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Fishychix said:
Poor Gilbert. I put both my quail boys together with no issues for at least two weeks now. A couple of days ago they were a bit more vocal than usual but nothing else seemed off. Shortly after, I niticed both had developed male pattern baldness. The very next day Gilbert was in their hidey hole and as soon as I found him he panicked and the other started in on him. Once I managed to get them seperated I saw that hed been scalped.
When trying to get jim out he flew out into the garage and kept backing up into everything. I thought Id put him in a cut up sock to help keep him from flopping about but that didnt work. He ended up taking a tour of the living room and kitchen with two cats and the dog close behind. At least I didn’t lose him! Lol. I finally caught before he fell down the stairs by throwing a blanket over him. I went to TSC to get him some meds but quickly got very confused. I ended up getting NutriDrench and Rooster Booster wound spray and I made him some salve with lanolin, golden jojiba, tea tree essential oil, clove essential oil, and evening primrose oil. Hopefully he’ll be okay. He’s the nicer one.
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Hope he's okay 🤗 your a good chicken mom, you noticed something wasn't right and stayed on top of it! Keep us updated on how he's doing 🤗🤗
 
Feeling hurt and saddened today.

Someone who my husband and his family have been friends with for about 20 years asked a question on Facebook about the best way to help her adult child do something (what doesn't really matter). Since they asked, I said that it would be best not to do that thing because it was playing with fire and not as important to living daily life as most people believe. A couple of other people jumped on the band wagon and I was responding to them. About the time I was done talking and needed to go to bed (I posted saying so and that I loved them) they responded back that I had no right to question their parenting choices and that my opinion wasn't wanted. It cut to the quick. This isn't the person I knew. It took me a while to fall asleep because I was so upset. I'm still upset as I'm writing this. I tried to show my husband what they wrote but the comment where they came after me was no longer there. My husband privately messaged them about it as nicely as he could. I had him acknowledge that my first response could have been taken to be flippant but it wasn't meant that way. But I saw the response before they deleted it and I can't unsee it. They responded that, yes, they "regretted" that post (but it got a couple of likes before they deleted it🙄) and they equated what happened with asking "What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?" and I just kept responding with all the ways ice cream is bad for them. Also, my responses and the people responding to me were distracting them from the posts REALLY answering their question. They went on and on about how I don't know anything about how they raised their kids and their family situation and an unspecified family crisis that they were having.... Then they thanked my husband for the kindness in the question he asked and blah, blah. No hint of an apology. He hasn't responded yet.

*sigh* When you ask about something on an open forum like your friend list, you open yourself up to such responses as don't do it. Frankly, I view the question they asked with almost as much horror as I think they would if I had posted "What's the best way to teach my kid to handle a gun?" (not exactly the same, but similar amounts of danger in a different area of life, in my opinion). I wasn't questioning their parenting, I was putting another option out there and responding to the fallacies other people were presenting. If it was distracting they could have deleted my original comment, because it is their post, or found a nicer way to tell me to mind my own business. I would have complied. There was no reason to excoriate me, never mind doing it publicly.

I think I need to do some friend list surgery.
 

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