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

[getaclue]

I didn't think of a cat fight when I saw the wounds. You are right, there are usually face, and ear wounds when they're in a cat fight. He looked more like he was scraped. Maybe from climbing something that didn't support his weight, and he fell, or something like that.

 

[getaclue]

How's he feeling today?

 

[speckledhen]

How's he feeling today?

He seems a little more like himself, but still not out hunting in the pasture and being his normal "livestock guardian cat" self. He's really such a good cat if you're going to even have a cat; I really hope he stays out of wherever he got hurt in the first place.

 

[h2oratt]

I do find it strange that I have taken two birds in. One has mareks and one has avian lueko something.

I will just let my birds be. I am not going to disinfect. My birds free range. I will just not spend money on birds or try to do any breeding and showing. I am fine with that.

I know lots of people have birds die. They don’t know why and won’t because most people cannot get a necropsy for 20 bucks. I know speckled hen said she wouldn’t even trust 5he results she got from her state vet.

On another note I am have a bird that is crested in a barred pattern. It is very pretty but it’s prob a boy. I just bought an instapot to process all these roo I have.

 

[speckledhen]

I know lots of people have birds die. They don’t know why and won’t because most people cannot get a necropsy for 20 bucks. I know speckled hen said she wouldn’t even trust 5he results she got from her state vet.

You are right on all counts.

 

[getaclue]

Here in FL, if you're NPIP they do your necropsies for free. I don't think they're more than $20.00 even if you don't participate in the NPIP program.

 

[speckledhen]

Georgia is free and still, no bargain. They don't give a crap about backyard flocks, only the commercial ones. That is why they exist, to protect big agri-biz, hence the commercial food supply (supposedly), and that is the only reason. So, the results you get from the state vet are not reliable.

 

[h2oratt]

Here in FL, if you're NPIP they do your necropsies for free. I don't think they're more than $20.00 even if you don't participate in the NPIP program.

We just checked for someone in Indiana. It was 125. And you have to mail the bird in for additional cost.
I think states with big Agri budget can do it. It really does give them the priceless information on the state of the health of backyard flocks.

 

[getaclue]

They do a good job on the necropsies here, at least for now. We have a pretty good agri budget though. It's not just for the big farms, since we have plenty of medium sized family farms, and smaller hobby farms, along with backyard flocks.

 

[speckledhen]

Are you ready for a wild ride crazy story? Well, my husband is like a dog with a bone. He was very experienced with family research from his own family history, but I assigned him the task of doing mine on Ancestry, linking the DNA matches of 1st through 8th cousins to find the one magic bullet that would get me the verification of who my biological father was. Was it Bobby Fuller, who was married to my mother, who was supposedly off in the Marines when I was conceived? Was it Wade Westberry, also a teenager at the time and involved with other girls, already a father and the boy that the Fullers said my mother June was having an affair with while Bobby was off in the Marines? Was it the brother of a guy named Plummer that my supposed 1st cousin Paula had on her birth certificate? Ancestry says that that match can be a degree or two off, but she is definitely a very close relative so we held our judgement on that and Tom researched all the potential families involved.

The search led me right back to what I was told all along. A DNA match to a cousin led to his relatives and a DNA match to a guy named Donald Roy Westberry (weird because my husband's late brother's name was Donald Ray). Donald Westberry is the brother of Anna Mae Waters Westberry, William Wade Westberry's mother. He went by Wade. He is my father, it does appear. Now, for Paula....her mother, Anne Plummer, lied to her, apparently. She was told all her life that her father was a man named Robert, a mortician in 50's Miami, FL. But, her birth certificate says Anthony Plummer. There was no Anthony Plummer that we can find, in the funeral home industry or anywhere in Miami at that time, or really, anywhere. Also, there was no Robert Plummer, either. Plummer was Paula's mother's maiden name, but also the name of the partner of my grandfather in the Ahern-Plummer funeral home, Joseph Plummer, Sr.

We spoke with Joseph Plummer, Jr, who is now 81 years old. His brother was in politics, not in the industry, and never married, died about 14 years ago. Joe said there never was an Anthony Plummer or Robert Plummer in the industry there, that the only Robert was my own grandfather, Robert E. Wixsom. Bob Wixsom was a raging alcoholic and womanizer, well-known to everyone as such. His wife, also an alcoholic, sat in the house drinking all day long while the maid handled everything in the house, including my mother's needs. He also had an apartment above the funeral home he stayed in quite a lot, probably took women there. Paula's mother was a nurse in a hospital in Miami in 1953 when she was born, a good position in which to meet a funeral home director/ mortician. Seems to us that she got pregnant by my grandfather and since he was a prominent Miami businessman and married with a daughter, she put a name on the birth certificate. She actually left Miami, too, and went back to the family home in Ohio to have the baby, another clue that it was a shady thing. Why she chose the Plummer name, which was her own maiden name and also, the name of Bob Wixsom's partner, I don't know. But, since my DNA leads me back to Westberry in the end, Paula and I must be related on my mother's side. It can only be one thing, my pervy grandfather. That makes Paula my aunt, not my 1st cousin.

I did not believe I was a Westberry because they really look opposite to me in coloring and bone structure, but I look like my mother, who looks like her father. My older sister, Lynita, looked like our grandmother, Olga.

Here is the pervert grandfather himself. Looks like someone on Perry Mason. And my mother, June. And me closer to the same age.


And Wade Westberry with his mother, Anna Mae