My Heart's on Fire for Elvira

[whitelop]

Hen update. She seems to be doing a little better. She is more aware today, I guess you could say. She ate a little bit and drank a little water with some save a chick in it. I just dosed her with a big dose of antibiotics. And when my husband gets home I'm going to TSC to get some wormer and some permethrin for mites. You know, I was just at the feed store the other day picking up chicken feed and I was looking at the ivermectin and I thought about getting some for something, then I remembered that Ellie can't have ivermectin since she's a dutch and the other animals have wormer. So I didn't need it but I really did! haha. WAIT, I have wormer for cats and dogs and its...I can't remember, but I wonder if its one of the ones chickens can have. Then I wouldn't have to spend the money on the ivermectin. But I still need the mite stuff because I actually think she has mites and mites will suck the life right out of them and kill them! So I'm going down all avenues to see if I can fix her. Antibiotics, worming, mite treatment, special food, vitamin supplements. I don't know if there is much else I can do, but I've wracked my brain for things and this is what I've come up with! I'm glad I know a little bit about chickens and whats possibly maybe going on with her.

Ellie is having a blast in the kitchen. She's been pretty sweet today too!

 

[PaGal]

I thought about you with Ellie a little while ago. I went to give Thump his morning veggies and Oh My Gosh his room was a mess, hay was scattered everywhere. Usually the morning after being in the cage all night is when his cage is messy, it's mostly just his hay scattered everywhere. His cage was covered and it was scattered throughout his room. Then it dawned on me as I saw little paper towels roll tubes scattered about, some stuffed with hay. Some one posted a video last night on making small animal toys and I let the girls watch. I told them that today they could do that to help keep them busy and I know they like that kind of thing. So they made him a bunch of toys as well as ones they'll take for their guinea pigs at their mothers but they tracked hay everywhere!

One day you can bond with your son over making Ellie toys!

 

[Chrisdoc]

Oh, how she´s changed and I love those ears. She does look like the boss in the first pic and I love the last but one as you can see those gorgeous ears. She is a naughty girl but mine sometimes have days where they rip cardboard apart or throw hay everywhere, I suppose they all have days where they have something to say to us.

The situation with your MIL/FIL/SIL is so difficult. My older brother is a bit of an enabler as he always sits on the fence, doesn´t want to make decisions as he´ll be held responsable for them. But your MIL has to do that and take responsibility for your FIL if he´s not able to do it himself. Yes, the easiest solution would be for your SIL to live with them but she´s running from responsibility as well so that´s not gonna happen. But YOU have to step back, you can help and make suggestions but it´s not your responsibility to sort their lives out.

Taking video of events could help but he definitely needs help and your MIL is the one who has to take action on this.

 

[whitelop]

Oh I know, she is the one who has to take the steps of responsibility for all of this. I just have to vent it and then move passed it. My husband and I do it with each other and then we stop talking about it because theres nothing we can do.

I wormed the chickens, all of them. Thankfully I had the right wormer and the stuff I have is one of the better ones for chickens. So hopefully that will help if she DOES have worms. I am still so worried about leaving her here! AHHH!

Oh and I just ate a whole pizza. LOL

 

[Chrisdoc]

Morgan, Í´ve just finished 3 mini pizzas and they were so good. Just fancied them tonight so bought the bases and put on the topping...downed with a nice cold beer...heaven. I deserved it, I´ve had a really long day today.

 

[whitelop]

The pizza I ate earlier, I swear it was the first thing I've eaten since yesterday morning. But I don't really remember, I don't know if I ate dinner last night. ahah. How bad is that? haha. Pretty bad.

Well, its amazing the difference it makes when I put ALL of Ellie's litter boxes down! I had only been using the one in her cage and I would pull it out while she was out, but she wasn't using it. Today, I put all her boxes back in the kitchen and she's already used one of them multiple times. So hopefully she starts using them again! I know its my fault, but I didn't know that having all of them in such a small space was really making that much of a difference, but I guess it was.
I cleaned up her huge mess and boy, was that a lot of paper she shredded. I cleaned her cage out too and got all of that cardboard out. She took the top layer off the whole inside of a box, haha. It was A LOT. I should have taken a picture of the pile.

