Posted July 17, 200816 yr My poor mum just got to my house and saw that Lime had died, he was lying in the nesting box on his back with his feet in the air He was still warm when she wrapped him in a teatowel and put him in a box and dad and her took him down to the vets to find out what he died from.... only issue at the vet they open the box and, well, he's not dead. A little peved at being woken up but nope not dead. In perfect health outside of being a french molt bird (Kaz you where right) Poor mum got a heart attack when she opened the box at the vets and he wiggled out of the teatowel! She just rang me and yelled at me for about 5 mins over my non dead bird and how all my babies are going to be the death of her.... Funny thing was the vet laughed so hard over the whole thing that he did not charge mum for the consultation! I had seen Lime roll on his back before and sort of sleep but had not really thought that he would sleep sleep like that but I guess he and Lemon are just a little nuts! Edited July 17, 200816 yr by Angelic Vampyre
July 17, 200816 yr Author You're telling me deb! I mean why did he not move when Mum grabbed him? She did say she did it quick and she hates handling dead animals so maybe that was why she did not notice??? All I know is she called me and told me that Lime had died but then did a jesus on her and came back to life at the vets... I was sitting here crying untill she finally told me the entire story!
July 17, 200816 yr All I can say is....good thing Mum didnt bury him straight away Oh my!! I didn't think of that!!!
July 17, 200816 yr Author Thats an unreal story Perhaps lime had a 'turn' - like a black out or something. Liv I have been thinking that. I really am not happy about not being able to give these guys veggies and calcium due to the doxie but I think I might just start adding some in at least one day a week. They have never shown any signs of being sick but then they do little thinks like this..... I might so talk to the vet again. Or maybe (as my mum suggested) Lemon told him she was up the duff and he just plain passed out! All I can say is....good thing Mum didnt bury him straight away Oh GOD I had not thought of this! okay no one is to bury birds at my house till I get home and confirm that they are in fact dead!
July 17, 200816 yr I really don't know what to say .... Maybe Lime was watching to much PUNKED and thought he called punk your mum I am glad that he is infact Alive and well
July 17, 200816 yr When I was a small child and I was staying on the farm of my uncle....the chooks got into the orchard once and ate the fermented fruit that had fallen off the trees. When we came out in the morning there was "dead" chooks all over the place. They were gathered up and taken to the washouse to be plucked and they were going to be boiled up for food for the pigs later that day. There they were all plucked and piled up ready to be cooked.... when, one by one they woke up from their drunken stupour and started wandering all around the farmyard, staggering and falling over, still half drunk, and all of them completely without feathers top to toe !!! My aunty and some friends had to quickly make them little outfits from hessian bags to keep them warm so they didnt go into shock. They were then kept in the shed with warm lamps until many months later they had enough feathers to go outside. To all appearances the chooks were dead when found.....stone cold too as they had spent the night in the prchard after eating the fermented fruit off the ground. A sight I will never forget as a five year old
