Possible EYP not sure if I should treat for infection or just make comfortable...

[Kiki]

Me too! I wish I had known there was something really wrong sooner.

Silly girls are good at hidden it when they don't feel good.

 

[nightowl223]

Me too! I wish I had known there was something really wrong sooner.

Silly girls are good at hidden it when they don't feel good.

Chickens (well, all farm birds, really) are really very good at instinctively hiding any illness or injury until they can no longer hide it, and then it's generally too late. They do that because they are prey animals, and the weakest prey is the one the predator is going to go for. It's just instinctive for them, but it does make it difficult for us to catch anything wrong with them before it's too bad for us to do anything about it. I've seen or read about everything from maggot infestation to egg-yolk perotinitius being discovered once the bird could finally not hide their condition. If you can't handle all of them every day (and most people can't for one reason or another), a situation can get out of hand quickly.

 

[heathersheppard]

Chickens (well, all farm birds, really) are really very good at instinctively hiding any illness or injury until they can no longer hide it, and then it's generally too late. They do that because they are prey animals, and the weakest prey is the one the predator is going to go for. It's just instinctive for them, but it does make it difficult for us to catch anything wrong with them before it's too bad for us to do anything about it. I've seen or read about everything from maggot infestation to egg-yolk perotinitius being discovered once the bird could finally not hide their condition. If you can't handle all of them every day (and most people can't for one reason or another), a situation can get out of hand quickly.

Thank you for saying so. There’s always a lot of guilt for me, but you’re right, they hide it well.

My girl seems to be doing better today, so fingers crossed. She’s still not 100% but better. I’m loving her and spoiling her best I can either way.

 

[nightowl223]

Thank you for saying so. There’s always a lot of guilt for me, but you’re right, they hide it well.

My girl seems to be doing better today, so fingers crossed. She’s still not 100% but better. I’m loving her and spoiling her best I can either way.

Oh, I know the guilt very well. I nursed a severely injured turkey poult, a sweet little girl, for literally months, after she got seriously injured. I literally had to amputate both her legs after gangrene set in, one at the heel, and one just above it. I had her nearly completely healed up, waiting for the stubs to be healed enough to start making her artificial limbs so she could walk again. I had been exercising her every day, so she could be strong enough once she healed up to be able to walk. She had constantly been struggling with what I guess you'd call bedsores, though, and I had been treating them every day, too. I thought she was doing SO well! I already had the materials ready to build her artifical legs, and the plan for them. She was always so cheerful, so full of life, so ready to help herself get better, it seemed! And then one day, I took a nap, and woke up to find her dead, just laying like she sleeps, head curled around to her wing, like she went to sleep and never woke up! I was heartbroken! I still cry as I sit here and talk about it. Not sure I had even spoke about it here on BYC before, even when I was in the middle of the worst part of the injuries and treatment. But I don't know what I did wrong for her to suddenly die, when I thought she was doing SO good, and I am wracked with guilt, thinking I might have missed something, like perhaps she might have needed another round of antibiotics and I had missed it. So, believe me, I understand the feeling of guilt!

 

[heathersheppard]

Oh, I know the guilt very well. I nursed a severely injured turkey poult, a sweet little girl, for literally months, after she got seriously injured. I literally had to amputate both her legs after gangrene set in, one at the heel, and one just above it. I had her nearly completely healed up, waiting for the stubs to be healed enough to start making her artificial limbs so she could walk again. I had been exercising her every day, so she could be strong enough once she healed up to be able to walk. She had constantly been struggling with what I guess you'd call bedsores, though, and I had been treating them every day, too. I thought she was doing SO well! I already had the materials ready to build her artifical legs, and the plan for them. She was always so cheerful, so full of life, so ready to help herself get better, it seemed! And then one day, I took a nap, and woke up to find her dead, just laying like she sleeps, head curled around to her wing, like she went to sleep and never woke up! I was heartbroken! I still cry as I sit here and talk about it. Not sure I had even spoke about it here on BYC before, even when I was in the middle of the worst part of the injuries and treatment. But I don't know what I did wrong for her to suddenly die, when I thought she was doing SO good, and I am wracked with guilt, thinking I might have missed something, like perhaps she might have needed another round of antibiotics and I had missed it. So, believe me, I understand the feeling of guilt!

Oh I’m so sorry you went through this. What an amazing turkey mama you are. That was some above and beyond care you gave. You shouldn’t feel guilty at all. Truly.

My girl seems to be doing better these past few days, but I’m not sure what that really means.

I’m just trying to care for and love her as much as I can.

 

[heathersheppard]

Update: well my girl Rose is still kicking. She’s acting better, eating and drinking and foraging around.

However she laid a pretty odd and good size lash egg today. So I know the problem isn’t gone.

 

[Kiki]

Update: well my girl Rose is still kicking. She’s acting better, eating and drinking and foraging around.

However she laid a pretty odd and good size lash egg today. So I know the problem isn’t gone.

Unfortunately these kind of problems don't really go away.

 

[heathersheppard]

Unfortunately these kind of problems don't really go away.

Yeah, I figured after our talk. I’m happy she appears better, and I’ve been spoiling her as much as I can. Trying to give her her best life while she’s here.

 

[Kiki]

Yeah, I figured after our talk. I’m happy she appears better, and I’ve been spoiling her as much as I can. Trying to give her her best life while she’s here.

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