Thanks everyone for your thoughts and prayers. My mom told me this morning that pap just walked into a tree the other day... Just walked into it. He's been having issues with his sight for a couple years, but we wonder now how bad the spinal cancer is - maybe he has no control of his movements at times? Or maybe it's in his brain? I don't know. I do know he's in a lot of pain. He has been for awhile and yes, LittleMissPurdy, I believe working through it is his way of dealing with it. He didn't even want to bother with treatment at first, now he does.
I am worried about Dewey, my husband, now. He's been complaining for some time about different things and I kept telling him to go to the doctor. He doesn't want to or like to. He's 46, nearly 47yrs old and all he does is works. His life isn't complete with a job. He just got a better job but he's in his probationary period. Once he's signed on as a full hire and we get medical insurance again, he's going to a doctor.
In lighter news, the turkey trio from Aunt Kat!
They are wandering around in my 12x24 shed that holds my 2'x7' bantam Cochin breeding pens. They are in 'quarantine' yet. I swept and vacuumed my shed floor while they were running around. I don't know if it's because I am new to them, but they are not very outgoing. And they have no idea what mealworms are. If they do, they must not like them. They did like digging through my swept up pile though. I had to re-sweep it 3x before I shoveled it into the wheel barrel. At one point the tom decided to get the 'bird's eye view' from atop my pens.
This back corner will have 3 - 4'x5' built in pens. You can't see it, but to the right is my 4'x6' brooder with my lone Bourbon Red poult I hatched out last week.
ETA: The turkey on the left has me wondering if she is a she. I think she is. The snood is bigger then the other girls, but they are the same size (much smaller than the tom). For some reason she was quite red in this pic - not so in the others.
The tom looking handsome.
One of the hens preening.
"Oh, look! She put this here for us!"
And my original batch of turkeys.
The two BBBs by the feed bin are my deformed babies. I am going to attempt to get them an appointment for processing next week. I tried to splint their legs and I wrapped them with pipe insulation for some extra support after splinting did not work. The one's right leg is turned almost backwards. Poor babies. I kept them off a high protein diet so that wouldn't happen. It did anyways. So, this week and next week I am shoveling the protein to them to get them to at least 10-12lbs dressed weight.
I hatched the Red and Slate in late May-early June. The BBBs I bought from a local Agway. Mr. Red and the Slate hen will be in a pen together next year. I think the Bourbon in the brooder is another tom. I am seriously hoping not. I thought about keeping a BBB hen to see if Mr. Red and her would naturally mate and give me big, meaty and tasty birds next year for the holidays. I am not so sure I want to bother. Another project I don't want to deal with.
And so sorry for all this news on your Pap.....and now the worry of your hubs. Keeping you in my prayers!
