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News from the urban homestead:
The biggest of the three little Bielies has passed away. No injuries. He disappeared a couple days ago, and I found his body yesterday. Not sure how he died, but I found him when I started moving stuff around the backyard. Think he may have died of heat when a plastic tote blew over him, and he couldn't get out from under it. It's the only thing that makes even the slightest sense.
Princess the BBW is definitely a jake. His feet have exploded in size (and the rest of him is catching up fast)! Boy's already passing up Major Tom as the big man on campus. He waited to show off his manly true colors until right after I named him. "Ta-da! I'm a boy, mom!" Looks like our boy will probably be Thanksgiving, too. After all the pain @jchny2000 and I have been through with BB turkeys, I don't want to wait until he needs to be put out of his misery to put him down. He's a sweet boy and loves us (for the moment, before those manly hormones may get the better of his darling nature) as much as a turkey can possibly love people (which is much more than non-turkey-owners can possibly understand), but the breed is just too tragic to make him linger in misery much past slaughtering age. I hope he makes it to Thanksgiving, frankly. Of course, I may wind up keeping him til Christmas... We all know me when it comes to putting off the inevitable with turkeys.
Little heritage bronze Pancake, my youngest's poult, looks to be a girl, and while she'd always been healthy until now, she's suffered a sinus blockage on one side this week. Looked like a feather had gotten stuck in her nose, but even taking it out didn't fully relieve the pressure and let her eat normally. We gave up nasal sprays and did the needlework yesterday. Injected saline into the cavity to loosen the goop, sucked out the goop, injected half a cc of Tylan 50 into it. Pressure is down a bit, eye's slear, and she's finally eating again!
The biggest of the three little Bielies has passed away. No injuries. He disappeared a couple days ago, and I found his body yesterday. Not sure how he died, but I found him when I started moving stuff around the backyard. Think he may have died of heat when a plastic tote blew over him, and he couldn't get out from under it. It's the only thing that makes even the slightest sense.
Princess the BBW is definitely a jake. His feet have exploded in size (and the rest of him is catching up fast)! Boy's already passing up Major Tom as the big man on campus. He waited to show off his manly true colors until right after I named him. "Ta-da! I'm a boy, mom!" Looks like our boy will probably be Thanksgiving, too. After all the pain @jchny2000 and I have been through with BB turkeys, I don't want to wait until he needs to be put out of his misery to put him down. He's a sweet boy and loves us (for the moment, before those manly hormones may get the better of his darling nature) as much as a turkey can possibly love people (which is much more than non-turkey-owners can possibly understand), but the breed is just too tragic to make him linger in misery much past slaughtering age. I hope he makes it to Thanksgiving, frankly. Of course, I may wind up keeping him til Christmas... We all know me when it comes to putting off the inevitable with turkeys.
Little heritage bronze Pancake, my youngest's poult, looks to be a girl, and while she'd always been healthy until now, she's suffered a sinus blockage on one side this week. Looked like a feather had gotten stuck in her nose, but even taking it out didn't fully relieve the pressure and let her eat normally. We gave up nasal sprays and did the needlework yesterday. Injected saline into the cavity to loosen the goop, sucked out the goop, injected half a cc of Tylan 50 into it. Pressure is down a bit, eye's slear, and she's finally eating again!
