So, I've been ill, which isn't much fun when you are trying to deal with a chook who won't eat anything other than chinese leaf! We've muddled through though!
Her Ladyship is still into chinese leaf big time! She has it everyday but not til about 11.30am-12.00 ish, this way she will eat a bit of her proper food first, and graze on her feed throughout the day too. She is still very light, but it seems to vary day to day now, the other day she hit 1500g (having been 1836g when she very first had the implant done) which is a mahoosive loss! Then she will put a little weight on for a couple of days averaging out at just below 1600g, then drops again! She is a bit subdued, but nothing major *touches wood* so as long as she is still active and alert, and still picking at food we will let her be. She is back on the metoclopramide twice a day (orally) which does seem to be helping. Her moult seemed to be pretty much done, just the last bit of shedding the sheaths to go, then yesterday she started dropping a few more feathers. Most odd!
Nowt else to report really, I'll be back soon, hopefully minus this hacking cough! *splutter*
Showing posts with label metoclopramide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label metoclopramide. Show all posts
Saturday, 25 June 2011
Monday, 13 June 2011
Monday, day 16, 13th June 2011
Food in crop this morning, but not overly worried as nighttime droppings were ok (and plenty of them for a change!).
Her Ladyship Queen Lola of Divaland was very much into her chinese leaf again today, plus she ate a bit of breakfast, plus she decided cucumber was a worthy addition to her diet today too :-)
The best news of the day is that Lola has GAINED 50g over the last 24 hours WOOHOOOOO! What a clever little chookaloo she is!
So, this evening I trotted off to the supermarket and stocked up on chinese leaf, cucumbers, and brocolli as I thought she may like to try that too. I spied her eating some of the ex-bat crumb at one point, and she had a bit of scrambled egg at teatime too. I also popped into the vets to pick up some Hills A/D diet food for her, just to try and get some of that lost muscle/weight back onto her.
Another thing she has done today is to have a dustbath, something she has not done for at least a week and a half I reckon. She is definitely up and about more too.
The relief of seeing her eating, and actually showing an interest in food is incredible.
One oral dose of metoclopramide today
No egg
One superdooper happy Mama *grin*
Her Ladyship Queen Lola of Divaland was very much into her chinese leaf again today, plus she ate a bit of breakfast, plus she decided cucumber was a worthy addition to her diet today too :-)
The best news of the day is that Lola has GAINED 50g over the last 24 hours WOOHOOOOO! What a clever little chookaloo she is!
So, this evening I trotted off to the supermarket and stocked up on chinese leaf, cucumbers, and brocolli as I thought she may like to try that too. I spied her eating some of the ex-bat crumb at one point, and she had a bit of scrambled egg at teatime too. I also popped into the vets to pick up some Hills A/D diet food for her, just to try and get some of that lost muscle/weight back onto her.
Another thing she has done today is to have a dustbath, something she has not done for at least a week and a half I reckon. She is definitely up and about more too.
The relief of seeing her eating, and actually showing an interest in food is incredible.
One oral dose of metoclopramide today
No egg
One superdooper happy Mama *grin*
Sunday, 12 June 2011
Sunday, day 15, 12th June 2011
Food in crop this morning so back on the metoclopramide.
She picked at breakfast which was good. Still losing feathers but it has at least slowed down; she is working on her hair at the mo, and I think her tail is going to be next.
I've been poorly the last few days, so I had to catch up a bit today and nipped out to do some shopping. I came home armed with various bits n bobs for Lola to try, as this not eating/losing weight is worrying me silly. Pureed baby fruits- not interested, organic yogurt- not interested, this morning she was picking about in the cat bowl, although it was empty...so I bought some posh cat food for her to try- one of those all fish/vegetable/natural kinds...now I will point out that I am not really an advocate of feeding cat/dog food to birds as a general rule (mostly because I know what goes into it- lets face it, that is where my hens were headed had they not been rescued), however on this occasion she did pick out a couple of bits of fish- result! Desperate times call for desperate measures!
I tried her with some cauli leaves- quite a lot of interest...I had bought some spring greens...still lots of interest so I brought out the chinese leaf (they often have this hung up in the run) OMG, major interest! I hung some leaves up around the kitchen door handle and Lola ate constantly for about 45mins!!!! AMAZING! (Picture to follow!) Just when I thought it couldn't get much better, I put the girls into the run with their tea- scrambled egg- and Lola started tucking in to that as well...not a massive amount, but it's a start :-)
No egg
Happy Mama
She picked at breakfast which was good. Still losing feathers but it has at least slowed down; she is working on her hair at the mo, and I think her tail is going to be next.
I've been poorly the last few days, so I had to catch up a bit today and nipped out to do some shopping. I came home armed with various bits n bobs for Lola to try, as this not eating/losing weight is worrying me silly. Pureed baby fruits- not interested, organic yogurt- not interested, this morning she was picking about in the cat bowl, although it was empty...so I bought some posh cat food for her to try- one of those all fish/vegetable/natural kinds...now I will point out that I am not really an advocate of feeding cat/dog food to birds as a general rule (mostly because I know what goes into it- lets face it, that is where my hens were headed had they not been rescued), however on this occasion she did pick out a couple of bits of fish- result! Desperate times call for desperate measures!
I tried her with some cauli leaves- quite a lot of interest...I had bought some spring greens...still lots of interest so I brought out the chinese leaf (they often have this hung up in the run) OMG, major interest! I hung some leaves up around the kitchen door handle and Lola ate constantly for about 45mins!!!! AMAZING! (Picture to follow!) Just when I thought it couldn't get much better, I put the girls into the run with their tea- scrambled egg- and Lola started tucking in to that as well...not a massive amount, but it's a start :-)
No egg
Happy Mama
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)