FoodKiller's chicken journal!

[FoodKillah]

May that chick rest in chicken heaven with the other chick that passed away... I hope "Afterpee" was waiting for them in the heaven yards door, to show them around and range completely free, so free that no alive chicken can be.

The third chick is gone too... how sad is that, that means that the chick passed away and that the alive chick will grow up alone. 2 bad things in the price of one. Not good event, it died almost in my hands, i prayed for it just before it pass away and i picked it up right after it passed away and i was staring at its beauty for several minutes..."we didnt make it" i said "we were so close" and "goodbye, have a good trip". I could see it was dying and i said some times "its ok be patient, its ok beautyful, relax" as the bird was laying there dying and started shaking a little every now and then, then it stopped breathing and the shaking transformed into spams, every now and then.. untill it completely stopped moving.

Well.......i dont feel very well because i just returned from the ship that my wife travels to her mother to see her, with our daughter. I will be alone for 6 days. I know it may sound stupid to some but its the first time i will not see my wife for more than few hours in the last 3 years and the first time i will not see my daughter daily ever. I dont know what hurts me more, the chicks deaths and the loneliness i doomed the alive chick to, or my own loneliness? I think everything adds to my own loneliness and makes me sad. Well.

HEYYYYY surviving chick i forgot about you still being isolated from nothing, i go to pay the attention i had to be paying all these days, to the little survivor, i hope that this will not kill it, hehehehe

A friend from Ireland use to tell me that "the grass is greener" meaning that you must never loose hope. A very old saying that people that traveled by feet use to say when they only got over the top of a huge cliff, to find out that there are more cliffs untill they get where they wanted, so they wanted to believe that the grass is greener over the next cliff and that gave them courage to move on.

Goodbye journal!

 

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

Poor little chicks...you gave them comfort and did the best you could which is what counts. I'm sorry you are lonely without your wife and child around! I know I miss my husband and kids while I am just at work, so 6 days must be tough. Think of how happy they will both be to see you upon their return!

 

[FoodKillah]

That punk the quail just had a crap on my shoulder.

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I was bored and i decided to let the rabbit and the quail free inside the house to roam, the rabbit was eating and gave that look to the quail by accident, then the quail went very close to the rabbit and stared her inside her face like saying "are you lookin;at me?", what a bad guy he is.....then i caught him and tried to pet him.. lol he was biting me, it didnt hurt

but it was funny a tiny bird trying to intimidate me. Then i turned him upside down in my hands and he fell asleep

how tough is that? it isnt. Then he was relaxed and i put him on my shoulder... and he IMMEDIATLY had a juicy crap that dropped all over my clothes and reached the ground making a noise like hmm... like... hmm.. like a quail poop fell on the floor you know.

I am trying to teach him to get in and out of the cage with my order, but i think i cannot. Except that crap part, he has learned how to stand on my hat and shoulder while i am walking away and stay there (not outdoors, yet). I wish i could trust this bird so i can let it free-fly-range and come back so it doesnt get eatten by the cats or hawks. I regret buying it, it would be with other quails right now, or eatten, but its stuck here with me locked up, so i want it free. I am not sure how long they live i think 1-2 years and mine is about 1 year old (i bought it 8mo) so it will soon die, at least if he flies around a little i will feel much better.

He has grown too much, i think its the fattest quail that exists, snorts and falls of the roost while sleeping because he is a giant. I like him, but i dont think i would ever buy another quail or other, flying creature. My chickens are more than enough, provide me eggs, fun, company and help when i am gardening and surely enough mess. The quail does nothing just hangs out in his cage and exists

By the way my little chick is doing fine, its a perfect pooper and does a great job eatting non-stop. The hens are fine too. The rooster spreads his wings too much, all the time, i think he is very very very dominant in his territory. If he ever makes a move against me or my family we will have a nice roasted rooster for dinner and i will still stab him with the table knife HARD after he is cooked. He doesnt trust me too much, i try to tame him but he seems to proud or just wild. Thats propably how a rooster should be.

Goodbye journal!

 

[FoodKillah]

Long time no see, dear journal.

