MJ's little flock

[BY Bob]

Mary's condition worsened yesterday. When I took her for her injection, the nurse made a special note on her file and today Mark will take a second look at her crop, which should be much better by now. I imagine her slow crop made her hungry, so she's been packing anything she can find into her beak, worsening her crop situation.

On the other hand, her abdominal swelling is clearing and an even more normal egg was laid yesterday, quite like her eggs from prior seasons: smooth and shaped quite like a golf ball.

I am considering opting her in for a hysterectomy once this season's laying is over. Just thinking it over. It seems commencing this season's laying caused her quite a lot of illness. I'd like to avoid that in future. On the other hand, a hysterectomy is a radical intervention.

What would you do?

If you don't mind I'm going to think on this before I weigh in. I'm not certain it is frankly that cut and dry. It is a tricky surgery from my understanding.

 

[MaryJanet]

If you can afford the procedure and the prognosis is good then go for the hysterectomy. It should mean no more antibiotics for EYP and given the problems they seem to cause this can only be a good thing imo.

I agree with Shad and given that you already know Dr Mark is a skilled avian surgeon, he sounds like the best person for the (difficult) job.

If you don't mind I'm going to think on this before I weigh in. I'm not certain it is frankly that cut and dry. It is a tricky surgery from my understanding.

Thanks everyone. I look forward to learning your view in time Bob. Mark has explained the things that make it tricky but I can't recall the details. I'm usually so floored by how quickly he makes diagnoses that I don't take in the details very well. Something about it being a tricky area and things can be more closely connected than usual.

Anyway, he saw her today and decided she'd be OK for now. She has her 5th injection early tomorrow morning and if there's no improvement, she'll have radiography on Monday which will give him further information to factor in.

 

[rjohns39]

Good evening folks

 

[Grammy60]

Good morning/evening MJ and everyone

 

[LozzyR]

Nyssa’s crop wasn’t empty this morning. It wasn’t completely full but felt quite firm. I gave it a good massage before I gave her the meds. My goodness did she struggle!

 

[MaryJanet]

Nyssa’s crop wasn’t empty this morning. It wasn’t completely full but felt quite firm. I gave it a good massage before I gave her the meds. My goodness did she struggle!

Mary's just back from her last injection and Mark decided she needs xrays, so she's going back early tomorrow morning for a day stay. However, when she jumped out of her basket just now I thought her crop looked empty. I'll still take her for xrays tomorrow just in case.

She's getting used to the car, but decided against hopping out of the basket.

 

[MaryJanet]

Nyssa’s crop wasn’t empty this morning. It wasn’t completely full but felt quite firm. I gave it a good massage before I gave her the meds. My goodness did she struggle!

I would have left it to see if it cleared by tomorrow, but I know many people crack on with treatment immediately.

 

[MaryJanet]

I'm at the show today and sending this post from the raucous poultry shed! It's amazing!! So much crowing and bokking.

Here are a few little ones I've met today

 

[LozzyR]

Just a reminder Loz!

Whew, it's taken me eight months to jump onto my old computer in DH's black-hole of an office and retrieve the videos of me playing the piano! It was recorded on a relatively cheap Mini-DV camera with terrible sound, so I recorded the sound separately on a Zoom H4N recorder. It recorded it in 4:3 ratio (I did it in 2017) and the picture looked pretty terrible! So I saved them onto my current computer, ran them through iMovie again and played around with the colour and contrast. I couldn't convert it to 16:9 without severe cropping so there are black strips on the outsides but you get the whole picture and it looks better, although it still isn't great. But the sound is much better than if I had used the camera's mic so that's something.

There are seven pieces and it might take a bit of time to get through them so come and go at your leisure. I've made them public on my channel so you don't have to go hunting for the links.

And here's some chicken tax in advance; Tegan nice and comfy in a hole:

 

[Grammy60]

Good morning/evening MJ and everyone

Whew, it's taken me eight months to jump onto my old computer in DH's black-hole of an office and retrieve the videos of me playing the piano! It was recorded on a relatively cheap Mini-DV camera with terrible sound, so I recorded the sound separately on a Zoom H4N recorder. It recorded it in 4:3 ratio (I did it in 2017) and the picture looked pretty terrible! So I saved them onto my current computer, ran them through iMovie again and played around with the colour and contrast. I couldn't convert it to 16:9 without severe cropping so there are black strips on the outsides but you get the whole picture and it looks better, although it still isn't great. But the sound is much better than if I had used the camera's mic so that's something.

There are seven pieces and it might take a bit of time to get through them so come and go at your leisure. I've made them public on my channel so you don't have to go hunting for the links.

And here's some chicken tax in advance; Tegan nice and comfy in a hole:
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Those are absolutely amazing