*update* so kind yet thoughtless, but thanks!

[KlaHaYa Gardens]

Do give the in-laws a "gentle" update. Mention the health issues/concerns for the established flock. Try to inform, without being offensive.

Good luck. Sorry for the troubles.


I hope you enjoy those guineas!

 

[LizaBlue]

THEY'RE ALIVE! Figuring I had nothing left to lose on the turkeys last night, I put a gob of vaporub under each of their wings and this morning they were WALKING AROUND! Only for a second, but still, WOW! Last night talking to hubbie on phone while he was at work, we decided we were going to cull them today, so I was not looking forward to checking on them. Imagine my surprise! Well I got busy and cleaned up everything, wanting them to have a fresh start, and set about doctoring them as usual. Boy did they get fiesty! One jumped out of the basket and I had to chase it around the bathroom - I don't think he was looking for "death's door"! I took a cotton ball moistened with hot water and scrubbed their nasty faces and beaks, they all liked it except for the one I nearly drowned because I didn't squeeze enough water out of the cotton

but he forgave me and ATE some egg/catfood/codliver oil mash from my finger. I decided they were big enough to try a little pine shavings in their tub, and of course the little boogers who ignore everything and haven't eaten in 48hrs decided it looked like food

I only put them in the back though, and their food and water up front, and after I left them alone a few minutes they figured it out and they started eating mash instead. Looks like Thanksgiving dinner may be at my house after all, lol!

 

[GiddyMoon]

I really wish I understood why people do the things that they do. So many people just do not stop to think anymore. shaking my head totally mind boggled and needing more coffee emoticon....

 

[ams4776]

Glad everyone else seems to be recovering. My biggest pet peeve is giving animals away without talking it over first. My SIL decided she wanted goats. She gets her 3 and my inlaws bought a 4th for my son. I told dh i had no time for goats its SIL now and if its a hassel sell it. I wanted chickens not goats lol. 2 yrs later i got my chickens and loving em. (Fyi i was also prego at the time so i was outta commision for a while since the plan was nursing too. Thats why i waited so long for chickens)
Moral i held my ground and no more surprise pets lol. Maybe let em know you had trouble (nicely) and please talk to you before anymore surprises so you can be ready. No hurt feelings or anyhing then id hope.

 

[LizaBlue]

I would have no problem refusing gently or otherwise, my husband, however, wouldn't say no if they showed up with a herd of elephants! omg, I just visualized that...




I choose my battles when it comes to hubby and inlaws. I shouldn't have to make the trip to their tiny smoke infested trailer for at least 2yrs now, God love'em, and should be able to retire to the bedroom whenever I feel like it during their visits for at least a year. Don't get me wrong, I do like them and enjoy their visits...but you know how it can be.

But yes, I do agree, not even if you are married to someone should you EVER give them animals unless they have SPECIFICALLY and RECENTLY requested them, and even then the purchase should be done WITH them not as a SURPRISE! Not to seem overly emphatic there, lol. Heck, I almost feel as strongly about any gift - that's why at Christmas Hubby buys his own, I buy mine, we wrap them, and just so we get that surprise/excited/xmas morn feeling, we each unwrap the others' presents on Christmas day, it's a hoot! We do buy each other stocking stuffers though. It has cut down alot on wasteful spending imo, and I think it makes us appreciate the little things we buy each other much more. We both get what we want, and makes less stress for me: no having to pretend I like something or worry how much money he spent on something or did he like what I got him.

 

[ams4776]

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Picking battles with inlaws is a must expec with kids involved lol i love my inlaws but at times..... though living next door doesnt help.
for xmas i just set a money limit so we dont buy big things the other doesnt want but i love getting him stuff as a surprise. Usually i do good lol.

 

[cmfarm]

My father-in-law did something like that to me. I had 1 adult rooster by itself. I didn't want any chickens at that time because it was late fall and I had a young baby to care for along with 3 other kids. My Father-in-law decides to get a chick for us at the feed store. I told him he really should have got two if was going to get any, it would get lonely. It was, and would not shut up, it peeped constantly. Not to mention he didn't buy it any food or anything. My husband didn't have a job and I am a stay at home mom, (plus father-in-law was living with us and didn't have a job), so money was very tight. Luckly I had a heat lamp and feeder/water and cage to brood them in. I think he just thought we could throw it outside with the rooster and it could eat his food and everything would be great. Thankfully a near by feed store sold feed by the pound so I didn't have to buy a big bag. He then went and got another one for the first (it was much happier and quieter). He said they told him they were Dominiques but they were not, they really looked like some kind of mix.

 

[LizaBlue]

thought I'd let anyone keeping up know that one of the turkeys did die the other day, Wednesday night I think - weeks been such a blur. the other 2 are much livelier, in fact one has jumped out of the tub twice now : today it was pecking on the bathroom door trying to get out - I think I better hide my car keys tonight! lol

the guineas have about doubled in size this week. the turkeys don't really look bigger so much as they look fuller: the poor little thing that died I would have been ashamed to take to a vet - he looked like he'd been dead in the desert a week. they also look "cleaner." don't know how else to say it. before they looked all ragged, trampled on, cruddy faced, and just dirty all over. they are no where near as showy looking as my chickiebabies, but they are much improved. I really wish I knew what kind and how old they are. one is yellowish, one is brown and kind of looks like the bronze poult pics I've seen, but the poor baby that died was silver. sigh. they have fully feathered wings it looks like, but not much anywhere else.

does anyon know a good site for turkey identification?

 

[ReeseTheChick]

Aww. Sorry about your chick

I cried like a little baby when I lost 2 of my bantams. But it's nice to hear the other turkeys are doing better even though one didn't make it. No offense but it's not nice to bring someone birds that don't seem all that healthy in the first place because I end up getting attached to anything with a heartbeat so I would've been sad to see one of them die. I am glad though that you are making the others better

I couldn't ditch them and buy new ones. I don't know why but a lot of people I know say "Oh if you lose one just go get another!" I can't!!! Their my babies! I know they are only chickens but they are such sweet little birdies!

I love being known as a crazy person with a bunch of chicks!