Now she's flopped out in the corner because she got some "special" hay that Jennifer sent her. Well, the last of it. It was just the little tiny pieces of alfalfa and I swear she inhaled them! I looked when I put them down and then I looked again a minute later and it was gone! LOL She's nuts.

 

[JBun]

Oh, my bunnies LOVE their daily alfalfa treat. I only give them a little pinch, and they just devour theirs too. Plus I have like 10 bales leftover from when I had my horse, so I'm not running out anytime soon.

That's good to hear that your hen is feeling a little better. When you are pretty sure an animal is about to die, it can't hurt much to try everything in hopes that you chance on the one thing that saves them.

Good girl Ellie I can't believe that such a little bun, requires so many litter boxes.

 

[whitelop]

I know Jenny, thats what I'm saying! She barely weighs 2 lbs but require 2 small boxes and one that could fit 6 of her! hahaha. How much more spoiled could she be? Hopefully when she gets spayed I can take away at least one box and just have the cage box and the out of cage box. If she's good after the spay hopefully she can just be a kitchen bun with just an always open cabinet! haha.

I just dusted the hen for mites. The babies ran off, but I put some dust in their coop for them to lay in. Her poop looks MUCH better! Its actually poop now! Yesterday it was liquid. I maybe think she could be egg bound, but I don't have any gloves that will allow for a vent check. :/ But her poop was solid and the right color when I went out there. Her crop feels like she's either eaten something or had some water, so hopefully its both! I think I'll continue to dose her with antibiotics until I leave and I'll even get one in on Friday before we set off. That way, hopefully she'll make it through the 4 days I'm gone. Hopefully the mite stuff works if it IS mites. If not, it never hurts to dust. Hopefully the wormer works if it IS worms. I only gave her like 0.5mL of wormer, so a lot less than a regular dose because it tends to bog them down and I don't want whatever COULD be ailing her to completely take over. When they get weak like this, its normally when e. coli takes over and I don't want that. Hell, it could be any number of things that she has, unfortunately all the symptoms look the same! AHH! I told my husband that I'm just going to try anything I can think of and concoct some things if need be. I'm just going to do this until she is REALLY suffering and then I'll be forced to end it. But hopefully, her poop says she's on the mend. She seemed a little more lively when I just went out there.
BUT like when bunnies get pasturella or EC, it never really goes away it stays with them and attacks when they get down. So hopefully its not pasturella or a mycoplasma because those never really go away. I also got her some oyster grit to mix into her feed, to help with calcium and I'll cut down on the calcium tabs.
I wish she could just tell me what is going on!

I just had to buy some TSC wood pellets and I've never used them. They're a little smaller than my regular ones, so hopefully they work the same. But the up side, they were cheaper than my regular ones!

Why are animals so stressful? Jeez, they're supposed to be cute and fun and EASY! NOTTTT! hahaha. Thats such a joke because nothing about any of these critters is ever easy.

 

[agnesthelion]

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[whitelop]

The worming is an in the water kind of thing. I gave the hen a straight dose though with a syringe.

Yes, the pine pellets for litter. I don't know the difference other than appearance but hopefully she likes them. I hope they don't stink! The ones I normally get from another feed store are amazing. THEY don't stink and neither does the pee when its wet! Hopefully this stuff is just as good, I can't remember the name and they're in the trunk.
Ellie is a spunky gal! She's so funny. She was just flopped behind a box, like I couldn't see her! I don't know why she doesn't flop in front of me...maybe one day. OMG she's started digging her her litter boxes, she's trying to give me gray hair! LOL

Yeah, I'm pretty bad about eating. Its not great, but somethings I'm just like "ahh screw it" then sometimes I really don't think about it and I'm like whoa this is the first time I've eating in a long time! hahah. Terrible. But I do feed my son and he has good eating habits, thats what's most important.

 

[holtzchick]

LOL... yeah, that's the exact habit that I've been trying to stay away from... Eating like 2 huge meals a day and then not eating... it's just so bad, I try to eat very regularly like 6-7 meals a day and when I do it's great, but when I go back to old ways, it's SO hard to stop....

Glad to hear your hen is showing better signs of improvement!! Hopefully you hit the head right on the nail with treatment for worms!

