Ribh's D'Coopage

[Grammy60]

Good evening everyone

Think your kiddies might be easier, Sue. I can hear the first lot up already & it's not really light yet so I'd best go check.

We went pastel this morning

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So pretty

loved how you compared my kids to your chickens, some days I wonder

 

[BY Bob]

The Kaboom!​

All was calm on the chicken front. The big girls calmly asked to be let in & out of the big coop. The New 'Uns watched this with increasing interest. They passed each other as silent ships in the night.

This all came to an abrupt end @ 3.30 pm.

At 3pm I set out the feed tubs. Most of my big girls congregated under the coop in the sand pit. Lottie, yes, Little Lottie, stood guard over the 3 other big feed tubs repelling all boarders. Fair enough. She was enjoying herself & her pecks never connected. All the new girls gave her the deference her little Wyandotte heart craved.

Things were pottering along fairly peacefully apart from Morrigu who was pacing the wire & screaming. This is not unusual for Campines so I wasn't paying much attention. Then everything went quiet. The next thing Soda exploded from her nesting box & launched the most vicious chicken attack I have ever seen. Morrigu was being held down flat while Soda ripped out neck feathers. They tumbled down the 1st step, Soda screaming. Morrigu slithered away & dropped an egg @ my feet.

Oops. Do not try to lay in the Top Chook's nesting box. She gets really, really upset.

PS Everything promptly returned to normal straight after & has stayed that way.

Wow! You will need to watch for laying elsewhere. Morrigu is likely to not use the nesting boxes now and may recruit friends to lay with her.

 

[BY Bob]

Nolia is sick.
She has a partially impacted crop, wry neck symptoms and hasn't pooped this morning.
I've got 30ml of water with 400IU of vitamin E and some multi vitamins down her along with some coconut oil. After 4 lots of crop massage she she's standing and walking, albeit unsteadily and slow.
Early this morning when she went to drink her head would go back in the classic star gazing position. That seems to have stopped now.
I took her out for half an hour to be with her family and she drank a lot more water.
In an hour or so I'll give another crop massage with more coconut oil.
What I'm looking for is some sign that what goes in one end comes out the other.
I'm trying to get her to the vets this evening if I can. But, since the storm the phone hasn't been working so I may just drive over with her.

We will keep her in our prayers. Best of luck. Please keep us posted.

 

[Shadrach]

The Kaboom!​

All was calm on the chicken front. The big girls calmly asked to be let in & out of the big coop. The New 'Uns watched this with increasing interest. They passed each other as silent ships in the night.

This all came to an abrupt end @ 3.30 pm.

At 3pm I set out the feed tubs. Most of my big girls congregated under the coop in the sand pit. Lottie, yes, Little Lottie, stood guard over the 3 other big feed tubs repelling all boarders. Fair enough. She was enjoying herself & her pecks never connected. All the new girls gave her the deference her little Wyandotte heart craved.

Things were pottering along fairly peacefully apart from Morrigu who was pacing the wire & screaming. This is not unusual for Campines so I wasn't paying much attention. Then everything went quiet. The next thing Soda exploded from her nesting box & launched the most vicious chicken attack I have ever seen. Morrigu was being held down flat while Soda ripped out neck feathers. They tumbled down the 1st step, Soda screaming. Morrigu slithered away & dropped an egg @ my feet.

Oops. Do not try to lay in the Top Chook's nesting box. She gets really, really upset.

PS Everything promptly returned to normal straight after & has stayed that way.

My my, it sounds like some of the lot here have moved into your place.

 

[Ribh]

She's in with me atm. She's not well enough to be outside on her own.
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This is when I took her out to be with her family for a bit. She just stood by the drinker and drank.
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I'm so sorry about Nolia. She is a beautiful chook. I hope the vet was able to help.

 

[Ribh]

My my, it sounds like some of the lot here have moved into your place.

Oh, no! Nah. Nah. Nah. I have enough problems.

 

[MaryJanet]

She's in with me atm. She's not well enough to be outside on her own.
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This is when I took her out to be with her family for a bit. She just stood by the drinker and drank.
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How is she now Shad?

 

[Shadrach]

I got Nolia to the vet at eight this evening. By that time I had got her crop moving with coconut oil, water and massage. During the day Nolia drank 320 ml of water!
At around mid afternoon Nolia produced this. I took that to the vet as well.

I've had Nolia outside a few times during the day to see if there is something growing or diggable that she might eat. She hadn't eaten any solids all day.
At the vet we did an internal. I had checked for egg binding earlier but Gloria double checked.
During the internal Nolia dumped out a lot of water and more bits of solid....twice. Poor Gloria's examination table was awash.
Gloria says Nolia's crop is not impacted, nor is it sour. It just seems to have run slow and this could well be because of the star gazing position I found her in this morning, if hse had spent the night like that.
Nolia is a good weight, no worms, or other parasites internal, or external and her plumage is in good condition.
The green bits in her poop are partially digested vegetation.
Gloria said she doesn't know what is wrong with Nolia (don't you just love honest vets)
She suspets that like Nolia's sister Bracket there is a neurological problem somewhere.
After Nolia's major waterworks at the vet we let her run around in a compartment with a glass wall attached to the surgery part. Nolia's walk improved from her walks earlier but she was still drinking lots of water.
It's a matter of observation, more oil and water and massage to get her crop fully cleaned out.
When I got home I put out a bit of her normal commercial feed along with yet more water and Nolia eat about a teaspoonfull before wandering around looking for somewhere to roost.
Here she is on walkabout.

I put her in the pet carrier on top of the nest box and covered it with a towel to keep the light out. She was still pooping water like nobodies business and I'm running out of towels.
Tomorrow, as they say, is another day.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Nolia is sick.
She has a partially impacted crop, wry neck symptoms and hasn't pooped this morning.
I've got 30ml of water with 400IU of vitamin E and some multi vitamins down her along with some coconut oil. After 4 lots of crop massage she she's standing and walking, albeit unsteadily and slow.
Early this morning when she went to drink her head would go back in the classic star gazing position. That seems to have stopped now.
I took her out for half an hour to be with her family and she drank a lot more water.
In an hour or so I'll give another crop massage with more coconut oil.
What I'm looking for is some sign that what goes in one end comes out the other.
I'm trying to get her to the vets this evening if I can. But, since the storm the phone hasn't been working so I may just drive over with her.

I’m sorry to hear about Nolia Shad.
You are a very observant chicken keeper to notice straight away amongst you constantly moving tribes.
I hope the vet can help

 

[Kris5902]

@Shadrach praying for Nolia it’s so hard when there’s no clear answers
And with all she was drinking I’m not surprised at watery deposits. A person can never have too many chicken towels to hand I’ve found.