Hi all,
It took a long time. It's been about 5 months since I rescued Mofu. Since week one she started losing feathers, and it was one heck of a journey trying to figure out the cause. Starting with random fits, 4 vet visits, constant 'all clear's, a false testing, and finally the 5th visit with an expensive blood test later, and it's now positive that Mofu has indeed has PBFD this whole time.
I'm not really sure to how feel about it to be honest. On one hand, I'm sort of relieved? She's not living feeling stressed like so many people have tried to convince me, guilting me into thinking I've been doing something wrong this whole time with Mofu's care. It's a condition that can be explained and was simply slowly cultivating this whole time without us figuring it out.
But on the other hand, I can only worry for the future. Having such an infectious disease affects and limits my workload at the farm, now I won't be able to assist with the fowl without potentially being a risk to the flock myself as a carrier. I can no longer risk visiting my family's birds. I need to keep Mofu's environment as sanitary as possible, which is difficult when you have long haired dogs and cats moulting on absolutely everything. Even THEY can be a risk for cross contamination now. It definitely makes things a lot trickier.
That being said, we'll be continuing our training with Mofu to get her more tame and more comfortable with her life with me. We've just upgraded her cage with so many more toys, it's cute watching her navigate from top to bottom. Still hasn't figured out how to play with her things but maybe one day she'll figure it out. We might have to start investing in some clothes for her now...
It took a long time. It's been about 5 months since I rescued Mofu. Since week one she started losing feathers, and it was one heck of a journey trying to figure out the cause. Starting with random fits, 4 vet visits, constant 'all clear's, a false testing, and finally the 5th visit with an expensive blood test later, and it's now positive that Mofu has indeed has PBFD this whole time.
I'm not really sure to how feel about it to be honest. On one hand, I'm sort of relieved? She's not living feeling stressed like so many people have tried to convince me, guilting me into thinking I've been doing something wrong this whole time with Mofu's care. It's a condition that can be explained and was simply slowly cultivating this whole time without us figuring it out.
But on the other hand, I can only worry for the future. Having such an infectious disease affects and limits my workload at the farm, now I won't be able to assist with the fowl without potentially being a risk to the flock myself as a carrier. I can no longer risk visiting my family's birds. I need to keep Mofu's environment as sanitary as possible, which is difficult when you have long haired dogs and cats moulting on absolutely everything. Even THEY can be a risk for cross contamination now. It definitely makes things a lot trickier.
That being said, we'll be continuing our training with Mofu to get her more tame and more comfortable with her life with me. We've just upgraded her cage with so many more toys, it's cute watching her navigate from top to bottom. Still hasn't figured out how to play with her things but maybe one day she'll figure it out. We might have to start investing in some clothes for her now...
