What did you do with your flock today?

[TropicalBabies]

It's a mystery, no one else has any symptoms. It's either a stroke, seizure or perhaps poison spider bites...maybe he pecked a nest of baby spiders, we have Black Widow, Brown Recluse & Hobo. My sweetheart was bitten by Hobo spider last April & it made him sick for a week. I don't know...just hope he will be ok.

Wow. That's scary. 🕷
Good you have capable healing hands glad you had some extra time @ home to be with them. Works out nice sometimes 🌤

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Wow. That's scary. 🕷
Good you have capable healing hands glad you had some extra time @ home to be with them. Works out nice sometimes 🌤

Yes it is fortunate I've been typing up work orders and job contracts when it's still cold & misty in the mornings, or raining, and then in the afternoons I've been cleaning up one of the job sites outsite, cutting up larger debris, etc., so I finish that up today. It's good to be with 2 birds on the mend in the mornings, I can check over, give meds, change bandage, clean poo, they sort of hunker down for naps in the afternoon, anyway. There's a skylight over the tub and the sun streams in and they just hunker down on their fresh towel, enjoying it. This morning at sunrise Romeo crowed again & it sounded much better!

I can't find a mark on him, so there goes the spider bite theory. Maybe he had a stroke? Poor boy.

 

[kurby22]

I finished my beer can chicken Didn't quite manage to use up the caulking gun of liquid nails left from my kitchen work. So thinking of making a hen to go with my goofy roo.View attachment 3447366View attachment 3447368View attachment 3447370
I shoulda cropped the pictures eh! Tried to go for a mottled dwarf look ... doesn't really look like a dwarf but I had fun and kinda like him.

I love him!! He’s so awesome Your patience with metal is astounding to me

 

[kurby22]

Aww sweet, love those shoulder snugglers

Here's my heavier shoulder snuggler, Romeo.
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Had a big scare with him the past few days. I still don't know if he had a seizure of some sort or was bitten by a poisonous spider. He is recovering in the bathtub now along with little Misty Violet. 1st saw him in distress, outside 5 days ago, he was hunkered down where they dustbathe, all by himself. I was walking by with a handful of fresh chickweed. Usually at the sight of that he will jump up, but he just looked up at me & did a pitiful, moaning crow sound. I swear it looked like he was just looking up at me with sad eyes saying "Mommy, Help me!"

I immediately threw the chickweed to everyone else, scooped my poor boy up & brought him in the house, trying to figure out what was ailing him. He couldn't even stand up & was trembling. I could not find any indication or symptom of illness. Eyes, nares, ears & throat perfectly clear, breathing normal, poop looking normal, no apparent injuries... he did have some mites which I addressed. I gently cleaned him & set him up alone, but then he wasn't eating or drinking, unless I held the food & water for him. For 2 days I fed & nurtured him, along with activated charcoal, unflavored pedialite & Sav a Chic probiotics, easy to digest Hentastic pellets made with vitamins, mealworms & oregano which he loved, & live mealworms I breed. He finally could stand up a bit, so I gave him a warm oatmeal & Lavender shampoo & hair dryer while on my lap, he loved it, then put him in with Misty Violet. Both of them pecked at food & drank (1st time he did so, without me having to hold it for him) then they snuggled up together & slept the night. 2 days together & then thank goodness, yesterday, Romeo stood completely up without leaning on something. This morning he let loose a sickly crow, but a crow is a crow! He has been walking gingerly in the tub, eating & drinking on his own, preening & crowing whenever my Roos outside crow. I've been fortunate to be able to work from home mostly the past few days, to check on them often & clean poo, change their snuggle towels, etc. So far so good. I still have no idea what happened to this sweet boy, but I'm grateful he is on the mend.

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Update on Misty Violet, wound is looking good!
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Your shoulder roo is gorgeous I hope his issues were temporary!

 

[kurby22]

@ChicksnMore i just realized we haven’t gotten any updated pictures of Snug! How is he and what’s he looking like these days?

 

[Shetland lover]

It's a mystery, no one else has any symptoms. It's either a stroke, seizure or perhaps poison spider bites...maybe he pecked a nest of baby spiders, we have Black Widow, Brown Recluse & Hobo. My sweetheart was bitten by Hobo spider last April & it made him sick for a week. I don't know...just hope he will be ok.

Could well be any of those things. If he's anything like my chickens, he'll think any spider is a delicacy. Fortunately, the most venomous spider we have over here is the European Brown Recluse and tbh, it's not particularly venomous in itself, it's the necrotizing bacteria it carries on it's mandibles that's the issue (as I know all too well). We do get the odd black widow in the South. I understand Hobos' are pretty nasty though.

 

[TropicalBabies]

Mo'o Mele brought me a spider as a gift.

And Spider looking fabulous waiting for for me to open the gate.
K. Those are my spider stories.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

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Mo'o Mele brought me a spider as a gift. View attachment 3448116
And Spider looking fabulous waiting for for me to open the gate.
K. Those are my spider stories.

We always have a bunch of these ladies around, too. Golden Orbs, they're cool though.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Eewwwwee! I can't take the spiders yall!!!

Ok here's one if the Buff boys I had such a difficult time getting to live once they hatched! They were all sickly cuz I stupidly had 2 hatches within 5 days each other and thought I was helping by letting the 2nd hatch - all my buffs have the brooder to themselves while the older cochin babies went to the outside brooder to play for 24 hours...not realizing I could bring I'm coccidiosis to the Buff babies! Then one had wry neck and then I lost one of the 5 to failure to thrive.
Anyways...3 outta 4 that lived of course were boys! Lololol
Kept the 2 best lookin ones and have begun working with them.
Meet Sonny!
The one I sold was Sonny and this was Cher...but i just knew it was much too large to be a girl and kept waiting for signs of boy but nothing!
Sold the original Sonny to my brother's wife and the very next morning after that boy was gone don't ya know Cher crowed....so Cher is now my Sonny!
Lolol

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• Gammas Bearded Babies
• Mar 29, 2023

5 months

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

I love him!! He’s so awesome Your patience with metal is astounding to me

Ain't it though!?!
I could never!
I've said more dirty words than I care to remember just moving the 19 gauge hardware cloth around to try and finish up the new addition!
Man that stuff is awful!!!


Speaking of awful...
So my boys definitely know it is springtime! New addition can't get done soon enough! So ole bootyhead Joey is doing his one year molt meanwhile Bluey is doing major payback to Joey and I noticed his skin on his hind end is red ... not bleeding but very irritated from all the pecking!
Is there something I should put on there to help it so it doesn't get worse?