Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

I don’t want to get my hopes up quite yet but there are some positive signs that Maggie may be turning the corner.
First off I caught her eating a little bit of commercial feed (starter/grower). Not a lot - just a few mouthfuls - but it is several weeks since she has eaten any commercial feed so even a little bit feels good.
Secondly on the morning coop cam video I saw her confidently jump up to the perch they like to use for preening parties. She made it in one jump and didn’t bother with the step in between that Diana used following her up. I don’t see any wobble! She hasn’t been above ground level for over a week.
Now set against that, her crop did not empty last night and I had to massage it to empty it this morning. We have found a way that works for both of us. She eats the coconut oil herself - she seems to think it is a treat. As long as I let her snack on coconut oil and some scratch and mealy worms between pummeling her she seems OK with the whole thing. It is throwing stuff down her throat she really doesn’t like.
Still, her crop not emptying is very worrying.
I am just hoping her general cussedness helps her pull through again.

This is really good news I'm so pleased

 

[Marie2020]

I think that they just want me out of here! I’m upsetting the nurses

that's my boy

 

[MaryJanet]

Skating on by.

She needs everyone to get out of her way please! She's coming through and she doesn't want to crash into folks and hurt them!

 

[Marie2020]

That. Including the bit about listening to the doctor!

Get real RC . Alex won't listen to anyone

 

[Marie2020]

Monday mug, it's a blurry Peggy! Getting a focussed shot of her is a rarity.

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Has she borrowed Alex's scooter

 

[Marie2020]

Hooray!!!!

 

[bgmathteach]

Ready or not, they are discharging me from hospital Today.

Wonderful!! I'm sure Jaffar and the ladies will be happy to spend some time with you (and you with them) Have some good food, relax, snuggle, and watch a movie.

Any diagnosis? How are you feeling (other than hungry & lonely)?

 

[featherhead007]

Yes, but actually no, they would be thrown away, they have to use pasteurized eggs, don't they? I think at least in the U.S. they do.

But I don’t have to eat that hospital crap now! I’m home, and collected 7 fresh eggs. And a big “welcome back home daddy” from all the chickens.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Yes indeed. I wonder if they could do the depot injections like they finally got for cats. That was a game changer!

I was looking that up. "Depo Medrol". That's some kind of prednisone, a steroid. What is your idea, that there can be an equivalent to an antibiotic or an antifungal in a shot, with some other drug? Or that prednisone might help? Or shoot in Enrofloxin (sp) or Nilstat? I really don't know about these things!

 

[featherhead007]

Get real RC . Alex won't listen to anyone

Did I just hear someone say something? No, I don't think I heard anything.