Official Squatch Watchers

[FlyingNunFarm]

Watering everything down was a good move according to be guy! Not much else you can really do. Keep everything as fresh as you can.

 

[pitbullmomma]

I just snapped this (excuse the empty containers, I need to disinfect everything!)

Anyway, he looks a million times better than he did. I had to cut his tail feathers because they were all bedraggled and poopy. But--

He is standing.

His tail is more arched than it has been.

His comb is more upright.

His eyes are bright.

It's the little things.

 

[Molpet]

I hope the bees are also encouraged to use my back yard and waterers since the sprinkler is running out front.

I called the number on the flier he gave me. No shock there that there was no answer.

 

[CapricornFarm]

View attachment 1506861 I just snapped this (excuse the empty containers, I need to disinfect everything!)

Anyway, he looks a million times better than he did. I had to cut his tail feathers because they were all bedraggled and poopy. But--

He is standing.

His tail is more arched than it has been.

His comb is more upright.

His eyes are bright.

It's the little things.

He is on the road to recovery!

 

[ronott1]

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a tree was left when my great grandparents logged the land. the squirrels were allowed to planted them over my parents generation. Now I am dealing with a million nuts

They get to be big trees too!

 

[ronott1]

All he would tell me was it's an insecticide. Hopefully running the sprinkler diluted or washed off what hit my flower bed.

I will call and see if they will tell me what was used.

That is terrible!

 

[CapricornFarm]

We have black walnuts here, but not near the house. We have a hickory tree right next to the house and the nuts make a terrific racket when they hit the metal roof.

 

[pitbullmomma]

Just took these. A closeup. Even sick as sh1t, he is still handsome!

Lafayette strolling by the little coop garden

 

[21hens-incharge]

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.

He will get his crazy crow back. It takes a long long time for them to recover. It sounds and looks like he is on the upswing.

Watering everything down was a good move according to be guy! Not much else you can really do. Keep everything as fresh as you can.

I drenched the daylights out of that section of the yard. Luckily I have cukes and beans in heavy bloom. There are a lot of bees out back in the (far from chemicals) veggie patch.

My front bed is full of wild flowers and a Saint Johns Wart that are all blooming. It's usually full of bees.
That they stay out back today.

 

[pitbullmomma]

He will get his crazy crow back. It takes a long long time for them to recover. It sounds and looks like he is on the upswing.

Thanks, Henny (and everyone). I hope so. It's crazy how you get so attached to these little boogerheads....