What did you do with your flock today?

[FBMcrazy8]

Well, my youngest spent all morning snuggling the baby ducks, so I couldn't get pictures til now...lol. There's 2 white, 2 black bibbed?...with excessive white so maybe not bibbed? And 2 snowies. What a nice mix! I think the snowies are both girls. It seems to me that the girls so far have all been born with mostly pink beaks and the boys with green. I'll have to do some more reading on colors to figure out if I'm right on that and if the black and white babies are messy bibs or something else.
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I plan to go to urgent care today, though to be honest, I really just want to sleep. I've slept a crazy amount the last couple of days though and that's not normal for me. So one more reason to make myself move and function. Curious to here what the doc thinks.

Oh they are just the cutest!! I had a couple snowies and silvers in my last set of duckies. I’m hoping to get more. They were just the cutest. My husband loved the bib ones, which I have to agree they were adorable too! I can’t wait to watch them grow up!

I think it is a good idea to see the doctor. Keep us posted! Sending lots of good vibes to you!

 

[FBMcrazy8]

So it has been spitting snow all day. I got a pretty good picture with the help from the light out in our drive way area. Thankfully nothing is sticking and the ducks and chickens are staying warm. These though were the best I could get.

We also moved the whelping box into the living room. We had it in a room adjacent to it with closing pocket doors. We thought she might like the privacy better but no…no she did not. So we moved her where we spend a lot of time so she didn’t feel so lonely. And maybe will take better care of her babies instead of trying to just be with us. Which could change after they are here anyway but better to start this way I feel.

 

[ChicksnMore]

Saw a doc. He can't tell what kinda of spider but thought recluse was a good bet. He prescribed a couple of antibiotics and said to do follow ups with my reg doc. Turned out I have 2 bites. The one I knew was there and a second in the area that I thought was a rash. The red finally died back to a smaller center blister hole with a red ring there.

Going back to bed....lol.

 

[FBMcrazy8]

Saw a doc. He can't tell what kinda of spider but thought recluse was a good bet. He prescribed a couple of antibiotics and said to do follow ups with my reg doc. Turned out I have 2 bites. The one I knew was there and a second in the area that I thought was a rash. The red finally died back to a smaller center blister hole with a red ring there.

Going back to bed....lol.

Well that is really good that you went to see a doctor! Glad the other one was spotted. And really good that you got on some antibiotics. Get plenty of rest and know we are all think about you! Sending you positive vibes! Good night

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

We also moved the whelping box into the living room. We had it in a room adjacent to it with closing pocket doors. We thought she might like the privacy better but no…no she did not. So we moved her where we spend a lot of time so she didn’t feel so lonely. And maybe will take better care of her babies instead of trying to just be with us. Which could change after they are here anyway but better to start this way I feel.

That's so sweet she wants to be right there with yall!!! I'm sure once they are born she's gonna be a good moma!!!

The little one I've been nursing for 2 weeks today is standing and walking today but crying a lot. It even went over to the feed bowls tried to eat but it would do a LOUD chirp every now and then...not sure if cause of grit in dry food or why. It hasn't been doing that though so that's new.
I've tried mash and it just will not eat it at all even though the others do! I tried the sugar water dropper and it just would not swallow. I keep prayin God please take this little baby on! Yesterday I really thought was it's last day cause hardly any sound put of it at all all day and it just stayed wrapped up in the little blankie I had for it.
But then this morning another rally...idk what to do.
Everytime u go to cull something stops me...not sure if it's cause I have hope, hate doing it, or God saying give it more time...
Have to go tend to mom today...her fever has spiked up to 102 and she still refuses to go to dr.
Idk how I'm not sick with whatever she has...please pray I don't get sick as I've been around both pregnant daughters and the grandbabies!!!
I so hate how life just keeps spiraling faster and faster and yet so many in this world are in even worse pain, health, etc.! I've always been the tender hearted? person that feels like life should stop when things are just so tragic...but it never does. And not sure if that is considered tender hearted or hopeless...I've always felt like I'm not honoring a loved one that has passed or is deathly ill unless I stop living too. Stupid I know.
But just how I'm wired.

 

[FBMcrazy8]

That's so sweet she wants to be right there with yall!!! I'm sure once they are born she's gonna be a good moma!!!

The little one I've been nursing for 2 weeks today is standing and walking today but crying a lot. It even went over to the feed bowls tried to eat but it would do a LOUD chirp every now and then...not sure if cause of grit in dry food or why. It hasn't been doing that though so that's new.
I've tried mash and it just will not eat it at all even though the others do! I tried the sugar water dropper and it just would not swallow. I keep prayin God please take this little baby on! Yesterday I really thought was it's last day cause hardly any sound put of it at all all day and it just stayed wrapped up in the little blankie I had for it.
But then this morning another rally...idk what to do.
Everytime u go to cull something stops me...not sure if it's cause I have hope, hate doing it, or God saying give it more time...
Have to go tend to mom today...her fever has spiked up to 102 and she still refuses to go to dr.
Idk how I'm not sick with whatever she has...please pray I don't get sick as I've been around both pregnant daughters and the grandbabies!!!
I so hate how life just keeps spiraling faster and faster and yet so many in this world are in even worse pain, health, etc.! I've always been the tender hearted? person that feels like life should stop when things are just so tragic...but it never does. And not sure if that is considered tender hearted or hopeless...I've always felt like I'm not honoring a loved one that has passed or is deathly ill unless I stop living too. Stupid I know.
But just how I'm wired.

