Hi all. Sorry I haven't updated. It's been a rough couple of days. The filly with the leg fracture that my friend rescued and brought to our barn had to be put down. This is strangely in keeping with the topic of this thread...High Dollar filly, big horse farm, casted something that should never have been done without plating it, pawned off on someone else to deal with the expense thinking to recoup her as a brood mare...The fracture was too severe to have been treated the way it was. They never even xrayed post casting to make sure she was aligned properly. I will spare you the gory details of what was under the cast. Suffice it to say I want to punch some one in the face.
On to the chicks...all respiratory symptoms have officially abated!!!!!!
Now I have blood tinged poop...
...yup you heard it here first, I cure a respiratory infection and now I have bloody poo. I don't see how it can be a coccidia infection, they have been on medicated food, have probios in their H2O (which doesn't treat coccidia I know). I am hoping it is just irritation from the high dose antibiotics and not some new symptom of the original illness.
They seem to feel well. Eating and drinking fine. They got to play outside in the 85 degree sunshine briefly yesterday. When they got tired, they walked over to where I was sitting on the ground and cuddle up next to me to nap. Poor hubby felt ignored. lol I told him if he would dropper feed them every two hours day and night, they would cuddle with him too. He has decided he is comfortable with being ignored.
They are such sweet babies! And apparently they love their fidma.
