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[microchick]

Thanks @ronott1. Will do. Baby is dried and almost fluffed. Pretty sure it is a pure bred EF. Just a tired baby from a rough hatching....I hope. It is moving around the incubator on occasions but just sags and goes back to sleep. If it can get the last of that egg yolk sack absorbed without a septic infection it will make it. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

I'm glad I caught the hen being nervous about this chick.She settled right down when I fetched it inside.

Just shows that you need to be able to 'read' your flock. The bantam hen, Cookie is just the picture of maternal bliss. I'll try to get a pic of her and her chicks before dark.

 

[ronott1]

Thanks @ronott1. Will do. Baby is dried and almost fluffed. Pretty sure it is a pure bred EF. Just a tired baby from a rough hatching....I hope. It is moving around the incubator on occasions but just sags and goes back to sleep. If it can get the last of that egg yolk sack absorbed without a septic infection it will make it. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

I'm glad I caught the hen being nervous about this chick.She settled right down when I fetched it inside.

Just shows that you need to be able to 'read' your flock. The bantam hen, Cookie is just the picture of maternal bliss. I'll try to get a pic of her and her chicks before dark.

I give chicks that act like that a drop of liquid vitamins.

Also, proved some starter and water for it

 

[microchick]

I can do that. I have rooster booster on hand.

I wanted to give everyone the heads up about something that happened today. I take Singulair oral for my allergies and have taken it for 5 years or more. Today I got a letter from my doctor, telling me that the FDA has black boxed Singulair (montelukast) for some pretty gnarly side effects, a lot of them psychological, anxiety, aggressive behavior, vivid nightmares/dreams, tardive dysconesia (geeze I hope I spelled that right) the list was long and scary. He told me to stop taking it NOW!

Weird thing is that I called my pharmacy and talked to a pharmacist. They hadn't gotten a flagged warning for it at all but when he looked it up, yep, he found it and told me that he takes it too but wasn't going to stop unless his doctor told him to......I told him mine had done just that and read him the letter. He couldn't offer any suggestions other to warn me that without it I would notice a worsening of my allergies. Like that would be different? This has been the allergy season from hell so far. But if my doctor said don't take it, I shouldn't take it till I can talk to them.

Not too happy about that but there is the point that over 55-60 a body stops breaking down and utilizing drugs differently. That may be why my doc told me to stop taking it but I wanted to give anybody who may be taking Singulair for their allergies to be aware of the black box warning.

 

[ronott1]

I can do that. I have rooster booster on hand.

I wanted to give everyone the heads up about something that happened today. I take Singulair oral for my allergies and have taken it for 5 years or more. Today I got a letter from my doctor, telling me that the FDA has black boxed Singulair (montelukast) for some pretty gnarly side effects, a lot of them psychological, anxiety, aggressive behavior, vivid nightmares/dreams, tardive dysconesia (geeze I hope I spelled that right) the list was long and scary. He told me to stop taking it NOW!

Weird thing is that I called my pharmacy and talked to a pharmacist. They hadn't gotten a flagged warning for it at all but when he looked it up, yep, he found it and told me that he takes it too but wasn't going to stop unless his doctor told him to......I told him mine had done just that and read him the letter. He couldn't offer any suggestions other to warn me that without it I would notice a worsening of my allergies. Like that would be different? This has been the allergy season from hell so far. But if my doctor said don't take it, I shouldn't take it till I can talk to them.

Not too happy about that but there is the point that over 55-60 a body stops breaking down and utilizing drugs differently. That may be why my doc told me to stop taking it but I wanted to give anybody who may be taking Singulair for their allergies to be aware of the black box warning.

Thanks!

I take Fexofenadine HCL (Allegra)

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good old fashioned Benedryl here

 

[microchick]

I do benedryl along with singulair. Gots me some bad you know what allergies.

 

[pennyJo1960]

So do I take twice daily morning and night .. Winter can back down to one a day

 

[microchick]

Little one isn't going to make it. It perked up and was screaming its head off when I got a couple of drops of rooster booster laced water down it an hour and a half ago before going out to mow.

I came in just now and checked it. Limp, breathing but non responsive.

So sad. I've been doing this for over 5 years now and know they all don't make it, still we struggle to save them....just in case we get lucky....just one time out of a hundred.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Thanks @ronott1. Will do. Baby is dried and almost fluffed. Pretty sure it is a pure bred EF. Just a tired baby from a rough hatching....I hope. It is moving around the incubator on occasions but just sags and goes back to sleep. If it can get the last of that egg yolk sack absorbed without a septic infection it will make it. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

I'm glad I caught the hen being nervous about this chick.She settled right down when I fetched it inside.

Just shows that you need to be able to 'read' your flock. The bantam hen, Cookie is just the picture of maternal bliss. I'll try to get a pic of her and her chicks before dark.

You could put some iodine on the area. Hope it does ok. I lost one like that.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Little one isn't going to make it. It perked up and was screaming its head off when I got a couple of drops of rooster booster laced water down it an hour and a half ago before going out to mow.

I came in just now and checked it. Limp, breathing but non responsive.

So sad. I've been doing this for over 5 years now and know they all don't make it, still we struggle to save them....just in case we get lucky....just one time out of a hundred.

Aw, so sorry.