RandomWiktor
Rabid Betta Activist
((Please refrain from jokes involving eating Alejandro; we get enough of them everywhere we go, and frankly it is a bit crass, considering I hand raised him. I wouldn't go saying it about your pet, so please don't say it about mine.))
About the time I left this forum for a pretty long haitus, I had posted here about a little baby rooster given to me by my neighbors around Easter.
Let me start by saying that my neighbors not only shouldn't have chickens, they should shouldn't have children, houseplants, and pet rocks. Thier infant crawled out into the busy road FOUR TIMES when it was a baby, thier children run wild through yards and waltz into people's houses uninvited, and they don't bother catching thier dog when it gets loose (dangerous on a busy road). They had one parakeet die of an overgrown beak, the rest got out and flew away, and thier kitten needed an emergency surgery to deliver her offspring, because she was barely mature as it was. In fact, all of the 12 chickens they kept have since died between improper housing, leaving them alone with the children, and a bad incident involving thier dog...
We've tried to talk to them, but reasoning when them is something like spitting back at the rain.
Anyways, as you can guess, they didn't get the chickens from a great source, nor did they properly care for them as chicks; they were outside night and day when they still should have been inside with a heat lamp. We were not surprised, then, that Alejandro had a mild sniffle when we got him, but my parents were not too keen on taking him to the vet since he was otherwise healthy. I don't hold a job while I'm at college, so I have no say in the matter. But, I noticed some swelling last month and insisted he been seen, using the money I saved on my summer job. Not surprisingly, given his past, he had a sinus infection, and potentially a contageous, AIDs-like avian disease. I was very worried for my little roo, but kept up on his anti-biotics dilligently, and I am happy to say that the blood test for the virus came up negative, and the sinues infection is completely cleared up! So, I figure now that he's all big and healthy, I should show him off.
((Oh, and I know I've been saying "he" all along, but the vet is beginning to suspect, as he puts weight on, that he might actually be a she - esp. since he is almost full grown but hasn't gotten spurs or started crowing yet. Oh well
))
Me and Alejandro when he was younger, and still sick with a sinus infection.
Alejandro sitting on my bed - his favorite post. As a chick, he was raised entirely in my room; I actually slept on the floor on a cot, because the cage he was in was too big to put anywhere but my bed. He now spends a good deal of time outside with my hen, but I always bring him inside to sit on my lap and watch TV at night; he's a better house pet than my dog! Notice my two parrots in the background, glaring at the bird they've come to have quite a rivalry with
About the time I left this forum for a pretty long haitus, I had posted here about a little baby rooster given to me by my neighbors around Easter.
Let me start by saying that my neighbors not only shouldn't have chickens, they should shouldn't have children, houseplants, and pet rocks. Thier infant crawled out into the busy road FOUR TIMES when it was a baby, thier children run wild through yards and waltz into people's houses uninvited, and they don't bother catching thier dog when it gets loose (dangerous on a busy road). They had one parakeet die of an overgrown beak, the rest got out and flew away, and thier kitten needed an emergency surgery to deliver her offspring, because she was barely mature as it was. In fact, all of the 12 chickens they kept have since died between improper housing, leaving them alone with the children, and a bad incident involving thier dog...
We've tried to talk to them, but reasoning when them is something like spitting back at the rain.Anyways, as you can guess, they didn't get the chickens from a great source, nor did they properly care for them as chicks; they were outside night and day when they still should have been inside with a heat lamp. We were not surprised, then, that Alejandro had a mild sniffle when we got him, but my parents were not too keen on taking him to the vet since he was otherwise healthy. I don't hold a job while I'm at college, so I have no say in the matter. But, I noticed some swelling last month and insisted he been seen, using the money I saved on my summer job. Not surprisingly, given his past, he had a sinus infection, and potentially a contageous, AIDs-like avian disease. I was very worried for my little roo, but kept up on his anti-biotics dilligently, and I am happy to say that the blood test for the virus came up negative, and the sinues infection is completely cleared up! So, I figure now that he's all big and healthy, I should show him off.
((Oh, and I know I've been saying "he" all along, but the vet is beginning to suspect, as he puts weight on, that he might actually be a she - esp. since he is almost full grown but hasn't gotten spurs or started crowing yet. Oh well
))
Me and Alejandro when he was younger, and still sick with a sinus infection.
Alejandro sitting on my bed - his favorite post. As a chick, he was raised entirely in my room; I actually slept on the floor on a cot, because the cage he was in was too big to put anywhere but my bed. He now spends a good deal of time outside with my hen, but I always bring him inside to sit on my lap and watch TV at night; he's a better house pet than my dog! Notice my two parrots in the background, glaring at the bird they've come to have quite a rivalry with
unfortunately don't have a piccie here to add to the pet chicken collection 
