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Title: Pauline's Pics
Post by: too many girls on June 21, 2008, 20:00
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Title: Pauline's Pics
Post by: too many girls on June 21, 2008, 20:02
sorry there so big, haven't mastered this posting of pics yet....................
Title: Pauline's Pics
Post by: kattcottrell on June 21, 2008, 20:05
Oh god, its a miracle she survived, you would have thought if the wounds wouldn't have killed her then the shock would have, she must have a real zest for lif...and a fantastic nurse :)
Title: Pauline's Pics
Post by: too many girls on June 21, 2008, 20:08
that black area on her bum is a hole, it seems to be reducing now, the vet couldn't stitch it because it was too big...................
Title: Pauline's Pics
Post by: kattcottrell on June 21, 2008, 20:10
its horrific, did you have to pack it or leave it exposed?
Title: Pauline's Pics
Post by: Porffor on June 21, 2008, 20:12
:cry: poor love.. really hope she makes it, you deserve a medal for trying so hard. ((hugs))
Title: Pauline's Pics
Post by: too many girls on June 21, 2008, 20:14
the vet packed it with gauze but told us to remove it when we got home so we could clean it, it was horrible as i had my fingers practically inside her with cotton pads, it makes me wretch and i don't think she liked it much either.
Title: Pauline's Pics
Post by: kattcottrell on June 21, 2008, 20:17
you really do deserve a medal, the thought of picking maggots out of a wound makes me feel sick to the stomach but its amazing what you can do when you really have to.
Title: Pauline's Pics
Post by: Vember on June 21, 2008, 20:32
O bless the poor girl

She takes a good photo though even with the Adam Ant style face paint  :lol:

Really hope she carries on lookin good and getting better

Well done TMG your doing a grand job  :D
Title: Pauline's Pics
Post by: babe on June 21, 2008, 20:44
little pauline is lucky to have her own angel looking after her.  feeling loved can help alot in getting better, so she has the bestest chance with you.

all out thoughts are with you xxx
Title: Pauline's Pics
Post by: Jellyhead on June 21, 2008, 20:45
Aaah, what a luverly chooky. So glad she is pulling through :wink: Great also to see all your hard work pay off :D
Title: Pauline's Pics
Post by: too many girls on June 21, 2008, 20:48
she's been trying to preen what little feathers she has left, hence the blue beak, she's only got 2 tail feathers left, she's certainly lost her street cred, but she's been really tolerant considering we keep hauling her out of her basket to give her antibiotics, do wound cleaning and demaggoting. she hasn't eaten much today and she's walking oddly ( i think i would be if someone bit a chunk out of my bum) it seems as if she's stiff, she also has a puncture wound on her fou fou (vent) ouch
Title: Pauline's Pics
Post by: Wildeone on June 21, 2008, 20:49
What a star you are! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

well done for not giving up!  :D
Title: Pauline's Pics
Post by: Poolfield2 on June 21, 2008, 22:02
If there were medals for bravery in the chook world Pauline would get the highest order :o
Title: Pauline's Pics
Post by: Foxy on June 21, 2008, 22:06
lovely piccies! you are a real star!
Lots of hugs to you and Pauline....

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Title: Pauline's Pics
Post by: Fifitrix on June 21, 2008, 23:03
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She's amazing.  You can't give up on a chook like that!   :D
Title: Pauline's Pics
Post by: compostqueen on June 22, 2008, 08:26
well done TMG!  She looks quite perky under the circs.  I hope to goodness she comes through her horrible ordeal
Title: Pauline's Pics
Post by: Kate and her Ducks on June 22, 2008, 09:49
Wow. That's a funky looking chicken :lol:
So glad to see she is looking so much better.
Title: Pauline's Pics
Post by: too many girls on June 22, 2008, 19:08
Pauline is still doing fine (fingers crossed she keeps it up) because the big brother hen house was  too small to keep them in indefinatley (untill we get the fox, as yet he's still unshot, they don't say as cunning as a fox for nothing)  we moved them and the 5 remaining cow shed girls into a stable, allthough it's big, being under house arrest is making them grumpy and we've had to remove Precious and lois because they were being bullied, lonely still has a stable of her own as she was almost pecked to death when we got her ( will post a pic if anyones interested to see a bald chicken) and so does Ellwood the remaining cockerel ( the fox got Jake). we bring our horses in every day to check for bites, kicks, stings, stones in hooves ect and i'm running out of stables, we put lonely in with Pauline temporarily and they seem to be getting on fine, they have cat baskets next to each other, and when the horses went back out we left the stable door open so they could wander if they wanted too, ( lonely did but Pauline went back to bed). she's still walking painfully , but seems ok in herself, hopefully she will make a full recovery .
Title: Pauline's Pics
Post by: peggyprice on June 23, 2008, 08:28
Hi TMG, so sorry I missed your email with the pics!  But really glad to hear the news about Pauline.  And maybe now Lonely won't have to be lonely any more   :D  :D
Title: Pauline's Pics
Post by: too many girls on June 23, 2008, 10:55
Hi Peggy, was wondering where you were, got the pics on myself, (dead chuffed) only still have to figure out how to resize them...............