My chicken news will follow but first i want to state that i am gone because my little daughter (18months old) is in the hospital with urinary track infection of E.Coli. She lost some weight that will be hard to gain at this age and was so dehydrated when we went to the emergency in the hospital that they had to feed her through injection bottle (sorry i have no clue how its called in english). They could not find a vein either and my little baby suffered for 45 minutes in a room with 3 doctors that i would be glad to kill anytime, they finally found a vein after telling us that its not possible to find a vein and they said they were going to feed her with those little plastic pipes through the nose!! SHOCK. We agreed because they said she was in very bad shape and had to get hydrated in 12 hours or... i dunno what!! The doctor was an idiot girl with no experience and so were the nurses. I hope the ultrasound exams of kidneys tomorrow will be clear and i hope they will let my family out of that JAIL of deceases! I didnt sleep in the night to keep my baby from turning around the hospitals baby bed because she could harm herself with that needle in her little arm and except that they would have to torture her again to find another vein. I am home now to get some rest and bring in the dirty clothes and all that hospital staff you have to do when you are in it. My wife havent left the hospital at all, its only 4 days in the hospital but the infection was started 2 weeks before we went. How could we know that fever with no symptoms and lose of appetite was not the new teeth that keep jumping in my daughters mouth. Thats what we thought

Its our first baby and we didnt know. We only gave her paracetamol for the fever for the last 1 week before we went in the hospital.

PLEASE BYC BUDDIES DONT COMMENT ON THE ABOVE PARAGRAPH OR ABOUT THE INFECTION AT ALL, i posted it for my personal log in this chicken journal. Everything is ok now and we will get out of there by tomorrow, hopefully. I will update my journal again when we get out. I feel better now that i know what microbe was infecting my daughter and knowing that she has been taking antibiotics that kills that microbe and she is in very good shape right now.
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Journal update!

Now today, that i came home from the hospital, it was still daytime and before i eat or rest the first thing was to let that chickens free range

i took my grilled chicken that my sister brought me in the hospital (i cant eat in there!!!! no appetite) and i brought it out in the yard next to the treats that my chickens was eating and we all had a nice dinner. Why dont the chickens eat those crappy pre-cooked fried potatoes that those fast foods use? They HATE them, but they do like OUR fried potatoes. I mean not even the chickens eat them, and we humans do? What is going on with that potatoes, they taste fake, are they? Well...

There were only 2 eggs layed in the coop!!!! Someone stole my eggs OR the hens ate the eggs they layed and just left 2 for me. The rooster showed me his wings again and i started chasing him around the yard (i was playing, he wasnt!!) until he managed to bite my hand that is now swallen and hurts if i touch it

. After he bit me i decided the whole flock should be tested for mites (THEY HATE IT).Rooster first!

I grabbed him and turned him around with his back on the ground while holding his head keeping his eyes in the dark so he relaxes and then with the other hand searched for mites or any bugs in his feathers. Nothing seen, i did that to all 4 hens as well, they seem clean.

I also took the little chick i hatched outside for the first time to walk the ward, it walked a little around the yard and picked up some things of the ground and ate them, felt comfortable around the other chickens and loved the open area. UNTIL........ that rooster want it to "check out" the little chick by mating it!? He TRIED but i was faster and took it back inside the brooder, TIME OUT chicky, your father seems to have a weird character and i dont want him to hurt the chick i hatched.

The rabbit was very hungry and had a brave portion of rabbit hay to forgive me for not being around the house to take care of it. Poor rabbit. I am glad its still alive!

Now after making that post i will keep checking things around our abandoned and cold home, i have left some projects in the middle, tools are all over the place and the house is in the state that was before we rushed in the hospital, there is even rotten things in plates. SAD situation. I hope we all get back soon. Its too quiet right now, no noise, no laughter, no fun, expect the animals making some noise. This house is color-less without my daughter and wife.

PS1: Please BYC dont start "i am sorry for that infection" and that kinds of stuff. Pray instead for my daughter to heal completely fast and return home asap, but without posting anything about it, i ask this as a favor because i feel better but we still have to go through this ultrasound so its not completely over. I do know everything about the infection and i dont want to hear anything more about it anymore from anyone, you might have had experienced a similar situation, if you feel you want to share it then send me a PM but dont take over my thread with your experiences because if you have them then you know its a very sad situation and this after all its just my chicken journal thread. I will read my PMs when that sad adventure is completely over and i will respond too but i would not like to have more than 2 posts about it in my thread. This is the first post and the next will be when we get out of there.

PS2: I made some connections in the hospital, weird huh. I might be buying PIGS soon!! Not alot just 2....

we do need 2 pigs in our yard, dont we??????????????

PS3: I finally met someone in real life that has build an incubator and we talked about all that stuff. Time passed easier and happier with that conversations.

When something goes wrong in a family, everyone is equal, i made friends immigrants, gipsies and all kinds of people i normally dont bother about their existance. Everyone feels the same when a child is sick or in pain. I have gained a different way of thinking about all those people i met and i cant wait to see them again some day, not in the hospital but in the street, to say "hey my friend, how is your lovely family doing today"

Goodbye journal. I hope i update you tomorrow when we all get back home with the good news that the infection is over for good and the kidneys will look healthy as new. I really hope to. See you soon!

 

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

Is all I will say about what you asked we not talk about.


