Look how full that crop is! You are doing a great job.
What a beauty! Will you have a fireplace in your new house Kris? It doesn't look as if you will be lacking in firewood.Ok catchup tonight... this is a quick coffee post before I head down to “help with the tree”. 4 hrs and they haven’t gotten fully through it yet. I have a vet appointment for Roostie, 5 phone calls and a good degree of begging later. Scheduled for Monday the 11th, and let’s just say I might not get the phone bill paid this month and I’m going to be advertising my eggs very soon... fingers crossed this vet is a great one, and not some speciesist “just a chicken” sort. Thank you @ChicoryBlue, after the 2018 Corridor debacle and the Duncan Vet that will see livestock but won’t make an appointment and is never available I had given up hope.❤
70 year old zen Buddhist with a Big chainsaw, who has been a faller since before several of us “younglings” have been alive (I’m pushing 40, and putting myself in the younglings category!) No perspective tricks here... she was a giant.
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That little bit of orange is the top of the Tractor on the other side of the tree! And DH (5’10ish) texting excuses last night about why my mom wasn’t coming for dinner...View attachment 2478724
That's scary! Thank goodness Jaffar is OK.Panic this evening! Hens and BLU went into the coop. But no Jaffar. I heard a panic chicken noise out by the front gate. Saw a stray dog in my yard. I searched everywhere for my roo, and found him cowering deep inside an overgrown willow. Jaffar is safe, no physical signs of injury.
He is shaken up though. Tomorrow will be a day of finding and reinforcing my perimeter fencing!
You are the best kind of sucker Kris.
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Jaffar is in with me tonight, (Tonight, i don't care who knows this) he’s got his own perch and I just want him near me, so I can keep a lookout for internal injuries. He is moving slower than usualPanic this evening! Hens and BLU went into the coop. But no Jaffar. I heard a panic chicken noise out by the front gate. Saw a stray dog in my yard. I searched everywhere for my roo, and found him cowering deep inside an overgrown willow. Jaffar is safe, no physical signs of injury.
He is shaken up though. Tomorrow will be a day of finding and reinforcing my perimeter fencing!
Ask me on Tuesday? So I called the ritzy vet that @ChicoryBlue found. Chickens are fairly new to their practice. It was looking promising until the “and have we seen your chicken before?” Question. So, they aren’t accepting any new patients, it’s a closed practice, and the receptionist boy almost hung up... “please, it’s a matter of life and death for this rooster right now? He’s a very sweet guy, and I really love him. Do you maybe have any other vets that you know will consider treating poultry?” It took him mere seconds on hold to get me a very short list, and no, the offices don’t advertise as chicken friendly... 5 more vets that might see chickens. I think the list was very ‘on hand’ as I said, finding a vet has been a big issue for me. I started at the top and the very last office I called will see Roostie. My very “pet” chicken. On Monday 11am. Fingers crossed until then.
Yes, I think so. I’m a bit concerned about that, too, but she’s starting to nibble a little here and there, so hopefully drinking is next.Look how full that crop is! You are doing a great job.
I find it a bit worrying that she isn't drinking for herself too. Could it be that she just isn't thirsty because there's enough liquid in the tube feed?
Um, yeah. That’s a beast.Ok catchup tonight... this is a quick coffee post before I head down to “help with the tree”. 4 hrs and they haven’t gotten fully through it yet. I have a vet appointment for Roostie, 5 phone calls and a good degree of begging later. Scheduled for Monday the 11th, and let’s just say I might not get the phone bill paid this month and I’m going to be advertising my eggs very soon... fingers crossed this vet is a great one, and not some speciesist “just a chicken” sort. Thank you @ChicoryBlue, after the 2018 Corridor debacle and the Duncan Vet that will see livestock but won’t make an appointment and is never available I had given up hope.
70 year old zen Buddhist with a Big chainsaw, who has been a faller since before several of us “younglings” have been alive (I’m pushing 40, and putting myself in the younglings category!) No perspective tricks here... she was a giant.
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That little bit of orange is the top of the Tractor on the other side of the tree! And DH (5’10ish) texting excuses last night about why my mom wasn’t coming for dinner...
Oh goodness, Alex! I’m so glad Jaffar is OK!Panic this evening! Hens and BLU went into the coop. But no Jaffar. I heard a panic chicken noise out by the front gate. Saw a stray dog in my yard. I searched everywhere for my roo, and found him cowering deep inside an overgrown willow. Jaffar is safe, no physical signs of injury.
He is shaken up though. Tomorrow will be a day of finding and reinforcing my perimeter fencing!