I’m 100% positive she will be. She has honestly been good with the rescue kittens we had and the chickens and ducks. To have her own little ones would make this girls world.

I just read your thread with the ones poop. To me that doesn’t look like coccidiosis. In the research I have done, it would be more diarrhea like. It looks like intestinal lining. But it certainly can’t hurt to treat for coccidiosis. Hopefully all of them make it. I’m sure it’s trying and frustrating but they have made it this far and it seems like little by little they are getting better. Maybe I’m wrong but just from reading, the ones that started off bad are improving. The other reason I’m not convinced it’s coccidiosis is…was the older ones exposed to the dirt outside? Otherwise I don’t know that they would have been exposed to it. Maybe constipation is more the problem. Again just my guess.

Hopefully your mom will go the doctor after you get there. Praying you don’t get sick! And I get how you are. I’m slightly the same way!

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

I stupidly thought I was helping integration and the newly hatched chicks out by moving the 1 wk old cochin babies yo the big brooder in the run while the newly hatched silkies got familiar with the indoor brooder in my kitchen.
I then brought the lil cochins back in to be with the silkies in the same brooder for 5 days til the little one with wry neck happened and then the bloody poo started...then the little FTT baby has been just getting worse ever since.
The wry baby is all better! Thank God!!!
The FTT baby did have 2 big poos Friday so I thought we were on the upswing! But yesterday it was just lifeless.
So idk what to do bout it.
The others are all active and doing well...treating with corid for 6 more days just to be safe.
And I will NEVER do a mixed age brood again!

 

[FBMcrazy8]

I stupidly thought I was helping integration and the newly hatched chicks out by moving the 1 wk old cochin babies yo the big brooder in the run while the newly hatched silkies got familiar with the indoor brooder in my kitchen.
I then brought the lil cochins back in to be with the silkies in the same brooder for 5 days til the little one with wry neck happened and then the bloody poo started...then the little FTT baby has been just getting worse ever since.
The wry baby is all better! Thank God!!!
The FTT baby did have 2 big poos Friday so I thought we were on the upswing! But yesterday it was just lifeless.
So idk what to do bout it.
The others are all active and doing well...treating with corid for 6 more days just to be safe.
And I will NEVER do a mixed age brood again!

Aaawwww yeah that makes since to them possibly having Cocci. At least the others are doing great! Maybe just a little more time for the FTT.

 

[FBMcrazy8]

Since I have had time to look it up and figure out what my white chicken is, I believe now that it is a Rhode Island White. I didn’t even know that the hatchery had them, didn’t know they had an over $3,000 pair of birds either. If I spent that on a pair of birds….they would in a Fort Knox kind of home. Like more secure than even our own home.

 

[ChicksnMore]

That's so sweet she wants to be right there with yall!!! I'm sure once they are born she's gonna be a good moma!!!

The little one I've been nursing for 2 weeks today is standing and walking today but crying a lot. It even went over to the feed bowls tried to eat but it would do a LOUD chirp every now and then...not sure if cause of grit in dry food or why. It hasn't been doing that though so that's new.
I've tried mash and it just will not eat it at all even though the others do! I tried the sugar water dropper and it just would not swallow. I keep prayin God please take this little baby on! Yesterday I really thought was it's last day cause hardly any sound put of it at all all day and it just stayed wrapped up in the little blankie I had for it.
But then this morning another rally...idk what to do.
Everytime u go to cull something stops me...not sure if it's cause I have hope, hate doing it, or God saying give it more time...
Have to go tend to mom today...her fever has spiked up to 102 and she still refuses to go to dr.
Idk how I'm not sick with whatever she has...please pray I don't get sick as I've been around both pregnant daughters and the grandbabies!!!
I so hate how life just keeps spiraling faster and faster and yet so many in this world are in even worse pain, health, etc.! I've always been the tender hearted? person that feels like life should stop when things are just so tragic...but it never does. And not sure if that is considered tender hearted or hopeless...I've always felt like I'm not honoring a loved one that has passed or is deathly ill unless I stop living too. Stupid I know.
But just how I'm wired.

Not stupid or hopeless... just part of loving.

Not sure how you feel about masks, but might help to wear one with your mom to help the odds against catching what she has in your favor.

I'll keep your little chickies, your mom, kids and grandbabies all in my prayers.