It's so nice to hear good news this mornig. It's raining a little in Conyers this morning and I am sitting in my back room listening to the girls fight over the one next that they almost all prefer right under the back porch. Tommy started school yesterday, first grade, so he doesn't get to help me until after school. I wait for him to get home before gathering eggs. Have a great day! Susan
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From: CathrynTherese Fitch Walden <cathryntherese@yahoo.com>
To: "CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com" <CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Polish Pullets
You make me smile reading your posts. :) Which is like having ice cream with cake today. I am still smiling over my day too.
Early this morning my teeny wheaten serama hen Wheaties who has congestive heart failure was laying at an odd angle in her box. She was limp and weakly gasping for air. I could count her heart beats easily and they ranged from 60-65 per minute; 1/4 to 1/5 of what her heart rate should be.
I took her in the living room, gave her a whole atarax instead of half,(out of my bee sting kit),and 1/2 of a baby aspirin for pain, thinking since she was going to die that she'd get to go to sleep peacefully and painlessly on my chest.
Three hours later she started perking up and her heart rate picked up. By noon she went outside for 10 minutes and wobbled around in the dappled sun under my close supervision. Has to a gift from heaven that she did not pass on.
I tried to follow a 6 hr schedule today for her regular dose of atarax and she is still singing and strutting around her box. Wheaties loves her boxes lined with rags, (rags so if her heart acts up and she can't breath and flops around until I can get to her she won't bruise an eye or head again).
CathrynrainbowsilkiesTMMichigan
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