oh wow! and i have to put the dust on each bird individually??!wow! anybody want some chickens?!! and again i ask, how is the sevin dust safe for HIS skin but not mine???? it says to avoid skin contact. ?????? also, poor benny sounds "raspy", for lack of a better word. when i lift his head to give him fluids, i can hear air inside his passageways. the other day i noticed his craw/crop (??) was enlarged so i massaged it a little and i'm guessing it was all the water i had given him????? when i massaged it, it went down...so now i rub it everytime i give him fluids. ???????? is there more to his condition that i'm unaware of?? so lost right about now...up at 6 a.m. to reheat his water bottles and he doesn't look as good now as he did last night.
he is pretty much the same as he's been since tuesday when i brought him inside. at least outside he was trying to walk around!! it seems as soon as i brought him in, he plummeted to almost comatose!! He still responds by opening his eyes, he still drinks the fluids i put in his mouth via medicine dropper, he still poops (and the last ones have had some consistency to them i guess bc of the vitamins??) and he will flap his wing pretty hard...oh and he also seems to stretch his feet a little more. overall, i'd say he's TRYING to recover, but still having trouble, especially with his neck. perhaps if i could get that part "fixed", he might would attempt to stand up on his own. ??? weather is too bad here today to venture out for the safeguard so it will have to be tomorrow before i get that. also, i put the dust on him mid afternoon yesterday and almost immediately, mites started dropping but as of last night, i could still see some crawling around. do i need to add more dust or give more time?