I hate how buns just flop whenever you're not around and IF you're lucky, you'll see them, but mostly when you're not around.... sigh. Phoenix digs in her litterbox all the time! I've heard digging is more of a female habit not to say that males don't dig though.

 

[agnesthelion]

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[whitelop]

On most days I eat one big meal a day. Yesterday, I ate a whole pizza in the middle of the day and then ate like a side of steamed broccoli for dinner because I was still full from the pizza. haha.

Ellie's digging in her litter box isn't THAT bad. She was digging her in bigger box yesterday and she only got like 3 pieces of litter out of the box on the floor. That normally comes out when she hops out anyway, so it wasn't terrible. But she mixed everything up, her litter with her hay and her hay with her poop. I guess she doesn't mind, but I wouldn't want to eat it! hahaha.
She didn't sleep in her box last night, she slept in her litter box. I wonder why? She's so strange sometimes and so hard to figure out! I'm going to let her out today and see how she does with having all her litter boxes back, hopefully she does will. She's still getting an x-pen when we go out of town, but hopefully she can be a good girl today! And hopefully she doesn't make a mess of the x-pen when we're gone. haha.

I just went out and checked the hen, no significant improvement, other than, you know...her being alive. She seems disoriented still and just a little slow still. I'm going to give her another dose of antibiotics in a minute and hope that helps! I haven't even had any coffee yet today! I just got back from getting AJ's hair cut and my hair colored. I feel like I have so much to do and not enough hours in the day! I didn't sleep well last night either, because my husband is terrible to share a bed with. I wake up like every hour to get the covers back or to get one of his limbs off me, its so irritating. No wonder I'm always in such a bad mood, I haven't gotten any sleep since I was 16, even before we got together! haha.

Anywho, so much to do. I feel like the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland.

 

[whitelop]

So on Lyndy's blog, Michelle said something about getting rowdy when she drinks, I said I wish I could blame my rowdiness on drinking, but its just me! haha.

Anyway, I want to say some stuff about myself. I'm not actually completely crazy! I'm a totally normal person, I don't flip out in public a lot. I HAVE but it's always been under extreme circumstances. I do have a problem with tailgators and people who drive like morons. But for the most part, I can go into even the most disgusting walmart and keep my cool.
BUT there are some things that you can't talk about in front of me, without bracing yourself for the verbal explosion that usually ensues.
1. Japan. F-them.
2. Pocahontas.
3. Missionaries.
4. Religion.
5. Cannibals.
6. My SIL.
7. Racism.

But as long as most people steer clear of those topics above, I'm a pretty normal person. I only flip out if I feel like I have to! haha. I know it seems like I'm a little frantic on here because I'm able to freely type. But most of this stuff doesn't come out of my mouth, most of it is in my head and thats where it stays until I type it out. So outwardly, you'd think I was any other yoga pant loving, coffee and wine drinking, stay at home mom, but inside isn't so pleasant. hahaha. I'm sure some of you think "this girl is CRAZY! She goes around eating people and stuff!" But I really don't. Its easier for me to write everything out than it is to say it.
There are some amendments to those topics though...if I'm in a bad mood, walk away. Your best chance at survival is to walk the hell away! Because if I go into something in a bad mood, everything just blows up around me. True story.

And yes, I did say Pocahontas.

 

[PaGal]

Well now you just have me curious to which way you lean on any of those subjects or what it is about a particular subject that sets you off. I could hazard a guess with each but I also know people can be surprising. Sorry you just awoke my curiosity and I have always been very curious about what people think and why and just the psychology aspect of people. When I was younger I devoured every book I could on serial killers but the ones that got a little more into the persons past and why they might have turned out like that not the ones that just basically recount all of the gory details.

 

[whitelop]

Hahaha. Well you asked for it Denise!
1. Japan. I hate them because they kill an inordinate amount of dolphins and sharks every year. Its the way they go about it, secretive and sneaky and shady. I don't like it. I also don't like that they fin the sharks and dump them back into the water. Its cruel and the sharks basically drown because they can't move to breath. That is another reason I don't like Seaworld and places like that, because when the fisherman lure the dolphins in, the trainers come and pick out dolphins to take to amuse people. Its horrible, therefore I hate Japan. China isn't too far behind, but they don't get under my skin like Japan.

