- Aug 28, 2014
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Sweetie's still alive, but ooey, she stinks. DH has been ultra-reluctant to help and I haven't wanted to badger him about it. She's in good spirits but hasn't been walking. don't want to flush it with water but have yet to find "isotonic saline" anywhere. Will flush with water (maybe with a bit of contact lens saline) and then inject with antibiotics, rub a ton of neosporin in there and get crazy with an eye patch on my turkey girl. Trouble is always finding a way to keep an eye patch on one side of her face without blinding her other eye.
Tintaglia has taken a turn for the worse. She's acting cold all the time and just huddles up or stands alone, looks tired all the time. Still can't see in front of her face--same as Syd. They peck the wrong place every time. Kinda wondering if it's related to an ear problem with all three girls on account of Sweetie's poor balance, and Syd and Tintaglia's strange rotation of pecks (always shift a few degrees to one direction every time they peck--generally about five degrees to their left, increasing with every peck until they bring their heads all the way back and start over). Really odd. normally muscles at the rear of the eye can give them greater binocular vision, but these two just don't seem to have access to those muscles at all (probably why they're so small). Just can't figure out what to do about it. Been giving them food in much wider containers to allow for their rotational pecking and aim problems, and having to feed them separately at night. Just doesn't seem to be enough.
The good news is that I've received the first egg from the younger gals! One of the black girls gave me a teeny weenie egg this week! Looking forward to some turkey egg omelets in the coming months!
All of the poults that have hatched so far were all from Pretty Boy (big bourbon tom formerly at @jchny2000 's) so I'm loathe to eat the eggs from the older two girls. I'm amazed they're laying fertile eggs because they're been here quite awhile longer than I'd figured his wigglies would have lasted. This whole time, we'd been figuring he's been shooting blanks because jchny2000 had only had a couple poults hatch from him this year. I've get fertile eggs that all seem to have his kids in 'em.
