u/Cirrus646

URGENT help with sick bird

I brought her to the vet already but want to make sure I'm doing everything possible. She's ~9-10 weeks and we've had her for a little over a month. She was great all day yesterday, I was outside with them most of the day. Let her out at 7:30 this morning and all was well, then when I checked on her during a work break at 10 AM (I work from home) she wasn't with the flock and was very puffed up, standing with her eyes closed. I picked her up and she just melted in my arms, and she is a snuggly chick but usually resists being picked up. They free roam for 5-8 hours/day but we are usually out to more or less supervise, we don't use anything toxic at all in the garden or elsewhere. None of the other 5 chickens she coops with are showing symptoms. She had green diarrhea at the vet and the fecal was negative for bacteria or parasites, but it may have been too small a sample. They sent me home with antibiotics and I've been syringe feed and watering her for a few hours now. This morning she did eat some meal worms but wasn't interested in food, and I got her to drink some ACV water on her own but now she's only drinking through syringe. She is now very lethargic and sleeping in my daughter's arms. I have her drinking ACV/electrolyte/probiotic water through a syringe and eating mushed up crumble with the same water mix and a tiny bit of liquid vitamin A through a syringe every 1-2 hours for now. She is inside and warm.

We have 5 other chickens and a turkey outside and 4 chicks and 3 poults inside so I'm trying to prevent anything spreading and have quarantined her and will wear different clothes to care for her. The green poop indicates that she has been off food for a while, but I saw her eating throughout the day yesterday, hunting and catching bugs, and she went wild for mealworms several times so I'm stumped. As far as I know they are not vaccinated for Marek's. I'm worried that this sounds like Newcastle disease, and we picked up the 4 new chicks and 3 poults this weekend. The new birds have never interacted with the other chickens and older turkey, and they are kept inside. But we did wear the same clothes to interact with both flocks. Could that have caused exposure? And has anyone had a bird come back from something similar?

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u/Cirrus646 — 23 hours ago

Are my cream legbars pullets or cockerels?

I know they're auto sexing but I'm not 100% sure they're actually cream legbars. They're about 9-10 weeks old now and have been with me since 5 weeks when I got them from a local poultry breeder along with 2 easter eggers and 2 ameraucanas. The birds in question are the ones with the darker pink crests. One is gray with rust colored feathers and is solo in the first pic, the other has a yellow breast with gray wings and is in the middle in the second pic. Third pic is the all gray with rust one again because this is the really dominant bird. Both their crests have 3 lines which I thought meant cockerel. They do not have any wattle growth yet. Also the darker gray one made a sound that was like a soft crow this morning... we have 4 more unpictured baby chicks and I'm pretty sure one will end up being a roo so I'm trying to figure out what to do if we already have roosters! And yes they love to hang out under our porch despite having an acre of beautiful grass lol. All the dirt baths all the time.

u/Cirrus646 — 2 days ago
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This very sweet and friendly turkey showed up on our farm yesterday. I've never seen a wild turkey here in central Virginia but they do exist here. She (I think?) is alone, very friendly with my kids and follows them around, and really likes our young chickens and wants to hang out with them. She drank readily from a poultry waterer and has been here all night and all day today, and we'd love to keep her around and keep her safe if she isn't wild. We made her a makeshift run and gave her a large dog igloo to sleep in but she's not interested in going in the dog igloo yet. If she ends up staying we will of course build her a turkey appropriate run and with a shed with roosting bars etc. We did buy her a bag of turkey feed from our local feed store. I'm just trying to figure out if we can keep her before we build her a house!

So my questions are: Can anyone tell me if this is in fact a domestic turkey? And if it's male or female? We will definitely get some more turkey friends for her if she stays around and isn't wild. If it helps, she has opened her wings a few times but doesn't seem able to fly, but her wings don't appear to be clipped. Also, can turkeys free roam like chickens? We have an acre of cleared land next to our house that our chickens run around during the day when we're outside, surrounded by woods that the chickens don't venture into. I'm hoping this turkey could help deter predators from coming after our chickens during the day even if we're in the house, and they'd all be in their respective shelters at night.

Thanks in advance and please excuse me if I'm just a crazy lady trying to adopt a wild turkey lol. We'll leave her alone if she's wild!

u/Cirrus646 — 10 days ago

I'm not new to telepathy- both my kids came to me in spirit form long before they were conceived, and my guides and I communicate somewhat regularly this way. I'm familiar with what it feels like to have images and words "dropped into" my head vs my own brain coming up with a thought. But interestingly, and probably like so many people who connect to their babies prior to birth, once my kids got here in physical form the telepathy between us kind of downregulated.

My youngest is 2 and he was having a really tough time sleeping a few nights ago. I'm talking he was up 7 times, waking up his sister, telling me he was "worried" but wouldn't elaborate. He's been talking in sentences since 18 months and is not ND so he hasn't had much need for telepathic communication - he's quite verbal. He'll normally tell me if he had a scary dream, what it was about, etc. (usually spiders lol). But something was going on that he couldn't explain. So after going in, soothing, putting him back to bed, going back in and starting the process over, I resigned myself to a long night. We were on his rocking chair and he was falling asleep in my arms and I was doing the mental math of how much sleep I could possibly get if he actually stayed asleep this time when I started thinking about my dad's funeral. Very specific images of him in the casket, how skeletal and unlike himself he looked and how traumatic his illness was for our entire family as well as him (he passed from Alzheimers at only 62 after struggling for 11 years). I truly felt like I was in a prison or hell thinking about what it was like for him. Then I just got the "message" - "THIS is what I'm struggling with mom. Now you get it." My sweet 2 yo son was reliving this past life trauma.

Side note, prior to conception one of my son's guides came to me and told me telepathically, "your son will not be born until after your father passes, and he will have your father's spirit." Those exact words, to be interpreted how I will I guess. So it's not out of the norm for me to relate my dad's life and aspects of his personality to my son, who told me prior to conception that he wanted to be named after my dad in a way but also have his own unique name, and who is very much like my dad in ways that seem too coincidental to be random. My son literally sings along to some of my dad's favorite songs upon first listen and has an otherworldy relationship with my mom, it's wild. I make an effort to separate my dad and my son in my mind, I realize that even if they have the same soul they are not the same person, and I take what I need to best guide and parent him through his karma. I believe we all have past lives (human and otherwise) and being aware of them can simply help us live out our missions and connect to who we truly are as souls. My daughter, however, seems to have come straight from the angelic realm, born at 11:11 after being ushered in by her main guide Archangel Michael, and is just the chillest little earth alien with seemingly no karma. Two very different souls who require very different parenting, and thankfully my initiation as a mother began long before they were born.

Anyway, when I became aware that my son communicated those thoughts about my dad with me and shared what he was feeling without words, I immediately held him closer and told him "I understand." And he opened his eyes, looked right at me, said "I'm ready to go in my crib now mama," and gave me his usual end of night kisses. He then proceeded to sleep through the night and has been ever since.

And I'm just sitting here trying to work now, but I truly can't stop thinking about these amazing intuitive tools we all have that we're literally just shutting off or overriding every day. I think more and more people are "upleveling" right now and wow it's just the coolest thing to be alive on the planet for this, even with all the crap that's going on. I'm so grateful for my son for coming to me before his birth to help me understand how to support and parent him, and I'm so happy that we still have this deeper relationship that spans lifetimes to help guide me when there are just no words to explain it.

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u/Cirrus646 — 15 days ago