The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[getaclue]

Sorry to hear about Georgie. It got down to 30 here last night, and is going to be 33 tonight. I brought Quacker-Sparkles (my duck) inside.

 

[speckledhen]

So sorry.

Thanks, my Kathy and Cheryl (I can't remember if it's Kathy with a "K", ack, my memory is leaking). Georgie has lived to almost 12 years old so she's had a pretty long life. She is my last Delaware, though. Isaac died back in 2015 and Georgie's sister, Ellie, passed on at 5 1/2 years old.
My birds have as comfortable time in temp extremes as I can give them, especially when they're up in years, some with arthritic joints. I wanted to open up Georgie's crop to get a look at what I think is a crop tumor , but Tom is not inclined to do that anymore. He has no interest in that nowadays. It may just be too cold to do that, something I normally do out on the picnic table.

 

[getaclue]

speckled, I have to agree with Tom about the crop surgery on Georgie. Primarily due to her age. At a certain age, people, nor animals do well with surgery. The older the patient, the harder to recover from major surgery. It tends to end up being a case of "the surgery was a success, but the patient died", type scenario.

 

[speckledhen]

speckled, I have to agree with Tom about the crop surgery on Georgie. Primarily due to her age. At a certain age, people, nor animals do well with surgery. The older the patient, the harder to recover from major surgery. It tends to end up being a case of "the surgery was a success, but the patient died", type scenario.

Oh, I didn't mean crop surgery! I meant doing a necropsy after she's gone. No way I'd do crop surgery on her now because the crop seems to be functioning normally, even with a tumor.
I went back and see now that I was not at all clear, sorry!

 

[getaclue]

Ok, got it. Yeah, that makes a lot more sense.

 

[speckledhen]

I don't even want to do crop surgery any more at all, even if I feel a crop is impacted. The main issue is rarely ever the crop anyway so you can clean that out and they'll come through the surgery just fine, but then, they die anyway because they still have the same internal problem.

 

[1muttsfan]

I'm sorry to hear about Georgie, a flock is just never quite the same without a Delaware in it

 

[speckledhen]

I got a Belgian D'Anver egg yesterday! Haven't seen one of those in over a year. Aimee is almost 10 and her daughter, Mina, is almost 9 so it's a miracle. I put it next to a Brahma egg after I weighed them. It's probably not fertile. Aubrey beat the heck out of Spike this a.m. and we had to rescue him. Spike is still not well, loses his balance a lot and under stress, just falls all to pieces.

 

[1muttsfan]

Poor Spike!

 

[speckledhen]

Poor Spike!

I know, I feel so bad for the little guy. I was in Hector's pen next to them and when I saw Spike in distress and losing his marbles, I yelled for Tom, who was in the barn aisle, to rescue him. Spike was so upset, he let him hold him up close without struggling. It took him a long time to settle down and stop hyperventilating. Aubrey knows he's ailing and is taking full advantage of that. I always expected Aubrey to kick the bucket with him always turning purple at the drop of a hat, but it may be Spike instead.