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Bye Bye Busted =/

He’s still pretty wobbly. I had him propped up between two rolled washcloths and he was so comfortable he didn’t move for hours…then when I moved him he had a messy pile of poo behind him, which of course messed up his tail feathers…which resulted in my having to clean his back end in the sink.

He’s been pretty uncomplaining the whole time. We hold him on his back for hours at a time to give his legs a rest, and he just sleeps. But try the same position with his butt under warm running water and suddenly he’s peeping louder than he’s been the whole time he’s been here (usually his peeping is barely audible). But at least he’s (mostly) clean and less stinky.

Broca had another great name suggestion for broken guinea fowl. Keetstopher Reeve. Oh! Bad!

The keet looks a little bit improved today. He must’ve overheard us discussing the options (we were going to give him a week and then weren’t sure). Today we noticed that although he’s very wobbly, he’s able to sit up on his feet now and even creep along unsteadily (mostly sitting, but he tends to push his butt up in the air). Other times, he rocks forward and backward on his elbows (knees)? At least he doesn’t fall completely on his back so much anymore–but from time to time he’ll get going too fast and push his butt up too high, and does a complete forward somersault, which seems to confuse him–he stands there peeping afterward. He’s certainly eating, drinking, and pooping enough. He’s no longer afraid of us hovering over him, that’s for sure, especially if we have food or a water dropper.

Of course, even with a keet that might not make it, living in the house means he’s got a few nicknames. Buster (Busted) Keeton. Legolas (clip the ‘o’ a little short). This has led to a rash of names we could apply to the others…Michael Keeton, Diane Keeton, Keety Couric, Keet Richards, Keet Moon…

One of our guinea keets seems to have paralyzed legs (or something–can’t seem to use them). Per instructions here and suggestions here, we’ve made it a ‘poultry orthopedic chair’ (yes, I know how ridiculous it sounds) and are feeding it sugar water and trying to get it to eat some of its regular food. Sure hope it makes it. Keep your fingers crossed.
It’s not visible here but the little legs are dangling down through holes in the bottle.

Looks as if the PureBredPals yahoo group has given me the boot for expressing a dissenting opinion on dog auctions.

My last comments to the group are here.

Next thing I knew I had an email from purebredpals@yahoogroups.com That said simply:

Do you have any opinions that are yours and not from an article?

When I tried to respond to this, I found my membership in the group had been removed and my reply (that email address is for the list) bounced since I’m no longer a member.

Not only that, but the group owner followed this up with a posting this which attempted to put words in my mouth saying I said never to adopt a dog that came from a puppy mill. This is entirely untrue; what I said was, I would not give my money directly to a puppy mill via a consignment auction. My last posting even states that I believe in adoption from shelters, rescues, etc because the dogs there are already outside the puppy mill’s profit chain.

Since my membership was removed, I can’t respond to that posting, either.

I would not discourage people from helping this group, but if you object to rescuing from dog auctions, you should know your donation could end up being used for them; also that expressing dissention in this group, even free from ad hominem and personal attacks, is very likely to get you removed from the group.

Wayne County fair time again. Was way more interesting this year now that we keep chickens, so I recognized a lot of breeds. I now know that Randy the rooster can’t possibly be a bantam, that Red and Gus may be a bit large too, but maybe Squeak and Roadrunner are. And guinea fowl are freaky looking in person. Very pretty feathers though. Can’t wait til ours grow up.

Geek humor featuring chickens. Who could ask for anything more?