mixed up some of the yeast buster formula in Two Crows article and gave that to her -- she loved it! I felt her lower belly after I gave it to her and could feel (and hear) gasses breaking up and moving. When I put her down, she expelled a wad of gooey creamy white stuff along with some poo. Better out than in, I say.
Anyway, it's great to see her coming back. If her intestines have damage or lesions, it will take time to repair (if they can), but her quality of life in just the past 48 hours has improved tremendously.
Thanks for your comment about my Celiacs. It's really not a big deal. The worst thing is when you don't know why you're sick all the time. But once I knew to stay away from gluten, I got better and stayed that way. One really good thing about living in South America is that bread and wheat foods aren't everywhere here like in the US. We rely on plantains, cassava, rice, quinoa and sweet potatoes for carbs -- all naturally gluten free. Flours made with these things are also cheap and available, so I can bake breads with them. It's fine.
Here's Butchie, completely acclimated to life with the dogs.
One thing I observed to be cautious about: Yesterday was her last day of ACS (Day 10) but I took the ACS water away in the morning and gave her clear water instead. She was having some small tremors in her head and trouble balancing. She didn't fall over, but I could clearly see her balance was off and her head bobbing. Immediately I thought that either looked like dehydration or heavy metal toxicity (or both). She was alert and fine to swallow, so I syringed her about 20ml of pure water with a sprinkle of poultry electrolytes. That fixed her up right away.
So my instinct is to continue to starve out the yeast and keep introducing probiotics back into her system. This morning, an hour or so after her breakfast, I mixed up some of the yeast buster formula in Two Crows article and gave that to her -- she loved it! I felt her lower belly after I gave it to her and could feel (and hear) gasses breaking up and moving. When I put her down, she expelled a wad of gooey creamy white stuff along with some poo. Better out than in, I say.
Anyway, it's great to see her coming back. If her intestines have damage or lesions, it will take time to repair (if they can), but her quality of life in just the past 48 hours has improved tremendously.
Thanks for your comment about my Celiacs. It's really not a big deal. The worst thing is when you don't know why you're sick all the time. But once I knew to stay away from gluten, I got better and stayed that way. One really good thing about living in South America is that bread and wheat foods aren't everywhere here like in the US. We rely on plantains, cassava, rice, quinoa and sweet potatoes for carbs -- all naturally gluten free. Flours made with these things are also cheap and available, so I can bake breads with them. It's fine.
Here's Butchie, completely acclimated to life with the dogs.