I am so happy your lone survivor chick is doing so well! You know what happened today with my flock? I introduced a young rooster into a flock of ladies and one hen decided she was the "head roo" and side stepped at him (much as your rooster did to you) and next thing I knew they were in a full on battle for supremacy! This is a young and smallish roo and a slightly larger and mean hen and finally he put her "in her place". Don't think there will be much romance any time soon though.

Maybe your chickens aren't laying well because you were gone? Chickens are creatures of habit, and when their circumstances change, they don't always adapt well...maybe they missed you?

Hope to hear from you again soon...glad your pets were all fine when you got home!

 

[FoodKillah]

BigDaddy'sGurl :

Is all I will say about what you asked we not talk about.


I am so happy your lone survivor chick is doing so well! You know what happened today with my flock? I introduced a young rooster into a flock of ladies and one hen decided she was the "head roo" and side stepped at him (much as your rooster did to you) and next thing I knew they were in a full on battle for supremacy! This is a young and smallish roo and a slightly larger and mean hen and finally he put her "in her place". Don't think there will be much romance any time soon though.

Maybe your chickens aren't laying well because you were gone? Chickens are creatures of habit, and when their circumstances change, they don't always adapt well...maybe they missed you?

Hope to hear from you again soon...glad your pets were all fine when you got home!

No, no romance between those two, but rape is on the way!!

I am sure that this rooster will make your pecking order's top hen look like a mess soon. Time is on his side

If you see the Dinosaur..oh i feel sorry for that hen. She always tried to resist to my now huge rooster, but he seems to remember how she treated him when he was still "chickie" she stopped pecking him when he rapes her but doesnt not like him at all. She is missing so many feathers and her skin looks very red, i think its because of the roosters rapes lol, also she has wounds on her head every now and then made by his beak. She might be going through that "molt" phase, not sure if i said molt correct. Anyway i will not be surprised if she dies soon she looks like a mess. The other hens that dont resist him look fine, especially the baker.

Habit yes, do you really think it maybe because they dont see me around? Or because i didnt collect the layed eggs or something? I havent think of the habit thing you might be right. I hope they keep those missed eggs to share them with me when we are all back for good

its actually the first time since i got them (even the first two) that i get only 2 eggs in 4 days and the weather is almost like summer, its weird, they are very good layers that layed 3-4 eggs when the temperature was 0-3 and some snow was falling in the middle of the winter. And dont forget where i house them, you cant even call it a coop. Something that just crossed my mind is that it might also be because they didnt free range to eat snails bugs stones and all the nutrients they need to make the egg shell, but then again, they didnt free range in the middle of the winter too, who knows.​

 

[lovinlife]

I'm resisting the urge to say anything about your situation other than you're in our prayers.

As for the chickens, it could be that they aren't laying as well because they are molting. Hens look like crap when they molt and egg production goes down.

We animal lovers have an advantage when it comes to healing our heart pain because our animals give us something special. Nothing heals better than some time spent watching our flock/herd/pack do what they do. You're a lucky man.

 

[FoodKillah]

We are back home tonight

only one last urine test to do to check up how the medication worked out. They didnt actually let us out... we had only 1 other baby in our room in the hospital (they was going to let us both out tomorrow because our (kids) infections was over)and an empty bed which they (nurses) decided it was right to bring a very sick kid that coughed more than the eldest man in the world. I went in the doctors office and told him that we will leave and i signed and we left with my responsibility. Tomorrow we go back for the urine test in the morning and then this adventure is over. The ultrasound today showed that because of some genetic difference in the kidneys my daughter is prone to that kind of infection since birth and we will just have to make urine test when a fever appears and thats all about it.

While i was in the hospital one of my brown hens (dont know which) escaped and my sister was at my house to give instructions to some workers and saw her and was chasing her trying to get her in the coop. My sister does not like chickens like me. It was funny to hear the story from my frustrated sister, she said something like "lilly was on one side, i was in the other side with a cane and we was chasing a brown hen all around the yard to get her in the coop, but she didnt know me and didnt want to get in the coop" i was laughing hearing the story, "ITS NOT FUNNY" she said, that was even more funny.

lovinglife its true, that time spent with my hens was like.. honey, if that makes any sense.

 

[lovinlife]

Makes goal sense. Honey is a good word to use. Glad you're all home and I hope the healing continues.

 

[StormyMoon]

I just found this topic and read all the way from the beginning till the end, I have to say this is the best journal to read!
I laughed, I cried , I laughed again especially about the quail poop lol........that was really funny!

I hope your daughter is all well now, children sure do give us a run especially when they are too little to talk. I have 5 children of my own they keep me on my toes.
Your a great chicken dad

you have so much love I couldn't stop reading your posts...
I look forward to reading more of your journal, and I hope to see more when you incubate more babies...