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[Beer can]

So sorry you are suffering puppy regret. Is there any chance you could give her back to her original owner? If you're not meant to be a dog person, you're just not.




I had it and waited (5 days after onset) as I had my kid and his family here (they left <I asked them to> to avoid getting it) and was in no shape to go to the ER. 3 days in bed. Result was I ended up with massive UTI and in stage 3 renal failure. They wanted to admit me and I refused because of my animals. Went back the next day for after care. Long story short, 2 days of IV fluids and IV antibiotics followed by a 5 day course of antibiotics. I recovered and am fine, but it's nothing to mess around with! Get treatment, get rest, & don't forget, even if you don't feel up to moving, LOTS of fluids!

First flu I've had in over 40 years and I DON'T get a flu shot.

ETA: had to re-edit multiple times as I used the multi quote and it put everything inside the quoted text window. PITA to fix.

Only time I've had the flu since I was a little kid was the first yr we all got the flu shot. Was the worst Christmas ever, multiple kids puking from Christmas eve right through, and we were hosting Christmas dinner that yr Lol!

 

[Beer can]

We talked about it. BF likes the dog and doesn't want to give her up. She's okay most of the time. She oscillates between being Mary Poppins and Spawn of Satan. The SoS moments make me dogicidal. The MP moments are fine. I grew up with dogs around constantly. I was depressed when I moved out and didn't have any animals, so I got cats because I was apartment living and in school. Got used to cats over the last 20 years and their "lifestyle." Trying to get used to a dog is difficult.

Dogs/puppies are worst than kids, but I still like them. It's the chewing and tearing stuff up I can't stand. I've had a couple pups, boxer and the lab, never chewed stuff. All pups are different. DD's rat dog, min pin bichon mix (looks like a long haired chihuahua and tiny) does the revenge pooping. If she's mad at us for some reason there is guaranteed to be a turd in our bedroom. And you can tell she did it before you see it, she looks between guilty and satisfied

 

[Beer can]

A pandemic is long past due and when it happens next, with air travel and rapid movement globally, it will be major and impossible to stop once it's started. Gonna be very bad methinks...

My dad always called it 'goose fever' people get sick when the geese are flying south in fall north in spring, spreading all the germs, goose fever.

 

[chickadoodles]

Oh my BC that would be horrible for everyone.

 

[Beer can]

No plans this weekend for me, just getting one step closer to spring. Think I'll swap roosters today, the giant and the naked neck are going to trade girls. Thought I'd try hatching out something different. Not sure if I'll make it to the Easter HAL, would like to get some cooking earlier this yr.
Going to start making a tractor out of one of those big plastic caged totes to separate my two giant/silkie crosses. One hatched out a few giant eggs last yr, other hatched twice NN's. Like to get them in their own coop, make it easier when they go broody.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I'm so sorry @CapricornFarm. That is the way that it has been going with my Buff Orpingtons. I think I read where SS are almost as susceptible as Buffs when it came to Marek's Disease.

I have one lone SS hen that is almost three years old. She is the sweetest little hen but has had crop problems since she was a three month old pullet. She still has problems on occasions with her crop emptying completely and I have to give her a Dulcolax stool softener to settle things down. I suspected it was because she was a little piggy and would gobble food down like it was her last meal but later read that Marek's can cause crop problems in birds.

Some one on one of the Marek's threads said that it causes so many problems in chickens that after loosing a bird to classical Marek's paralysis they now just automatically says that every time a bird dies, they just categorize it as a Marek's death.

My little SS girl is one of the birds that I keep expecting to keel over but never does. I'm glad. She's a sweet bird, gentle natured and good with the other hens.

Once again, I'm so sorry that you lost another hen plus are still miserable from the flu.

Feel better, please.

Thanks. Hoping to feel better soon for sure. I may get some quail and maybe some turkeys.

 

[Latestarter]

Sorry you're sick and finding dead birds Cap. That really sucks. Double the reason to have a good cry. I feel for all you folks fighting (dealing, or trying to) with mareks. I suppose it's going to go on until survivors are able to reproduce and pass down the ability to survive through it. But it just seems like there are so many different ways that it attacks.

 

[ronott1]

People will be wearing masks in public soon!

I work at UC Davis. We have a high number of Asian students. They have been wearing masks for years

 

[ronott1]

I am on day 4. Was feeling a bit better until i found another dead chicken in my coop. So i cried a lot and slept a lot today.

I am sorry you lost one!

Hopefully you will not move into the bad secondary infection from the Influenza A

 

[ronott1]

Only time I've had the flu since I was a little kid was the first yr we all got the flu shot. Was the worst Christmas ever, multiple kids puking from Christmas eve right through, and we were hosting Christmas dinner that yr Lol!

That sounds like norovirus. Many call that flu as well as influenza. They are very different things though. Sometimes there can be vomiting from influenza but that is usually a response to a fast rise in fever.

The Flu shot is for influenza. There is no vaccine for norovirus yet that I know of.