MJ's little flock

[MaryJanet]

I don’t think she is OK. I suspect she has Marek’s. The vet drew blood for a test.
I expect to lose her, but she will clearly go down fighting.
And yes, Piglet really is a piglet.
She sometimes sleeps inside the food bowl - usually with a friend - rather than going under the heat plate. I mean God forbid she might have to walk ten paces for breakfast or a midnight snack!

You'd have been doing lots of reading, I'm sure. What are your most recent thoughts on managing mareks?

 

[MaryJanet]

Eli has a strong spirit. Poop and fly in the face of illness- I would love to be like her.
I'm more miss Pigletine though.
It must be difficult for you waiting for the result

How did the vet appointment go ? (If I'm not mixing the time difference up.)

We'll heading off to the vet in 15 minutes. I'll update everyone as soon as we're home again. I'm taking Christa along for company.

 

[MaryJanet]

We're home from the vet and we didn't see Dr Mark, we saw the other vet who works there, Dr Sasha, who's a younger vet working on building up her experience with birds. So she was happy to see a chicken instead of the usual stream of dogs and cats.

She does not think Joyce has ascites (which she pronounced a-site-ees). She thinks it likely Joyce has EYP, so a course of Lincospectin is starting for the Red Marauders, who will be confined to the big run for the duration. She also wants Mark to see Joyce very soon in case it's something else. So Joyce has another appointment for Thursday. It's at a difficult time (4.50pm) so I might try and move it later into the evening.

 

[rjohns39]

Good evening folks

 

[BY Bob]

We're home from the vet and we didn't see Dr Mark, we saw the other vet who works there, Dr Sasha, who's a younger vet working on building up her experience with birds. So she was happy to see a chicken instead of the usual stream of dogs and cats.

She does not think Joyce has ascites (which she pronounced a-site-ees). She thinks it likely Joyce has EYP, so a course of Lincospectin is starting for the Red Marauders, who will be confined to the big run for the duration. She also wants Mark to see Joyce very soon in case it's something else. So Joyce has another appointment for Thursday. It's at a difficult time (4.50pm) so I might try and move it later into the evening.

I'm praying for the best outcome for both of you.

 

[Grammy60]

Good morning MJ and everyone

 

[MaryJanet]

I'm praying for the best outcome for both of you.

Good morning MJ and everyone

Thanks you two.

I suppose the "something else" is egg-binding. I think that's unlikely because she's become gradually ill. On the other hand, I think it's likely because her poops aren't solid even though she's eating, which suggests something's blocking her up.

I'll know more tomorrow morning because I changed her appointment from 4.50pm to 10.10am.

 

[MaryJanet]

Late afternoon gossip session.

 

[MaryJanet]

Meanwhile the kids do their own thing.

 

[LozzyR]

Naughty girl knocked over my clean towels and parked her fluffy butt on them! Bela got himself up on the towel tower last night but I didn’t have my phone with me.

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