The months go zipping by

Seldom a normal day.

We still don't know what's wrong with Huckleberry, though a weekly injection of vitamin B-12 seems to help.  It sure appears that some sort of pathogen ought to be behind the slow-moving outbreak of cat illnesses that started last Spring, but all the tests (including some very expensive ones) are coming up negative.

And this afternoon another of the chickens suddenly came down very sick; we're thinking she's probably eggbound, though going from apparently normal to collapse in 5 hours seems awfully rapid.  Joy has been trying home treatments for egg binding, with no success (and hasn't even been able to confirm the presence of an egg).  By the time I noticed that she was in distress, it was already too late in the day for a trip to the regular vet, and taking a chicken to an all-night emergency vet (especially when I'm in no shape to be driving, given the late hour) doesn't seem like something we're doing.

Politics is ever a distraction this summer, and then there's the global outbreak of rabid antisemitism - I'm not sure how much of that is real and how much is rent-a-mobs and bots, but it's certainly worrisome.

Work is back, so I'm bashing on FPGA stuff, and interface stuff, and need to find time and focus to do some heavy pondering and documentation on firmware reliability/testability and distribution issues.

Oh, yes: multiple FedEx packages from my Labor Day shopping were initially shown as arriving yesterday and today; one of the yesterday packages arrived today, and it looks like everything else is coming tomorrow.  Maybe.  FedEx's tracking has been kinda optimistic today.

And now it's definitely past my bedtime.

Update, Friday evening:  The ailing hen laid an egg this morning... an unusually large turtle egg.  Lack of a shell might explain why Joy couldn't feel an egg, though I'm not sure how a squishy egg like that gets stuck.  We have a suspicion there's another on the way.  Anyway, she's doing better now, eating and drinking and walking a little.  I added some calcium citrate to the main waterer, so they'll all get yet another calcium supplement.

Comments

[Rob]

Glad your chicken is doing better...