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[Chaos18]

Hope they are all there in the morning. Hope the kitty gets better.

 

[BullChick]

~sigh~ crazy night here

Got home from work, checked on my broody and chicks first thing. They were all safe and sound, no more escapees. Yay.

However, came inside and started dinner prep when I realized one of my cats wasn't in his usual spot. My daughter and I started looking for him and finally found him curled up hiding in a corner. Called my vet - she met us at the clinic and had to do emergency surgery to keep his bladder from rupturing. Ugh. His 3rd surgery this summer. He's out of surgery now but will stay in ICU a couple days.

Came back home, could not get chickens to come out of trees and off top of coop so they are just out for the night.

I hope you have pet insurance. It saved me so much!!
I do hope this is the last issue you have with the cat.
Sometimes it's just not worth trying to catch the chickens.

 

[Pensmaster]

Our new batch of chickens got here today, and we already lost one....
Cackle hathery sent me a ton of EE chicks. Not a single one died, plus, they sent a spare.

mypetchicken sent NO spares, and one already died, and a bunch of them were lethargic when they got here... can't figure out what the difference was.

Not sure either. Was it hotter this time? Like Abi says. Transportation difference.

 

[daxigait]

@Sally SunshineI don't have a pictute before, but prior to the dry treatment it looked perfectly normal. Like I said till I went to milk her when I pulled her kid it looked even and fine, but it did not feel normal. Here is the damaged udder, and the blow out in the front. When it started enlarging after the treatment it should have been dealt with, but I was told to treat it and leave it. I did not know it was going wrong till it was really wrong because the case of mastitis I had seen before was larger than the others and remained so till a new kid.

@kwhites634Your build looks great.

 

[Lucky Lemon]

No pet insurance... It's been an expensive summer!!!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

No pet insurance... It's been an expensive summer!!!

I hope you're cat recovers quickly without any issues and is done with all the surgeries. Poor thing!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

GRAPHIC PHOTOS BELOW (sorry, I couldn't figure out the spoiler alert thing) Disaster struck today. Two of my welbar pullets managed to get into the turkey pen. I found the gap under the fence and fixed it. Both girls are ok at the moment. They must've been running from the turkeys and got themselves wedged between a tree and the chicken wire. The turkeys couldn't get them there but they were pinned and the rest of the chicken flock must've started picking at them. The one was lucky and only has the tip of her one wing chewed up. Not too bad either. THIS one though, I thought she was dead when I found her. She must've wiggled her head through the chicken wire, trying to get out, which made it a target. She was dripping blood all down her face when I found her and was limp, like she'd given up completely. I even saw her get pecked and she didn't even move. I didn't get a picture of her before I treated her but it was horrific. Her skin is completely ripped from the top of her head, the whole way down the back of her neck and the muscle was even missing a couple chunks. She was picked completely bald and the skin on the right side of her head was pulled forward towards her face, exposing her ear and part of her eye. I cleaned her up the best I could and made some makeshift stitches with a needle and heavy thread. It took 6 of them to pull the skin together down the back of her neck. Her left eye is still good and she'll open it and look around but she's sleeping a lot and not moving much. I know she can though because I took her outside to bluekote her head and an escaped turkey came over to see what was up. She went into a panic trying to escape. Her right eye concerns me. Though it doesn't look like there's any damage to the eye itself, The muscles to open and close her eyelid are most likely torn and ruined. Right now, her eyelid on that side looks stretched back a little since I had to pull her skin back some to connect it with the stitches. I'm using an eyedropper to slowly give her vitamin water. Everyone, please wish me luck with her recovery. She's going to need it. The first 5 pictures were right after I cleaned her up and stitched her together. The last couple were a couple hours later, after some bluekote and rest.

 

[daxigait]

I FINALLY reached the NPIP people at 4PM. He's coming Friday morning to blood test my birds. It will be nice to get the new ones into permanent quarters and not carry carriers out to chicken tractors and ex pens every day. I'm too old for this.

Good news. I hope it goes well. I have considered NPIP, but I don't like all the information to the government. What is involved?

 

[bauerdog]

I have 2 cemani chicks out at day 20. The rest are driving me crazy. I can't see any pips, but I don't want to open the incubator and mess up the humidity. Hatching is fun, but stressful!

 

[daxigait]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Sorry I got a phone call just after my earlier post on as I got home. I went out to do chores and found my doe with a second opening in her udder oozing that crud. Between that, chores, and catching up I am just getting to it, and I really need to get to bed.