Official Squatch Watchers

[staceyj]

Oh i didn't tell you guys i am getting my eyes fixed! Droopy lids.

A friend of mine had that done and wow! She looked so fresh and ten years younger.

 

[rjohns39]

Morning all

look for a gap on the back side of he upper track inside the tub. They often have a specific place the doors have to be in to get out of the upper track. Sometimes you have to remove the top cap first.

 

[Chickassan]

Good morning! Kids are loose, I turned over a wood pile so they're having a ball scratching around. Blew the fuse in the microwave first thing this morning. I had a replacement but boy howdy that thing was awful to take apart! I only had to get the cover off but it was a chore! They didn't want me fixing it lol.

 

[pitbullmomma]

Lafayette is dying.

I am really sad.

 

[pitbullmomma]

He was doing so well, but not gaining weight. I really thought he was going to make it.

Then last night he didn't go inside his coop at dusk. I had to put him in there.

When I went to let them out this morning, he was laying on his side in the nest box. I took him out and he just laid on his side. His crop was still full, eyes barely open. His comb and wattles are shrunken and limp back like when this all started.

I tried massaging his crop, Nutridrenching, giving him water from a syringe. I held him and rocked him and stroked him and cried.

There is a term in veterinary and human medicine: Moribund. It literally means death bound. Aside from being a vet, I was also a hospice nurse for some time. When an animal or human is about to die, there is nothing you can do. There are no more heroic efforts.

I have him lying in the chicken yard, in a shady area with the other chickens and his ladies around him. He is not suffering. He is comfortable, and breathing very slow. If he starts to suffer in any way, I will euthanize him. But he is with his chicken people, and when it is time for him to go, he will go.

Flower is standing next to him cooing and chattering.

Joe dug a hole under the coop window box for him.' I feel I did everything I could, but I'm so sad.

 

[Molpet]

He was doing so well, but not gaining weight. I really thought he was going to make it.

Then last night he didn't go inside his coop at dusk. I had to put him in there.

When I went to let them out this morning, he was laying on his side in the nest box. I took him out and he just laid on his side. His crop was still full, eyes barely open. His comb and wattles are shrunken and limp back like when this all started.

I tried massaging his crop, Nutridrenching, giving him water from a syringe. I held him and rocked him and stroked him and cried.

There is a term in veterinary and human medicine: Moribund. It literally means death bound. Aside from being a vet, I was also a hospice nurse for some time. When an animal or human is about to die, there is nothing you can do. There are no more heroic efforts.

I have him lying in the chicken yard, in a shady area with the other chickens and his ladies around him. He is not suffering. He is comfortable, and breathing very slow. If he starts to suffer in any way, I will euthanize him. But he is with his chicken people, and when it is time for him to go, he will go.

Flower is standing next to him cooing and chattering.

Joe dug a hole under the coop window box for him.' I feel I did everything I could, but I'm so sad.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

He was doing so well, but not gaining weight. I really thought he was going to make it.

Then last night he didn't go inside his coop at dusk. I had to put him in there.

When I went to let them out this morning, he was laying on his side in the nest box. I took him out and he just laid on his side. His crop was still full, eyes barely open. His comb and wattles are shrunken and limp back like when this all started.

I tried massaging his crop, Nutridrenching, giving him water from a syringe. I held him and rocked him and stroked him and cried.

There is a term in veterinary and human medicine: Moribund. It literally means death bound. Aside from being a vet, I was also a hospice nurse for some time. When an animal or human is about to die, there is nothing you can do. There are no more heroic efforts.

I have him lying in the chicken yard, in a shady area with the other chickens and his ladies around him. He is not suffering. He is comfortable, and breathing very slow. If he starts to suffer in any way, I will euthanize him. But he is with his chicken people, and when it is time for him to go, he will go.

Flower is standing next to him cooing and chattering.

Joe dug a hole under the coop window box for him.' I feel I did everything I could, but I'm so sad.

I'm so so sorry! You got me all teary eyed. Give him some chicken love from me and just be with him. He knows you love him.

 

[TexasSam]

Lafayette is dying.

I am really sad.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Lafayette is dying.

I am really sad.

Oh no! I am beyond sorry hon.

 

[pitbullmomma]

I'm so so sorry! You got me all teary eyed. Give him some chicken love from me and just be with him. He knows you love him.

Thanks, guys, for the love.

I know you all understand, in a way that non-animal (or non-chicken) people do.

I never thought I could get so attached to a silly rooster. I didn't even want a rooster, and his silly crow used to bug me. Now I miss his crow.

He had a good life, even though it was a short one. I just wish I could have saved him.

When he goes, I'm not doing a necropsy. I just can't. If I lose any more chickens I will. But hopefully I won't have to.