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<\/a>The big shelter has become the shelter of choice<\/p><\/div>\n
The girls seemed a little brighter in the first half of the day (both yesterday and today) but always seem to look a bit worse in the afternoons. Freckles and Dandelion had bubbles in their eyes again in the afternoon but were able to blink them away.<\/p>\n
They were all in the chicken shed by four o’clock yesterday and all snuggled up tightly together.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Night time view from our front window with Christmas lights opposite<\/p><\/div>\n
More snow had been forecast for today but it turned out to be sleet so at least it didn’t settle. By the afternoon the snow was beginning to disappear.<\/p>\n
The girls haven’t wanted to come to the patio so much while it was darker so both yesterday and today I made up little dishes of mash with tylan water and put one on the patio, one inside the big shelter and one outside of the big shelter. This seems to encourage the girls to eat the mash.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>This morning most of the girls are in the big shelter<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>Apricot is eating from one of the dishes that I have put around the shelter<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>Cinnamon is the most well and is busy digging and pecking<\/p><\/div>\n
My vet called this morning to see how the girls were getting on. She had asked advice from the other vets. Another vet suggested vitamin drops to help to boost their immune system. I said that I had looked for them at my pet store but they didn’t have any. I asked if they could order some in for me and she said that wouldn’t be a problem.<\/p>\n
She said the other vet had said that sinulox was her second medication to try after tylan. We discussed researching it first to make sure it isn’t a medication that means you can’t eat the eggs. Baytril means you can never eat the eggs again and I am now wary of checking this. This was what I used for Caramel and Pebbles and I had no idea at the time that it meant you couldn’t ever eat their eggs again. I am much hotter on doing my own research now.<\/p>\n
She also said it has to be administered to the girls beaks. I said that would be quite stressful to the girls and I would prefer to go for something else that could go in the water such as denaguard. She said she would look into the possibility of gettng that.<\/p>\n
We discussed that I am now on day nine of the tylan and we are intending to go for twelve days so she said to continue as I am for now. I have to say that I am very impressed with these vets. They seem to be trying to do their very best for me and she has taken the time to call me.<\/p>\n
At the end of the day I thought the girls were sneezing a bit less so I\u00a0 think we are hanging in there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The snow seems to have changed the girls’ habit from hanging out in the small shelter to hanging out in the big shelter. I’m not sure if it’s because the entire run is darker than usual meaning the big shelter … Continue reading