Chicken updates
Her colour was bad, and she was very listless. I picked her up, took her inside, and decided to try a course of anti bios. She died in my arms before I could start treatment. Its always sad to have any of our birds die, butI focus on what we have done for them. Their lives have been dreadful at the hands of chicken farmers and their staff — in cramped facilities.
At the sanctuary they get to experience what it is to have freedom, an enabling environment for normal chicken behaviour and loads of love and tlc. This is what we can do for the time they are with us. RIP our beautiful girls. This is our lovely Cinderella laying her morning egg in this teeny tiny tupperware. This is from having a portion of her beak seared off with a burning hot blade at 2 days old. No anaesthetic.
This is standard procedure for battery hens to stop them cannibalising each other in their crowded small cages for the next year of their sad lives. A cruel practice to combat more cruelty. Cinderella has this gorgeous gravelly voice. Sadly this is the case, as she cannot close her beak at all. Cinderella has been so badly mutilated that her sinus structure was damaged, causing repeated sinus and eye infections as a chick.
Luckily she seems to be coping now. Stop eating eggs! We do not let our chooks breed, as there is an overwhelming strain on already overloaded system. However, this broody hen at the sanctuary hid her nest and eggs, until it was too late for me to risk taking eggs away. The result was these two cuties! In the photos they are a week old. Last year I was privileged to rescue Galhinia who was being plucked alive.
See her story on this link below. Last Friday I was due to leave for Cape Town early in the morning. Galhinia clearly not well. Family went ahead to CT and I stayed behind to get her to a vet. She was put on a course of anti bios. I was reticent to leave, however my wonderful sister who is an animal rehabilitator agreed to nurse her for the weekend, and knowing that she was in such good hands I was able to go.
I was aware that it may have been the last time I saw her, but also felt hopeful that the anti bios would kick in, and I would be fetching her to go home at the end of the weekend. I remember every detail of me leaving, I made sure I had a lasting pic of her in my head.
I got updates all day Friday. She was sleeping, eating a little, drinking and getting loads of cuddles. Early Saturday morning Galhinia;s body temp started dropping. My sister wrapped her in a towel and hot water bottle and went to sit in the garden under a tree with a magnificent view of Jozi.
It took about 5 minutes and Galhinia died in her arms. It was peaceful, and quick from Friday morning to Saturday Morning. I miss her so much already. She had left a huge hole in my day, but has also made space for another rescue chook who needs some TLC and the opportunity to be a free hen.
I focus on what I can do, and not what I cannot. I know that in every interaction with her throughout our 15 months together, I was absolutely present in every interaction with her. The memories of her smell, the feeling of her plucked body, and then feathered body against my face such a strong memory. She brought such joy to our lives. Valentino on day 1. Untreated eye abcess. Removed from plant nursery with his family, as not getting adequate medical attention.
Valentino a week after treatment under committed and compassionate volunteer Kim. Painful foot mites, also left untreated. Wife of Valentino, Rosie, and some of their off spring. All treated for foot mites. Bed time for this cute crowd. Kim offered to volunteer under our banner to care for this family until Valentinos eye healed, foot mites clear, and we find a suitable home for them.
I named his lady Rosie, after my mom who had 5 children and was always clucking around keeping us from harm. And Vanilli was having crowing practice this morning too. Too precious for words. The improvement in the little big mans eye is vast and he can see me coming from both sides now. His feet are almost those of a ballerina, and they are just having the most awesome fun here in their little corner of paradise in Linden.
Not a murmur from any of the neighbours either. On Saturday I was contacted by a woman Kim, who has re homed some chicks as pets for us before, and also taken a little exotic Canadian red head duck, Mo from us.
Kim said she had seen a bantam rooster at a plant nursery with a swollen eye. He was with his family of 7, and the owners had no intention of getting him medical attention. Kim has named this little man, Valentino, he has an abscess under his eye. Front view of abscess eye.
Together we went back to the nursery and I managed to negotiate to take the rooster, and his wife and a small donation to cover some of his medical costs. Sadly, at the time we were not given the chicks, although later the owner agreed to let us re unite the family, so he would not have to treat the chicks as well. Valentino was taken to our fabulous vet Jean Davidson at Craighall veterinary clinic. Jean said it was an abscess, but that he also had foot mites. Both needed to be treated. I informed the nursery that the parents had foot lice, and it was contagious to other birds.
They asked us to collect the chicks as well. Family re united. Kim has kindly offered to do all the nursing and care of the family in a volunteer capacity under our banner, until they are healthy and we can re home. Bantam family re united. Bantam family enjoy some radish leaves. Valentino had his op yesterday. Jean managed to drain a large amount of pus out, but not all. The abscess has been untreated for so long, that it has made a permanent hole in his palette.
Soft food for a while is indicated. He goes back on Thursday for more treatment on abscess. In the interim he needs anti bios and softening of the abscess with a weak betadine solution. Foot mites on bantam rooster. Feet look scaly and porous. Almost like pumice stone. In many cases they have beige coloured calcified growths on them.
These make walking painful and ultimately difficult, depending on how long the mites have been there. Massage feet with aqueous cream post soaking, and gently start to soften and work some of the calcification of the feet.
This must be done slowly and gently over a few weeks. Do not start picking. This may make the feet bleed, and is not only painful, but leaves the chicken open to infection. Miss Goosey gets home It was late aftrenoon, and I felt her leg needed to be looked at sooner rather than later. I took her to mysister, a well known wildlife rehabilitator and bird expert. Her leg was not dislocated or broken, but very painful, and it seems a recent injury.
Probably through mishandling in capture and transportation earlier that day to welfare organisation. Miss Goosey was very relaxed with us, and very tired. We settled her on a towel on the floor with food and water for examination.
She talked to us constantly. My sister then suggested a warmish bath for Miss Goosey. Nursing animals in the prescence of my sister with her compassion and vast experince is such a pleasure, and such an amazing growth opportunity. It was exactly what Miss Goosey needed. She stayed in for a good half hour preening, relaxing, getting water on her feathers, talking constantly, playing.
A surge in national and local quick service restaurants QSR coupled with fast-spreading modern retail chains have led to a significant increase in the demand for processed chicken, making Indian poultry integrators look at increasing processed chicken capacities.
The prices of certain consumer durables like televisions, air conditioners, fridges and washing machines may however become cheaper with decrease in taxes.
Nestle India will bring back the chicken variant of its popular Maggi noodles online through Snapdeal from February Analysts said the retailer's revenue performance was underwhelming despite near-normal operating conditions and significant commodity inflation. All News Photos Videos Blogs. ET Bureau. Sorry, there are no blogs for your search. Editor's Pick. Furniture retailer Evok by Hindware plans to cross three-digit store count mark in As a matter of orientation: The event occurred on Line 4, where chicken is processed, to include seasoning, cooking, freezing, and then packaging.
CSB investigators are focusing on the cryogenic freezing system, based on information from various sources, to include several visits to the Plant 4 by our CSB investigators The information in the following bullets has been previously released.
CSB News Release. Print Share. CSB has confirmed that both the external and the interior elements of this system were manufactured by Messer. This includes the supply tanks outside, and the interior cryogenic freezing equipment on Line 4. Prior to the recent installation of this system, a different type of freezing equipment was used, which was ammonia-based.
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