2. Pocahontas- the movie more than the person. Its all a lie. She was like 12, she married John Raulfe not John Smith and she went to England and died of the plague when she was 18. She never came back to America so Pocahontas 2 is a load of crap. Yes, your childhood...ruined!

3. Missionaries- I don't think that white people should go force religion on other people. You can't go to a tribe of people who believe in someone other than YOUR god and tell them their going to hell, a place they probably don't totally believe in or theirs is different, and then make them convert to your religion and abolish their tribal ways. Its wrong and I hate people like that. My husband works with someone like that, I stay away from him because he doesn't want to know what I have to say.

4. Religion- its all a little shady to me and I don't know about it. haha. I feel like religion is like the creepy uncle that you just want to stay away from and not talk to. I know what I know and I know how I feel, but I'm still on the fence about a lot of things. And a lot of things don't make sense and are totally unrealistic.

5. Cannibals- I don't have a problem with people eating people, I think thats population control. But they didn't hunt men, they killed the person who killed one of their tribe members and ate them. They didn't just seek people out because they wanted to eat someone, there were reasons and their gods told them to do it. It brings me back to missionaries, they told the tribes that they couldn't practice cannibalism anymore because it was "ungodly", but ungodly to who? The christians, well duh, they think everything is ungodly. But to the tribesmen, they didn't think anything was wrong with it and it was to them, kind of "an eye for an eye". Makes sense to me. Most of it stems back to missionaries though, because they like to tell people what to think.

6. My SIL- well, we all know she's a useless piece of crap and I could go on for days. But a useless piece of crap, pretty much sums it up!

7. Racism- I am not racism to one specific color of people. I hate everyone, every color equally. Unless I know you. I think there are stereotypes for a reason because people are stereotypical. I think everyone fits a stereotype and we can pretty much lump most people into their own groups. I think people as a whole are stupid and gross and ungrateful and horrible. So for me it doesn't have much to do with your color, rather just what you're doing and what comes out of your mouth. I think full on racism is ignorant and should be avoided. I don't believe in picking someone out of a group just based on race and saying "I don't like you". Thats what Hitler did and we all know how that ended. I think everyone tries to blame everyone else for everything that is wrong with the world, but really you are your own scapegoat and no one else is to blame. So I just hate everyone. I say that my racism is nondiscriminatory.

And there you go. Those are my short answers to all of those things. But jeez, you put me in front of someone and everyone else should back away. Especially about the missionaries and japan. My husband got caught in the crossfire of a missionary rant once and got mad because I was yelling at him. I told him I wasn't yelling at HIM I was yelling because I was upset and I was yelling at the missionaries(who were not in the car with us) LOL

 

[Chrisdoc]

Well, that´s really good to know cos when I finally meet you Morgan, I´ll know which subjects to avoid.

I agree with you on Japan. I hate when we kill things senselessly just to obtain a really small part of that animal and what for in the end. so much waste and senseless suffering.

I´m so hoping the hen will get better, she sounds like such a good little hen.

I laughed at you fighting for the cover in bed...sometimes, it´s so good to live along lol.

 

[agnesthelion]

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[PaGal]

Well I can agree with you on all of those except Pocahontas (the movie), I haven't seen it so will have to take your word on it all being wrong but that's not too hard for me because Hollywood does like to re-write things. Also, I have to take your word for it about your SIL, although if she is as you have stated just even yesterday then IMO yes she is and I have no reason not to believe you.

My husband and I can both be the same way depending on the subject at hand. Sometimes it gets quite loud here as we get so passionate and start yelling. Funny thing is we always have the same views but we still yell as we are passionate about it. That by the way is my hubby's term for it, passionate. He's funny though because he speaks well and does not have much of an accent but boy when he gets mad does it come out and get thick. Ha! Because of that in a weird way I love it when he's mad, he just seems so scary in a way that you just know he could snap some one in half but not scary for me because I'm not worried he'll snap me in half, plus the thick accent comes out.

I think with me, I have those subjects I always feel strongly about but also depending on the mood I can go off on other things just as much.

 

[whitelop]

Ellie is trying to escape! haha.

She's so shiny.