Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

Look what I found in my chickens clean coop this morning

 

[RoyalChick]

You beat me to this post...I was going to use one of these links (that YOU previously posted on this thread )

@Ponypoor & @fuentemoon dosage is 4.54 mg (ml for liquid is same thing strength wise) per pound. My little girl that broke her leg, I am giving 3 ml. before therapy. I don't know her exact weight as I don't have a scale that is accurate enough for that. However, my reasonable 'guestimate' is she is between 12 & 16 ounces. (so 3/4 lb - 1 lbs.)

Yes. I bookmark medical stuff so I can find it when I need it.

 

[RoyalChick]

Look what I found in my chickens clean coop this morning
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Oh dear. That looks like a lash egg which means infection. Do you know who ‘laid’ it?

 

[Marie2020]

Hahahaha

Sitting here with the kiddos roaming about in the back, when my mother started calling for the cat and shaking a treats container….

Well! Blanche took off flying / running / flying up towards to house and then everyone took off after her! They figured my mum had some goodies for them! Too funny
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Looking at Mr. P there in the background

 

[Marie2020]

Oh dear. That looks like a lash egg which means infection. Do you know who ‘laid’ it?

It looks like a chickens neck . Omg they both seem fine. What can I do if it is

 

[Marie2020]

Oh dear. That looks like a lash egg which means infection. Do you know who ‘laid’ it?

I have Amoxicillin 500mg here. It would be Tina Princess is not laying at all lately

 

[RoyalChick]

I have Amoxicillin 500mg here. It would be Tina Princess is not laying at all lately

First thing is to be sure that is what it is. Cut it open and show us the inside. Lash eggs are rubbery to touch and typically have lots of different layers of stuff inside.
Then how sure are you it is Tina? It has nothing to do with a regular egg ( though it may have some egg stuff inside) so Princess not laying may mean it is her. If Tina lays a normal egg today or tomorrow, then it is not her.
@BY Bob is more expert than me on antibiotics so can weigh in on the amoxicillin.

 

[bgmathteach]

As some of you read elsewhere we're having rooster drama here. I would like to know for those of you who have multiple coops how you manage your settings. Are the coops very close to each other or are they far apart ? Do you let the chickens choose in which coop they roost and if not, what type of separation keep them apart ? And most of all I'd be interested to know if any one of you ever had to move one or many chickens to a different coop, how you did it.

So, here is my situation - take what you want from it.

I have multiple coops - most are all in my 'primary' run, but some are spread out at other places on my land. The goal, though, eventually, is to have the coops all in the same general area/run space eventually.

As youngsters, I have a dedicated 'broody coop' that momma and the kids are in. Exclusively for the first 4-7 days. This is housed within the main run. Once all chicks are strong & running, they then have access to the entire 'big kids' run. I enforce only momma and kids sleeping in that coop for at least the first 4 weeks, so momma doesn't get harassed. After that, it is usually just momma and the littles, but sometimes a Roo, or a lower on the pecking order hen will start roosting in there sometimes. Once Momma abandons the kids, she usually goes back to roosting in her original coop...and the littles eventually select a coop to. For my last batch of 9 littles and 2 broodies, both broodies went back to their original coop (same one). 4 of the 'kids' eventually followed suit, the other 5 selected a different coop. (Note, my second in command' roo of that second coop accepted all the littles and has gotten 2 of the hens as his consort, now.)

As far as adults, with the exception of when I separate roos & hens for breeding, they all pick where they want to roost. For the most part there isn't much drama regarding the Roos. When young roos are getting to the 'idiot hormonal stage', there is always some skerfuffling. However, eventually they settle into their 'place' in the flock, and it works out just fine! They do still sometimes chase each other, but nothing majorly bloody/dangerous.

The biggest drama I had regarding Roos was when my top roo (mr. red...a BR) hatched a son that I kept. At some point, son beat the proverbial snot out of dad (not major damage, just lots of humiliation for dad.)

The young roos know enough to avoid the more dominant roos (until they get big enough to really take them on) Either way, I have a number of things for them to run under, hop on, generally get away if needed...and eventually the roo pecking order is established and it is fine. I have 2 coops presently with 2 roos (dominant & subordinant one) all other coops have only one adult roos, and there are some younger roos that are presently co-existing fine. I have a LOT of roos presently, but most are too young and not yet into ;hormonal idiot; stage. I will process many of them once they are large enough to do so, so I will generally keep to 1-2 roos per coop.

Note the following: I generally have small coops for the number of chickens in them (intentionally), but have large pen space, all with additional roof covering in the pens to have 'out of weather;' space. My coops have roughly 1.5 sq. feet of space per bird, but roughly 15-20 sq. feet of run space per bird. This really does work well for my chickens, roos included...and, again, for the most part, each one chooses where they roost!

 

[Ponypoor]

Look what I found in my chickens clean coop this morning
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What is it? Did you dissect it? I would!

Look forward to see what others think it is…?

 

[Marie2020]

Oh dear. That looks like a lash egg which means infection. Do you know who ‘laid’ it?

Highly likely it's Tina. I've given her 12mg of Amoxicillin. It's all I have here

She's looks so healthy since that canesten treatment