Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Bob, I am sorry I have not kept up. I do think Gucci has an issue. You are supplementing vitamins? Do you remember when my Minnie was unstable on her feet? I never knew what it was, but she recovered with tube feeding. I am NOT suggesting tubing for Gucci. However, maybe you should be making sure she is gaining weight properly by weighing her? Do you have kitchen scale?

I know you already know this, but maybe you could check her crop in the morning and evening for a couple days. Is it possible the other two are bullying her off feed? You could also pull her aside for private feedings of mash or baby bird formula.

I don’t mean to be an alarmist and will keep reading back, but a quick search of Gucci posts by you does not bring up an obvious concern of yours. I want to make sure you aren’t missing it, since you're looking after three babies, dealing with integration, etc.

@RoyalChick does it look a bit like the issue Bernadette was having previously?

I believe that Gucci is having the same issue as Bernadette did and I am supplementing B vitamins to assist her.

 

[BY Bob]

I just checked them it’s 05:13 now, Rose seems quiet I did notice once where seemed the gasp at breathing. I will go out at the usual time of 6am I don’t want to disturb everyone unnecessarily.

@BY Bob

I took a pic of curly sleeping with her head hanging down! I watched a couple minutes till she popped half awake and bobbed back up.

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So Gucci is not the only one doing that!

The bobbing head thing is real. Glynda does it too. She will sleep with her head hanging down.

 

[bgmathteach]

Just checked her, it’s cooled here but the air is still soupy and sticky. Rose is still having laboured breathing and freaking me out.

I will check on her again around 3:30

Oh, no, the poor girl. I hope it is something treatable. Unfortunately, it sounds like it is much more than heat panting - her lungs or throat c;early have something in there. And her frequent flicking of head is usually indicative to 'stuff' in the upper respiratory tract, too.

Hope you are able to figure out what it is and help her get better quickly

 

[BY Bob]

It did sound on your video like she had something stuck in her throat. Would she let you have a look when you wake them up ? It doesn't sound like panting from the heat.

My hen Vanille is eggbound, it has happened a hundred times before, she's really laboring this time and I have a kind of bad feeling. It happened a few times to her that pieces of soft shell eggs didn't come out, she always pulled through up to now.

Chickens = worries .

I am sure you have helped her with some lubrication. Praying for her to pull through this.

 

[BY Bob]

Thirsty Thursday

 

[Ponypoor]

That does not sound good. I hope she is doing better on your next check in.

At 6am chores I grabbed her and took her out of the hen house on her own, she was a bit wheezy and her ‘voice’ sounds hoarse, she sneezed but no nasal discharge. She didn’t feel any warmer then Dorothy, but tonight I will take her temp ( how hard can it be??).

Anywho I listened to her lungs they sounded ok no crackles or rails, but I couldn’t hear anything through her trachea as I was using my ear on her to listen - I will dig out my stethoscope tonight. Her crop emptied over night and she proceeded to start eating and drinking and digging through the hay and sharing Reenie’s breakfast.

And of course now I am seeing others sneezing, and asking myself is it more then normal ????

Between poor Sally coughing up a lung (she has bad COPD) and my coughing and sneezing from allergies and now Rose…. I am beginning to think there is something going on!

I almost gave Rose some prednisone but I didn’t know the dose for a chicken!

 

[Ponypoor]

Thirsty Thursday

Awwww soooooo cute!!! They are getting so big! Not babies anymore

 

[Ponypoor]

The bobbing head thing is real. Glynda does it too. She will sleep with her head hanging down.

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Holy Dinah

I thought she was going to pitch head first onto the ground!!! Is this normal - does anyone else see this with their sleeping chickens??

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh, no, the poor girl. I hope it is something treatable. Unfortunately, it sounds like it is much more than heat panting - her lungs or throat c;early have something in there. And her frequent flicking of head is usually indicative to 'stuff' in the upper respiratory tract, too.

Hope you are able to figure out what it is and help her get better quickly

This morning Rose seems ok I did notice some sneezing and her voice sounds different like when we get a cold

But she was eating and drinking and sharing breakfast with Reenie - I swear these horses and chickens are going to give me grey hair !

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Like you, I cry constantly over these silly birds but that's OK. It is because I feel so strongly about them.

Sadly with so many of us on the thread there always seems to be a chicken in distress, what is one to do?

I hope that everyone will understand that hopes for a recovery might come too late and accept them in the spirit offered. I am going to continue to comment as I read. I hope that I offend no one.

Unless someone objects perhaps that should be the way we operate here. Would anyone find that objectionable?

No objections, I agree.