Lawnmower vs Rooster GRAPHIC PICS/ Saying Goodbye

[BWKatz]

Oh I forgot. Kubuto shouldn't need extra Calcium, he's not a laying hen.

 

[imelly]

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add me to the list of admirers. the world is a better place because of folks like you, lori. and your vet?? wow.

i wondered when i read this post - when my son had surgery once we did something called damp to dry dressing changes. we'd wet gauze in a sterile setting, pack the gauze in and around the wound. later, when the dressing had dried, we'd pull it off and with it any loose, necrotic tissue. i don't know if this technique would work here with your 'bota, but it might be worth looking into.

good luck to you!

 

[Lorije1]

thanks everyone! I unwrapped Kubota this afternoon but it is still raining and I never did make it to get bandages (YAY nap!) so in the morning when I get off work I will need to stop and buy some. Hopefully it will clear up enough for him to have a field trip to the garden. I didn't spend nearly as much time with him so I worry about him being even more bored / depressed.
I will definitely try some of these ideas!! He eats, but I think it is just enough to maintain his current weight while his body is working on healing - so I need to start giving him high calories in small bites, know what I mean?
My chickens will love this experiment, because my guilty conscience won't let me feed him yum stuff without treating them as well

 

[DaniLovesChickens]

My chickens LOVE

macaroni and cheese and mashed potatoes. Both of those would put some extra weight on him (or at least help). That is why mine don't get it very often - they don't need extra weight. I gotta keep em lookin trim and sexy!

(even more funny if you saw me)

You gave me advice on something I posted earlier this week. Seriously, Lori, how do you have time to do it? You have a job. I have heard you speak of it - 3rd shift no less. Then you take care of Kubota and your other chickens. You keep all of us posted (because, seriously, what would we do without news of our boy?) and you still find time to look at the other stuff on the site and to try and help other people !?!

We're not worthy!

Dani

 

[Lorije1]

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HA!
I am actually starting to run short on energy - but it'll all work out

No go on taking Kubota to the garden , if the weather website is correct (it says the same thing for Sunday

)

Today
Forecast: Heavy T-Storms Temperature: 82°
High Chance of Precip: 80%


If it will just hold off long enough for me to get his leg soaked and wrapped, I will be one very happy camper. I hang his towels out to dry and evidently that isn't going to happen this weekend.

Poop experts (sorry, I can't bring myself to study the poop page y'all linked me to lol )
He has firm poop, more like a small dog or cat than the loose little half pile / half puddles my chickens do. Problem?? or ok?

 

[Lorije1]

So I get off work at 6am and head to walgreens - find out they don't open until 7 so I am forced to go kicking and screaming to Walmart for bandages etc so I can wrap Kubota before the storms. I get home and draw up his penicillin (yet another issue, but that's later) and start fixing his 'breakfast'. I had some of those microwave hamburger helper / mac n cheese single servings so I decided to fix one for Kubota. I push the start button on the microwave and it sputters then dies, my lights go off, the radio goes off, the fans go off.....

Pause here - about 3-4 weeks ago lightning struck around my trailer and blew out a breaker and my outdoor outlet. We got it going again but evidently there are still issues. SO I went to my folks and got my dad (retired electrician - retired 1996 but that is beside the point).

Anyway,We worked for about a half hour or so and got my lights and AC working, I promised not to use my microwave until a licensed electrician came out. By this time it is pouring rain. I went to get my mom to help me can my blueberry jam and then headed back up to my place. My chicken house was leaking like a sieve and there was my golden comet Clementine in the washtub (their chosen "nest box") laying. SO I got the caulk gun and climbed around in the rain trying to find all of the leaks. Got some, missed lots. Had to pull branches off the fence from the storm last night. Still pouring rain.

I fed Kubota - he ate his pellets and yogurt at least. Went to give him his injection I realized I had drawn bubbles of penicillin so instead of .5 cc of meds I had about .1cc.

I give up - gotta take a little break and regroup then I'll try again. I guess I'll have to move stuff around in the horse trailer to work on him (horse trailer is so rusted it is a shed now).

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

Do you have any updated pics of him?

 

[Lorije1]

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As a matter of fact...

I managed to wrap him without too much soaking from the rain - will probably have to redo the bandage tonight if it ever stops raining. He has eaten about 3 tablespoons of yogurt (I soaked some wholegrain cheerios in it too

) and some pellets. He drinks a lot of water so I put just tiny bits of vitamin / electrolyte powder in it - much and he won't drink it.

Big Poppy (My white EE roo) sat on the gate about 6ft away crowing, Kubota didn't crow just sat there wet and miserable.

still really pale faced, but the white wattle is yogurt.

 

[sheaviance1]

Okay, so I have a question. Everyone keeps saying he doesn't need calcium because he is a rooster, and I get that, but with an injury to the bone, wouldn't he need calcium to help it heal? Please forgive, but I am learning a lot from this thread.

Oh, by the way, from the looks of that stink eye, Kubota is doing great!!! Keep up the good work!

 

[QuinnP]

oh he is beautiful!!