Zane Made REAL Progress (New Pics Pg 99)!RIP Lorelei...

[gumpsgirl]

Good morning Cyn! I'm doing my daily check-in on Zane and Lorelei. How's everyone this morning?

 

[speckledhen]

Lorelei is acting normally this morning, off on her own, exploring. Zane isnt looking well. He will barely open his eyes and his color is bad. He at first refused food, but I kept at him till he took a few bites. I put together the large wire dog kennel on top of the broody pen where he'd been staying where he can get more light-the window is up there. There is a red flood lamp for heat hanging inside the cage and I put him a cushy bed of soft straw and shavings. I knew I'd need the broody pen for this weekend when Olivia's egg is due to hatch and I had thought maybe Zane would be on his feet by then, but it isn't looking at all good today for my boy.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

Oh Cyn. It's such mixed news. I'm glad Lorelei is acting normally but, Zane. I sure hope it's just a bad morning and he improves as the day goes.

 

[wegotchickens]

If it was cold and rainy there yesterday, then maybe he's just feeling it in his bones. Some sunshine and warmth might be just what he needs.

 

[gumpsgirl]

I'm sorry and sad

to hear that about Zane. If the sun comes out today, maybe it will help him to feel better.

I am happy to hear that Lorelei is out and about! That's a good thing!

Sending hugs your way.

 

[speckledhen]

Gee, I wish it'd warm up! It's sunny, but breezy and very cool, only in the 50's right now. We pulled Zane out and I took him in the house to sit on my lap in the rocker. We trimmed his beak a little-it had grown too long with his inactivity. DH made him eat a bread balled up with a little aspirin in it and took him outside to hold him in his own lap in the sunshine. We are trying to make him fight before he just gives up entirely. His entire body just pops and creaks when you pick him up or he shifts his weight.

 

[gumpsgirl]

I wish I could tell you what all of the popping meant Cyn. Geez! This poor boy has really been through it. I am glad to hear that Zane is out and sitting in the sun with your DH. That is probably just the exact place he wants to be! Give him hugs for me.

 

[SpottedCrow]

Dang, Cyn...what a roller coaster.

 

[speckledhen]

It sures is up and down with him. First, I think he's showing lots of improvement, then he's acting like he'll pass over before the end of the day. Today, he scared me pretty good. I just don't know. The boy has not a whit of meat on his bones left, part of it being lack of muscle tone, I'm sure, part of it, just from not eating 1/4 of the usual amt of food. I have no idea where I stand right now with Zane.

 

[Farmer Kitty]