I hope everything is okay Mom2!
Well, Nugget lives another day.
His "friends" plucked more feathers from the back of his head today...so he will not be rejoining them anytime soon.
I was telling BF that I thought he would have to be culled... I felt awful and guilty saying: "I don't have time to sit and force feed him."... I do... So I did...
Only this time, (I had an adult drink and...) I slipped a long sleeve from a shirt over him and stuck his head out the hand hole. It was nice and tight around his wings and I could stuff his feet inside so he couldn't kick/scratch my hand away. Nugget got all of his medicine and baby cereal with some maltomeal. His crop FINALLY felt like it had something in it!!!
I used a baby medicine dropper to shoot the mixture down his throat.
I unwrapped him and put him in a smaller tub with pine shavings and put him under the heat lamp. I worry about him injuring his wings when he flaps uncontrollably in the larger box.
I have a neighbor that has a business that is all about natural healing. She had environmental/ heavy metal poisoning and was so super sick. I am going to ask her if she has any selenium for Nuggeter. Why didn't I think of that sooner?
My son said his ears were bothering him again
We just got done with antibiotics for a double ear infection... I look in his ears and they are full of ear wax. I carefully warmed some vit E and filled one ear while the other was on a warm rice pillow. I have a tool from the doctors office with a little circle on the end of it and gently dug a few chunks of wax out! Then I had him turn over and did the same to the other, which was much better than the first. Had him roll over again and put more warm E in and massaged around his ear and ditto to the other. When I was done he said they felt much better and he didn't touch them for the rest of the day!
I don't want him to get tubes! Please don't let him have to get tubes!