#siggestions? put it in the box

[kraniumet]

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4/8/22 Report

God dammit! I forgot to cancel the Chewy order. I'mma be up to my eyes in food.

10/8 cups of Royal Wing Classic Mix, plus 1/8 cup each of Safflower seeds, basic wild bird blend, and finch blend were given to Cheeto and Cotta yesterday.

10/8 cups total remained today.

The inside feed bucket needed refilling today.

It takes 5 measures.

It's filled with 3 measures of Versele Laga classic pigeon blend 15% no corn and two of Royal Wing Classic Mix, alternating.

Cheeto and Cotta will share 1, 1/8 cups of that blend, plus 1/8 cup each of Safflower, generic wild bird blend, and finch blend today.

Tomorrow's leftovers will be measured.

Titan is still fluffed up, hunchy, and unwell, so he and his mom will stay in quarantine.

He drank 4/5 of his medicated water.

His samples are concerningly insubstantial.

Bruce drank half his medicated water.

All samples left since yesterday are idea in color and consistency. The untrampled ones are perfect.

In the hand, his keel was tangible, but not sharp, thisckening at a steady gradient up his sides.

He's lost a little muscle mass during his confinement that should return with the opportunity to exercise.

High 4 on the body scale.

He has returned to the loft.

Diamond drank 2/3 of her water and appears to have tracked seeds and some trampled pieces of samples into her water dish during bouts of agitated pacing.

All samples have been trampled, but are good size, color, and consistency.

In the hand, her keel is ideally tangible. Easily found, with muscle thickening at a smooth gradient up to her sides.

There is further tangible thickening along her lateral line, where her wings connect to her torso, indicative of some excess fat.

Low 6 on the body scale.

With the space to move, I expect her to lose this.

She has returned to the loft.

Nobu drank about 1/3 of his water.

Samples range from olive green to sandy brown and remain distinctly granular, siggesting that he went from a high concentration of Safflower seeds back to a high concentration of millet.

In the hand, his keel is tangible with thick muscle, making him feel a little barrel chested.

Maybe a mid 6 on the body scale.

He has returned to the loft.

Jack drank his dish dry. Aaaand trampled all his samples into his spilled seed and tore up his paper pacing and trying to lift the door.

In the hand, his keel is tangible, but he's barrel chested.

High 6 on the body scale.

He has returned to the loft.

Ness drank about 1/4 of his medicated water.

He's done lots of pacing and trampled nearly all of his samples, but you can still tell volume, color, and consistency from them.

He boxed me quite powerfully when picked up!

Solid 7 on the body scale.

This is a little boy who takes after his very slender mother, so a thick barrel chest with tangible keel puts him higher on the body scale than the other birds of bulkier breed blends.

He has returned to the loft.

Titan has been moved over to the #1 slot.

He feels a little lighter in the hand than he should. His parents are big, chesty breed blends, so what would be a solid 5 on the body scale for a racing homer is about a low to mid 4 for Titan.

It's hard to get clear photos through the bars of the way he stands right now, but you can see him a little fluffed in this irritated defensive pose.

Thankfully, his appetite seems better.

He's eating while he's digging. Seems very excited for the smallest peas in the Versele Laga blend.

Ibis has drunk about 2/3 of her water dish, which is significantly larger than the little hospital dishes.

Her samples are mostly wet and sloppy, but a few are more substantial and at least close to solid.

I think she may like Jack's slightly more shallow dish.

Samples on the Loft's social surfaces range from perfect to trampled.

In the time it took me to fill the refuse bin with 2/3 of the loft's leftovers, Sterling came to see me three times.

When he wasn't on my shoulders or in my lap, he was preening my hip or side.

He's become probably my present favorite.

Jack immediately re-paired with Taffeta, who looks very happy to see him. Two more on the keeper list so far.

One of the brightest silver linings to the prospect of a long term shut down is having time to see how the young birds' temperaments develop.

Will Sterling and Orchid stay that lovey?

We'll see!

With five fairly large birds returning to the loft, feed has increased to 16 measures.

1/2 Versele Laga classic blend 15% no corn and 1/2 Royal Wing Classic Mix blended by alternating measures into a 5 gallon bucket.

Orchid spent some time on my shoulder to preen my face.

Terra hopped on my back to start an argument with Sterling over who had the right to be there, which Sterling won handily by shoving him off.

Hope sat on my head for a bit.

Observed Granite expel a huge sample, ideal for a broody hen. (Her egg is fake.)

Still no news about the fungal or viral panels. I'm trying not to worry. The last one took almost two weeks.