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Mine just arrived. Now let’s see if I can remember how to post photos. 😛
He’s a little less russet than he looks in these photos, closer to salmon, but still a very handsome little guy. 🙂 I hadn’t even seen him in the group photos but I like him a lot, particularly the blue antiquing!
It’s wonderful news, that at last there is another source for horns! 😀 Hooray! Huge kudos to everyone who has made this happen!
In addition to the production sculpts–gosh, any of the production sculpts–polished pewter horns could look good on PYOs, too. Although I admit I’m also interested in PYO horns. I would love to paint one in a warm pearl.
As far as overfeeding, no, I don’t think you need to worry about that at present. If he’s still able to fly about, then he’s not getting too fat. More likely he’s been on short commons for a while now and is just ecstatic to have someone putting food out for him! Now he can make up for lost time.
I think the box is fantastic. The way you’ve got it so that its base fits over the balcony railing is downright inspired!
We are pretty close to having the Daddy Foo-dog, pyo flapcat and Derpy Kitty Griffin ready. They are cast, we are just waiting for the steel cutters for the pads.
WAUGH! 😀 This just made my day for the second time in an hour!
I think your idea for a Lupus Awareness dragon is brilliant, and I shouldn’t think the facial markings would offend. People might not recognize the significance of the butterfly marking–which admittedly is the point, to educate people–so maybe he could come with a little tag saying what the mark is, and that people with lupus often show this marking too. I think it’s a great way to teach people about this clinical sign and to also draw their attention to the existence of a disease that doesn’t get a lot of attention in the press. And if even just one person sees the mark and recognizes it, and so helps their friend or family member to a diagnosis, that’s a very good thing.
It’s a little bit sad that the first I learned about the butterfly mark was from reading Blackjack, for crying out loud. :~ We just don’t get good disease education in grade school.
I haven’t seen scaled quail in the air, but our little Californias fly tolerably well; they just prefer not to get too high. I’m a little concerned that his being fluffed is a hint that he’s either not feeling well or is feeling the cold. He’ll want to stay under cover of some kind, by instinct: dogs, cats, and predators by air are big threats to quail. That said, he probably was raised in a coop with a run, so your porch looks nice and homey to him.
I do worry about the cold. He’ll probably want to perch at night and be out of drafts; in some cold areas birdkeepers build a “huddle box” up high for their birds. It’s basically a box closed on at least five sides with a perch inside: the open side faces away from the wind. Some huddles are even half-closed on the open side. By “up high” I’m thinking maybe 5 feet off the ground; I honestly don’t know how high quail like to perch, or if they prefer a hiding place on the ground. Either way, he’ll want to feel hidden and safe, but be able to fly out whenever he wants to.
Food-wise, game bird feed is much better than people food. Some feed stores will sell it in a smaller bag: they get a big bag in or a bulk lot, then parcel it out into little 5# bags for sale. Phone around, or maybe even try asking the animal shelter if they know who sells “chicken feed” (people usually know what that is, even if they don’t know what game bird feed is).
I’m glad he’s hanging around. Little guy is lucky to have an ally!
Poor little fella! He looks like a Scaled Quail to me too. Somebody may have had an aviary damaged by a falling tree branch or the wind, and he escaped. If he got caught up in a wind he could have been carried quite some distance. He’s likely pretty hungry and would be grateful for some cracked corn, rolled oats, or even just birdseed. (Not instant rice, though, ever!) And a little dish of water.
Very pretty bird. I agree, his patterns would look very fine on a griffin. 🙂
True, lupus may not show on an MRI, although they might have a special contrast study they can do. However, sometimes the docs want to do a diagnostic that doesn’t really match the main suspect because they’re anxious to rule something else out that looks a lot like it. (“If the MRI is negative, then it CAN’T be this other thing, so with that off the list it almost has to be lupus.”)
If memory serves me, there are some specific tests that can be run for autoimmune; Coomb’s test and ANA (anti-nuclear antibody) test come to mind, but I bet there are others. And golly, autoimmune makes sense when considering your muscle weakness, because I’ve seen autoimmune cause bizarre behavior at the junction plates where the nerves attach to the muscles. That patient didn’t have lupus; she had an internal abscess. If they’d done MRI on her, they would have caught it a little sooner, but that was years ago and MRI wasn’t as available.
For all I know, there may be more specific testing they can run on urine these days. But checking for protein is an old standby, and easy to do. If they find high levels of protein, it’s either a UTI (and I think you’d know if you had one) or leaky glomeruli.
Lupus is a very good candidate. What I recall of it is that it’s an autoimmune disease that attacks junctions in tissue: most particularly, the basal membrane of the skin, and the junctions in the glomeruli of the kidneys. (There are other sites, but I can’t recall at the moment.) If the docs are chasing lupus, have they kept an eye on your kidney function? It’s not just bloodwork: they also can monitor the urine for anything that shouldn’t be there, like PROTEIN. If a patient is losing protein in the urine, they’ll lose weight fast. Please have them check a urine analysis at the next visit–it’s really important!
Autoimmune and tick diseases can look a lot alike, because the end effect is the same: the immune system gets very confused and starts attacking the body’s own tissues. And–throwing it out there–hair loss can be a sign of inflammation within the skin, because angry skin drops its hair and its pigment. But hair follicles can also dump hairs for other reasons, and bumps in the skin can also be due to local infections, so it’s not a precise diagnostic.
The butterfly rash is one of those “telltale” symptoms in humans, and is definitely worth drawing to your doctors’ attention. Good on you for spotting it!
Big fan of Golden here too! I’ve used mine diluted with distilled water, and haven’t yet had any trouble with the paint “breaking” or degrading over time (my oldest PYO is coming up on 5 years old). But the GAC 100 is much nicer if you want to dilute the paint in something that will still cover the piece. The super-thin layers you get with water are only useful if you plan to do a whole lot of layering.
Enjoy these paints–they’re wonderful to work with! 8)
Does anyone know is this for real or photo shopped? Can’t tell nowadays.I love it! :bigsmile:
About a zillion years behind but slowly catching up . . . The photo is probably genuine. That’s a pied peacock. Pied gene codes for random white patches on a wildtype blue bird, and it can make for some really striking color schemes. Nice photo!
I love what you are doing with your PYOs, especially the most recent dragon and the Foo mom and pup. Please, keep painting! You have such great creative ideas. 🙂
