Derperella, the (weird) Faverolles, & Friends

[artsyrobin]

and bubbles is looking so good!!

 

[KayTee]

All that waiting, and my computer doesn't like Vine! I can see an image from each video, but it takes forever to try and load, and then just gives me a series of jerky stop-motion chickens, not a proper looping video.

I shall have to try and watch them at work tomorrow

 

[Veer67]

Oh my, Derp is so floofy, poofy, and adorable!

 

[chickenneighbor]

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Oh my, Derp is so floofy, poofy, and adorable!
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[MacTech]

Taking a quick lunch break. Here are some chicken videos for you!! [snip] Here's Bubbles, up and about in the yard! WARNING: Crowing!! You can see he is still stiff and his gait is not correct. Still, he is UP and not paralyzed (which he was this spring!). He is able to do all the things a rooster should, just a bit more slowly. (sorry for the thump halfway through, Coho flew onto my arm and thumped the camera with her wings!)

Watching Baron R. In motion, one word sprang to mind when I saw his gait, something that may explain his issues... Lyme... As in Lyme Disease, is it possible a deer tick could have fed on him and infected him with the Borrelia spirochete? We lost Dad last year to chronic Lyme due to it being misdiagnosed for two years, it was misdiagnosed as Parkinson's, Lyme has been called the "great imitator" as it can mimic many other illnesses, lameness, temporary paralysis, and difficulty walking and moving are common symptoms, it would also explain the difficulty you've had diagnosing it On a lighter note, it did look like the Baron studied at The Ministry of Silly Walks... [VIDEO]

 

[Nambroth]

Watching Baron R. In motion, one word sprang to mind when I saw his gait, something that may explain his issues...

Lyme...
As in Lyme Disease, is it possible a deer tick could have fed on him and infected him with the Borrelia spirochete?

We lost Dad last year to chronic Lyme due to it being misdiagnosed for two years, it was misdiagnosed as Parkinson's, Lyme has been called the "great imitator" as it can mimic many other illnesses, lameness, temporary paralysis, and difficulty walking and moving are common symptoms, it would also explain the difficulty you've had diagnosing it

Thank you for your thoughts! I, too, am sadly familiar with Lyme and have studied it quite a bit. I have had chronic Lyme since I was 10, as I contracted it before the local doctors really had any idea what it was or how to treat properly. I am actually having a particularly week with the arthritis in my hand which is making working on painting very frustrating.

Lyme in chickens is very hard to figure out. I could never find any clear answer on if chickens see any symptoms from Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme). The only thing I could find was a study to see if experimentally infected chicks could cause infection in ticks (essentially be carriers) and even under those circumstances it seemed that the infection in a chicken was short-lived. My vet cautioned me that the nature of experimental infection in such research should not be used to come to a conclusion that chickens can suffer from Borrelia burgdorferi.

Poultry can be be infected with another spirochete, Borrelia anserina, which causes Avian spirochetosis. Signs/symptoms don't really match up, however, and are much more likely to be seen in areas where fowl ticks live (they are the main vectors), and we don't have them, thankfully.

I am not ruling out the possibility of Lyme; truly, there are no clear answers. But even if it was, we did hit him with a strong course of antibiotics right after he developed full paralysis, and that is about the only treatment option for a bird at this time.

 

[MacTech]

I'm sorry to hear Fud Lady is dealing with those horrid Lyme spirochetes, it's a nasty disease, as I'm sure you're aware....

When Dad was fighting it, he went through every modern medical procedure with no success, nothing would work, and the doctors in our area were merely chasing symptoms and doing what we computer techs call "shotgun repairs", throwing parts at the problem until it goes away, even if it does fix the problem, you don't learn anything, and you don't know what actually fixed the problem...

The only thing that seemed to help dad with fighting off Lyme was an "alternative" medical procedure was "Nano Silver", a variant of the "colloidal silver" treatments, the silver particles are much smaller than traditional CS treatments...

I'm technically minded and cynical, and I knew that CS is generally considered quackery at best, and possibly harmful at worst, and there's no logical reason it should work, if anything it should make things worse, but in Dad's case, it actually helped, he made more progress on NS than on the modern "big pharma" "medications", in Dad's case, it actually helped him, but it wasn't enough to cure him.

Okay, enough non-Derpy content, I was thinking earlier about Derp's "invisible chicks" period, we all know Derp's is rather.... Unusual, in a great and endearing way, so, perhaps her chicks were actually not invisible, but simply existing in a dimension that we limited humans are unable to perceive, her chicks (and by now, teenage chicks) are actually there, just Dimensionally Shifted and not perceivable to anyone else except Derp?

I'm pretty sure phase-shifted chicks make perfect sense in the Derpyverse.

 

[drumstick diva]

So nice to see Baron again and Derp

 

[scratch'n'peck]

Oh, I wish the real world we as simple and magical as the Derpyverse (new term coined by
@MacTech ) but we can aspire to see the world through her eyes of wonderment even if just for a moment.

PS I'm sorry to hear that painting has been frustrating with arthritis, especially during what is probably a very busy period. You probably have already tried something like these grip aids considering that you have been coping with Lyme disease for so long http://www.thewright-stuff.com/more-comfortable-writing-with-arthritis/

 

[KayTee]

I was thinking earlier about Derp's "invisible chicks" period, we all know Derp's is rather.... Unusual, in a great and endearing way, so, perhaps her chicks were actually not invisible, but simply existing in a dimension that we limited humans are unable to perceive, her chicks (and by now, teenage chicks) are actually there, just Dimensionally Shifted and not perceivable to anyone else except Derp?

I'm pretty sure phase-shifted chicks make perfect sense in the Derpyverse.

Phase-shifted chicks

why didn't I think of it before? It makes such perfect sense!

But then again, anything makes sense in the Derpyverse! (Love the word, MacTech!)

Oh, I wish the real world we as simple and magical as the Derpyverse (new term coined by
@MacTech ) but we can aspire to see the world through her eyes of wonderment even if just for a moment.

Fishnet - that's a new one for your Derptionary - how many Derp words are we up to now?