Here there are more heart attacks, strokes and pneumonia from the smoke. There are long term health issues too.Arg!
Kid 3 (asthmatic and allergy kid) is now working at a shop 2 days a week ... I make him take a full on fancy respirator type mask.
Still not sure how often I should change those filters on it.
God I love the southern way of life. LOL. It's like the old joke about the guys sitting around a diner in Tennessee one Monday morning. One of them is reading a newspaper and says "y'all hear where Billy Joe Baker got himself shot dead Saturday night" One of the other men just drinks coffee and casually replies, "yep, he needed killin'.
Parasites or crop fungus of some sort?Well, what does 'bless your heart' mean in Southern culture. It's like this. You can say whatever you want aout somebody as long as you add 'bless (his, her, their, your) heart after it.
For example: "That boy is a worthless idiot that will never amount to a hill of beans, bless his heart"
Okay, serious now guys, I need your chicken sense. I have an under a year old bantam cross hen ( hasn't molted yet) that tonight was lagging outside long after everyone else was in. I caught her in a little shelter I have for them outside with an ardant young cockerel trying to have his way with her. When I picked rescued her and picked her up, I noted she was very thin. But acting normal. Put her inside on the roost, turned around and she was down eating from one of their feeders. I have about 5 feeders out for these little bullies just to make sure everyone has a chance to eat so food is not a problem.
I stood and watched her and she was standing erect like a bird does when they have a crop problem or egg bound. But she kept constantly acting like she was adjusting her crop.
Caught her, no palpable egg, abdomen soft, no fluid, no swelling, just thin. I had a rooster with throat tumors this summer so I checked her neck from beak down to crop. Nada. Her crop had a small amount of food in it, no mushiness, nothing out of the ordinary. When I put her down, she would close her eyes and keep making that crop adjusting maneuver.
I fully expect to find her dead within 48 hours if not sooner but I'm puzzled as to what may be wrong with her. Given that she is so skinny (walking skeleton type of skinny) it's obviouly been going on for awhile and she has been masking whatever is going on but it doesn't seem like a Marek's problem.
Any wild guess?
Sorry about the typos. Fingers aren't working too good tonight.
Do you have her in the hospital cage? I would give her vitamins and wet grower feed.Well, what does 'bless your heart' mean in Southern culture. It's like this. You can say whatever you want aout somebody as long as you add 'bless (his, her, their, your) heart after it.
For example: "That boy is a worthless idiot that will never amount to a hill of beans, bless his heart"
Okay, serious now guys, I need your chicken sense. I have an under a year old bantam cross hen ( hasn't molted yet) that tonight was lagging outside long after everyone else was in. I caught her in a little shelter I have for them outside with an ardant young cockerel trying to have his way with her. When I picked rescued her and picked her up, I noted she was very thin. But acting normal. Put her inside on the roost, turned around and she was down eating from one of their feeders. I have about 5 feeders out for these little bullies just to make sure everyone has a chance to eat so food is not a problem.
I stood and watched her and she was standing erect like a bird does when they have a crop problem or egg bound. But she kept constantly acting like she was adjusting her crop.
Caught her, no palpable egg, abdomen soft, no fluid, no swelling, just thin. I had a rooster with throat tumors this summer so I checked her neck from beak down to crop. Nada. Her crop had a small amount of food in it, no mushiness, nothing out of the ordinary. When I put her down, she would close her eyes and keep making that crop adjusting maneuver.
I fully expect to find her dead within 48 hours if not sooner but I'm puzzled as to what may be wrong with her. Given that she is so skinny (walking skeleton type of skinny) it's obviouly been going on for awhile and she has been masking whatever is going on but it doesn't seem like a Marek's problem.
Any wild guess?
Sorry about the typos. Fingers aren't working too good tonight.
Closed again today. The plan is to open on Monday. I have to wait until Sunday at 5 for the official word.
