Deb, that is very nice that your truck still has such good gas mileage.
BC, those ducks SHOULD be laying! Wave a hatchet at them... Maybe that will scare them into it.
Beer can, I wouldn't candle... Ah, the risk of explosion is low (though revoltingly horrible if it happens), i dunno, you don't wanna upset he though.... Is she in a safe spot though? Can chicks tumble down from where she is at?
Mini, it perpetually amazes me that you have so many ducks!
OK... Now my question....
What the doodle whap is going on?
One of my rose comb dark brown leghorns has something odd with her foot. I just noticed it today.
Maybe she isn't walking perfectly normal, or maybe she is... Not sure. However she clearly is NOT limping.
The outside toes, when she is walking around and scratching, are a bit rolled in, a bit on their sides, instead of all toes being perfectly flat on the ground.
When I had my son pick her up so that I could examine her, and she was no longer standing, one outside toe per foot totally curled in a bit like a gnarled claw hand.
The middle toe of one foot, though not at all bent, has one big swollen spot. (This was what I noticed today, and why I examined her).
I felt all over, and if the swollen spot is warmer, it is only barely tiny bit warmer.
The foot was dirty, duh, but I thought that it was clean enough that were there a bumble foot spot...I should have been able to see it.
I could find no spot that looked like a bumble foot spot, and I did feel all over.
I examined the other foot, and no swollen spot, but it too had one of the outside toes do a nasty curl, in a bit like a gnarled claw hand fashion.
Again, when she was walking the toes did not curl, they were slightly rolled, so she walked a bit on the sides, instead of the bottoms.
Photos in next post... I will have to post, look, edit and then comment on each one to tell you what they are.
