Official Squatch Watchers

[pitbullmomma]

Good morning, peeps!

 

[21hens-incharge]

Good morning, peeps!

Mornin PBM! Long time no see.

How is the little Lafayette doing?

 

[CapricornFarm]

I am going to try to put the second wall to the chicken coop up today. Hubby says it is hot out there already. Looking forward to cooler temperatures.

 

[pitbullmomma]

It's been very touch and go, but he is still around!

I had my vet tech friend run a fecal on him. Cocci overload, some rounds, and tapes.

I dewormed him (and the others) with equine Safeguard paste. I have been putting Tylan in the water (this is Day 5).

He has been so weak, and lost probably half of his body weight. I have been hand feeding him several times a day...medicated chick starter (along with his regular Flock Raiser), mealworms (which he scarfs up), live culture yogurt, boiled eggs....a little scratch....whatever I can get in him.

He is drinking. But he is too weak to climb up the ladder at night I have to pick him up and put him in the coop.

I can see very small improvement, day by day. Each day his comb is a tiny bit straighter and yesterday was the first day that I weighed him and he actually gained instead of lost. He stands a little more and is walking more. His feathers hve regained some of their beautiful Cemani sheen.

I was sure I was going to lose him, but now (as I used to tell my vet clients with particularly tough cases) I am being cautiously optimistic.

I have been giving him real intensive care, spending crazy amounts of time; it takes him a long time to finish eating and drinking. But he's worth it. I want him to live. I really love that silly rooster.

 

[pitbullmomma]

Oh yeah, and his poop? Instead of being bright, lime green and super liquidy....it's now formed, and a greenish brown kakhi color. So there is that.

 

[21hens-incharge]

It's been very touch and go, but he is still around!

I had my vet tech friend run a fecal on him. Cocci overload, some rounds, and tapes.

I dewormed him (and the others) with equine Safeguard paste. I have been putting Tylan in the water (this is Day 5).

He has been so weak, and lost probably half of his body weight. I have been hand feeding him several times a day...medicated chick starter (along with his regular Flock Raiser), mealworms (which he scarfs up), live culture yogurt, boiled eggs....a little scratch....whatever I can get in him.

He is drinking. But he is too weak to climb up the ladder at night I have to pick him up and put him in the coop.

I can see very small improvement, day by day. Each day his comb is a tiny bit straighter and yesterday was the first day that I weighed him and he actually gained instead of lost. He stands a little more and is walking more. His feathers hve regained some of their beautiful Cemani sheen.

I was sure I was going to lose him, but now (as I used to tell my vet clients with particularly tough cases) I am being cautiously optimistic.

I have been giving him real intensive care, spending crazy amounts of time; it takes him a long time to finish eating and drinking. But he's worth it. I want him to live. I really love that silly rooster.

That is really good news! Each day he should get better and better. I had been really worried for you and him.

It's really really good that he is eating.

 

[pitbullmomma]

That is really good news! Each day he should get better and better. I had been really worried for you and him.

It's really really good that he is eating.

Thank you, sweetie!

I haven't posted because--I don't know, I didn't want to jinx myself!

It takes me forever to feed him and for him to eat the food I put out. It makes me want to cry when he falls over and can't get up, or the other ones knock him over and he just lays there. A couple times I thought he was dead. But I am seeing improvement, and I think if he was gonna die, it would have been early on. This has been going on for over a week and a half now.

It used to annoy me how he would systematically mount my little hens, like the horniest of Drakkar Noir-soaked, clubbing male humans in the 80's--just go happily boinking, from one to the next. And his crow! It sounded like an insane, high-pitched, cackling woman every morning at 5. Or whenever I was coming to feed him.

Now I would LOVE to hear that crow. I miss it.

 

[CapricornFarm]

It's been very touch and go, but he is still around!

I had my vet tech friend run a fecal on him. Cocci overload, some rounds, and tapes.

I dewormed him (and the others) with equine Safeguard paste. I have been putting Tylan in the water (this is Day 5).

He has been so weak, and lost probably half of his body weight. I have been hand feeding him several times a day...medicated chick starter (along with his regular Flock Raiser), mealworms (which he scarfs up), live culture yogurt, boiled eggs....a little scratch....whatever I can get in him.

He is drinking. But he is too weak to climb up the ladder at night I have to pick him up and put him in the coop.

I can see very small improvement, day by day. Each day his comb is a tiny bit straighter and yesterday was the first day that I weighed him and he actually gained instead of lost. He stands a little more and is walking more. His feathers hve regained some of their beautiful Cemani sheen.

I was sure I was going to lose him, but now (as I used to tell my vet clients with particularly tough cases) I am being cautiously optimistic.

I have been giving him real intensive care, spending crazy amounts of time; it takes him a long time to finish eating and drinking. But he's worth it. I want him to live. I really love that silly rooster.

Oh that is great to hear! It is always the favorites that seem to fall ill. You are doing a great job!

 

[Molpet]

Little stinker that stores nuts under the tub is genius level smart or really lucky. There is a room off the kitchen to the back of the house I refer to as the mud room. It’s more like a poorly constructed enclosed porch. Gaps everywhere, no insulation or heat. At one point the house had insulation blown in from the outside and the plugs used to close up the holes fell out. This squirrel found it’s way into the mud room then picked just the right hole in the house that led to an opening between the floors and access to the plumbing pipe that runs from the upstairs bathroom all the way into the basement. It a squirrel super highway!

Ha they have stored walnuts in your house too. Used to have a cat door, found walnuts under the stove burners above the oven when I lifted it to clean. Mice I assume

 

[Molpet]

It's been very touch and go, but he is still around!

I had my vet tech friend run a fecal on him. Cocci overload, some rounds, and tapes.

I dewormed him (and the others) with equine Safeguard paste. I have been putting Tylan in the water (this is Day 5).

He has been so weak, and lost probably half of his body weight. I have been hand feeding him several times a day...medicated chick starter (along with his regular Flock Raiser), mealworms (which he scarfs up), live culture yogurt, boiled eggs....a little scratch....whatever I can get in him.

He is drinking. But he is too weak to climb up the ladder at night I have to pick him up and put him in the coop.

I can see very small improvement, day by day. Each day his comb is a tiny bit straighter and yesterday was the first day that I weighed him and he actually gained instead of lost. He stands a little more and is walking more. His feathers hve regained some of their beautiful Cemani sheen.

I was sure I was going to lose him, but now (as I used to tell my vet clients with particularly tough cases) I am being cautiously optimistic.

I have been giving him real intensive care, spending crazy amounts of time; it takes him a long time to finish eating and drinking. But he's worth it. I want him to live. I really love that silly rooster.