He is really special. I watched what the vet did, and I could have done that, but not without different tools. I put really good tweezer thingys on my list for the weekend. I'll be unwrapping the foot on Thursday (if the tape holds -- he used white tape, so it will have to be cut off), and I'll try packing it again. He used iodine on the padding. He said he had had better luck with that than with antibiotic ointment.
He is doing fine today, but of course I can't see the foot for the tape.
Quote: I have found that if you loosen a jumbo cotton ball into its flat cotton state, you can make a doughnut out of it and put the hole under the ball of the foot to support the toes without putting pressure on the pad for the healing process. I put gobs of ointment on the pad of the foot first, then the cotton doughnut, then paper first aid tape to hold it on. I then use 1" strips of vet wrap to loosely wrap the foot until it's all covered but no tension is on the webs of the toes or any part of the foot, but so that it is all secure. This will last a month if you are in the finl stages of healing, but you should check it weekly if you're at the beginning.
Danz, no we didn't get to go to Legg's, I had called him on Friday to see if he had any peachicks left & he was totally sold out, I couldn't believe he had sold all of those chicks. He wasn't going to be in town & he said he doesn't allow people to come just to look at birds anyway due to a theft this summer. I guess nobody is immune to that if you let people come to your place. Anyway, that was kind of disappointing because I was looking forward to seeing all the colors he has, maybe in the spring he will have some but I don't know if they will be hatching in March or not, that's when I'll be going back up there to the Dr. again. I normally only go once a year, but he wanted me to come back in 6 mo. this time, I'm trying a new medication & he's talking about maybe putting me in a medical trial too, we'll see. I didn't get to meet the gal either with the little buck rabbit I wanted, she sold it to someone else when she knew I was coming up & I was planning to make arrangements to meet her, it made me angry. So now I'm in search of another buck for breeding, grrrr.
Chooks, those Orps are beautiful, I just looked at that guy's website! But man are they expensive too, I can't afford any more pricey birds this year, maybe next year. BTW, did you get your Ameraucanas from KarenS? I still can't tell the sex for sure on two of the ones I kept from this year. The black is really hard to tell sex on.
I was out looking at my little Swedish Flower Hen chicks earlier & I have several that are developing crests, they're so cute! I have one non-crested one that I think is really going to be pretty too, it's white with all the colors of spots on it. I keep forgetting to go out there with my camera & take some new pics.
Yes, his stuff is amazing, and it's sticker-shock, for sure, but well worth it to inject those genes into already good stock. It can improve American standard birds without making them too English.
Avery and Josie, so sorry about your lost hens. Josie - any thoughts as to what caused this death? It hasn't been a good news day around here, with Danz, Avery and Josie all losing a bird unexpectedly.
Renee - always good to hear from you when you get a chance to check in. The NQB8R sounds like an awesome deal but I can already picture DH's face if I came up with a way to incubate even more eggs than I can now. He's pretty tolerant of me setting a dozen eggs here and there (although he does like to warn that we'll run out of space to keep birds eventually) but I'm pretty sure he'd start looking into committing me involuntarily if I came up with a way to incubate a hundred or more at a time.
Yeah....hubby wanted to flog me when I built it...but I couldn't help myself!!
