Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

I know that I am still not feeling well, but I have all the prescriptions and support I need now, here at home.

 

[RoyalChick]

But the idea you have is right, it is a technology not a specific drug, when you say "depot injection" From wikipedia --

"A depot injection is a term for an injection formulation of a medication which releases slowly over time to permit less frequent administration of a medication. They are designed to increase medication adherence and consistency, especially in patients who commonly forget to take their medicine. Wikipedia"

Exactly.

 

[Ponypoor]

I just checked checked (craigslist
) around here too. No silkies period.

I might get a silkie Roo and breed my silkie hens next spring and get my silkie Cochin X to hatch them out for me.

 

[Ponypoor]

You think like I do… but I couldn’t get the pizza in past the guard.

You need to bribe one of the Nurses

 

[ChicoryBlue]

On the first day she showed lack of coordination she managed to get up to that shelf that Diana jumped up on and went into her usual upper level nest box for the night. I didn't witness that and have no idea how she managed it because she really was tipping over and was very wobbly.
Since then she hasn't tried to leave the ground and creeps into the lower level nest box for the night.
Tonight I was hoping she would go back to the main roost but instead she went back to the upper level nest box for the night.
She is safe from falling off the roost in the nest box - so that is good - but if she continues to improve her balance I will try and encourage her return to roosting.
And yes, inner ear infection was one possible diagnosis. I spent a lot of time watching her very closely and came to the conclusion that it probably wasn't an inner ear issue - she clearly was not dizzy. For example she had perfect aim even when she was toppling over.
My current theory is that she got some kind of vitamin or mineral deficiency when she stopped eating commercial feed which coincided with there being less rich forage because of the season. Another possibility is zinc toxicity and the vet said some tumors can have this effect (which would also perhaps explain the crop issue).
Definitely not out of the woods - but good to see her jumping up like that again.

I hope she keeps getting better. I have two additional cents on the inner ear possibility though. When I've had vertigo it hasn't interfered with my accuracy in grabbing things. It would affect my body orientation but not my ability to see where something was, even if visually the landscape was moving because of the vertigo, it was still positioned within the whole landscape. But she has no other symptoms of an infection like a swelling there, right? Probably it's not that.

 

[Ponypoor]

Sometimes it's better to ask for forgiveness than for permission

My boss and I coined that phrase I am sure! We would get stuff done, then ask for forgiveness for doing it 'outside the box'!

 

[BY Bob]

I hope you feel better soon, and that the doctors get to the root of the issue (and that it is imminently treatable!)

This.

 

[Shadrach]

It’s not Covid (I certainly can taste this lousy hospital food)!!

Consider myself lucky I'm not lying out in the street dying would be my first thought.

 

[rural mouse]

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.

Stuff like that sucks. Just like getting milk straight from the cow.

 

[RoyalChick]

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.

Who has to use pasteurized eggs? I didn’t even know that was a thing!