Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Good man!

Thanks Bob

 

[BY Bob]

Another Lap Visit Tonight

 

[featherhead007]

Another Lap Visit Tonight

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She’s living up to her name LADY Featherington!

 

[BY Bob]

She’s living up to her name LADY Featherington!

She is a darling.

 

[featherhead007]

I have Dakota in with me. And I just played that “Techno-chicken song from YouTube. (She actually moved her head to the music! (Silly bird)

 

[bgmathteach]

Stay of execution
Here is a short update on my beloved Bella Dracula. She has not been doing well at all. I think I already posted that she had stopped eating and drinking and I had decided to tube feed her. My thinking was that she is young and has a known viral infection which will most likely pass.
All was going well though she was dropping weight and getting weaker.
Then her crop started to slow and I couldn't tube feed her if her crop was already full without risk of aspiration. So she was getting less food and fluid. She has become physically very weak but mentally all there and interested in her surroundings and chatting to her buddies.
On Sunday I brought her in for a few hours because it was so unbearably hot. She delivered a quite normal poop and was interested in eating frozen corn kernels. I started to hope again.
Then Monday all action stopped. No reduction in crop size overnight or during the day and no poop. I resolved that if that was still the case this morning I would take her to be euthanised because starving to death did not seem like a humane way to die.
Sure enough early this morning there had been no poop overnight and her crop was the same size as on Monday and Sunday night with nothing having gone in.
As soon as the vet opened I made an appointment for her to be euthanised. I would be able to do it myself if she were in extreme pain - but when I pick her up she perks up and looks around and sometimes grooms my hair or my shirt. I didn't trust myself not to waver.
Appointment made I went back to the Chicken Palace to give her her 'last meal'. She had pooped and her crop was a little bit smaller. So I called the vet back and said I wasn't sure and I just needed her help with the decision.
Off we went. I opened up the cardboard box at the vet and Bella periscoped up. She devoured more corn and a treat the vet offered her.
The vet said, I think she needs more time.

Nobody get excited by this - I have been there 3 times already this last week - the difference here is I made it all the way to the vet.
But for now, Bella gets to live another day.
I on the other hand am completely exhausted with the stress of it all.

What day is it??? I'm sure she still has time....not yet day 34....and she has the will....

so glad she is a fighter!!! and so sorry you are going through this tramatic experience!

 

[RoyalChick]

What day is it??? I'm sure she still has time....not yet day 34....and she has the will....

so glad she is a fighter!!! and so sorry you are going through this tramatic experience!

Not yet 34. But if her digestive system shuts down she will die of dehydration even if the virus is dormant.
I will continue to take it day by day. I will be sooo happy if she poops over night.

 

[LozzyR]

Ok - how do I search by persons name? For comments?

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If you can remember a word or phrase in someone’s post (will need to be slightly unusual otherwise you’ll call up a hundred posts), type that in and the member’s name. The results will give you a preview.

 

[LozzyR]

Not yet 34. But if her digestive system shuts down she will die of dehydration even if the virus is dormant.
I will continue to take it day by day. I will be sooo happy if she poops over night.

 

[featherhead007]

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If you can remember a word or phrase in someone’s post (will need to be slightly unusual otherwise you’ll call up a hundred posts), type that in and the member’s name. The results will give you a preview.

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