Tagged by Beaver @daddygrandpaandthebeaver a totally reasonable amount of time ago- Post the last narrative sentence you wrote!
Originally the rule was "Tag as many people as there are words in your sentence", but I write long-ass sentences so I will not be doing that. x)
Instead: anyone who likes! Booping in particular @all-pacas , @scruffyfrank , @syrupwit , and you Kat bc I know you're reading this (/lh)
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Abruptly, and slightly ridiculously, Olivia misses the ship’s messaging flock and hopes their fragile little feet have found safe perches back in the city.
-From an original story! Current working title is ''Siren Song Of Starlight's Arrow', and it's about a merchant captain on a fantasy road trip looking for a comet while her party is getting stalked by a fantasy wizard university which has VERY strong feelings about property rights.
Olivia's the main & narrator character, and she's thinking about her recently-sunk ship's messenger pigeons. As you do
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On a Stick
Riku: Hey, what took you so long?
Kairi: There was a stupid seagull in the chicken coop freaking out
Riku: They do that
Kairi: So I had to poke it until it stood on the stick. But then, when I got it on the stick and out the window, he didn’t wanna get off the stick!
Sora: Aw, he realized you weren’t gonna kill him so he was content
Kairi: ...I hate birds
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i’ve been thinking of Crystal and Jowan’s ship name as Cryjow, which is funny enough. and then adding in the other 2 members of the polycule and getting Morcryjowlistair has me losing it a bit.
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ok also in chicago like im biased bc i already love pigeons and thibk theyre beautiful but i saw some BEAUTIFUL pigeons while i was there. like speckly black and white ones. ugh i wanted to pet one so bad
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This is Frederick. I miss him so much.
He escaped from his old home and has been living with us for 4 weeks. We've not been able to find his old home.
He's constantly been on our balcony, either making his rounds picking seeds (he's got a feeding bowl, but I guess this is more fun? :D) or sitting pressed up against a window, watching me and my GF go about our day. I'm convinced he wanted to come inside and take part. Must have been lonely without other pigeons.
Sadly we aren't able to care for him in the long run, so as of yesterday, he has a new home! Lots of new friends, lots of outdoor play time.
Unfortunately his new home required him to get his feathers clipped. I'm so sorry we weren't able to get you to somewhere you were able to fly freely, as was originally planned :(
I hope you'll live a long, happy life anyways. I love you, Frederick. It's not the same here without you. ❤️
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News
My flock has contracted Marek's Disease.
Since 2019, after I brought home Lyra and Wren, my flock has been a closed flock. Meaning I take biosecurity very seriously, and opted to not bring any new chickens in or allow other poultry-keepers access to the yard where they are kept. The only birds that were added from 2019 until now have been from hatching eggs. There are a select few diseases that can pass from mother to egg, but not Marek's.
But within the past few weeks one chicken displayed symptoms of leg weakness and became unable to walk. I brought them indoors and started treating for vitamin deficiency, since that is by far the most common cause of sudden lameness in poultry. But she didn't get better, and then Lyra started walking unsteadily, and I knew something else was wrong. I suspected something was wrong with my feed and sent off a sample to get tested for mycotoxins, and switched feeds, because I know a lot of people have had issues with that lately. But then one morning I found Moss deceased in the coop, and it all kind of went downhill from there.
Sebrights are known for having extremely low resistance to disease. They are very inbred. It is the reason I lost Kip to fowl pox when everyone else recovered fine. And why all but one (her unnamed cockerel "emo" son) of the members of my flock who are descended from Lyra are affected. But none of the other tiny breeds I have, Seramas or Kikirkis, are known for being particularly disease resistant either. So. I am extremely cautious at jumping the gun and saying they wont be effected.
I sent off Moss's body for a necropsy on monday and got the results today, September 29th.
I do not know how this got into my flock. Our nextdoor neighbor got chickens a few months ago, but our birds don't have any direct contact. That is the only way I can think of.
There is a vaccine but it can only be administered to day old chicks. Vaccinating to prevent this was not an option.
It generally takes 4-10 weeks for the disease to develop after the chicken has been exposed, so it had to have been fairly recent. My flock has not been carrying this sub-clinically.
I genuinely don't know how this is going to go from here. There is no treatment for marek's disease. It is a virus. I have ordered a few herbal remedies with vague studies to back up some kind of efficacy helping reduce the damage the virus does and boost their immunity, but its mostly a crapshoot. The only good news I have with all this is that older birds are somewhat less likely to succumb to this disease. And the fact turkies and pigeons can't contract it.
The only birds displaying symptoms right now are Lyra, and Moss's unnamed pullet daughter.
Lyra is tentatively okay. I have crafted a sling for her, and she has been increasing in mobility over the last few days. She did not ever have full paralysis, so I am hopeful. Her daughter and Mouse, one of the younger keep-back pullets from this summers chicks, are the only casualties so far.
I'll be doing all that I can in terms of supportive care, but if any symptomatic birds get to the point I don't think they will recover from I will be euthanizing them. I will not be selling chickens anymore.
This disease has been a nightmare of mine for such a long time and now it is really happening. I am pretty crushed.
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