Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

" Cocorico"!
"What???"
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I need to hear the Chinese pronunciation...wonder if it's the same in Mandarin, Cantonese, and other languages?
*****
I only got pictures of Gaston and Merle drinking before it started raining. We're supposed to get a storm this afternoon and temperatures are supposed to drop below freezing next week- at last, five weeks late.
Unfortunately Théo and Cannelle are taking forever to molt and Nougat just joined them. My coop has many problems but it's good at staying relatively stable regarding temps, as it's a half buried ceiling, so I'm not worried about cold.The fact that Théo won't let Gaston approach the coop poses a problem when we have heavy rain or storms ( which is probably going to be very rare if the drought continues), as the best bushes and trees to take shelter are all around the coop.

Merle shows green shimmer on one side and blue-purplish from the other
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Great photos!

 

[BY Bob]

Ahhhhh!! What The Heck !!!!

I was cleaning up poops in the alleyway (put some shavings on them sweep them around and scoop them up) when I saw this poop (which I assume is from Mr P) and just FREAKED out! You all know me, if my animals so much as look sideways or have a feather or hair out of place I have to ensure all is ok.

But seeing this just panicked me poor baby!!

I have put this behind a spoiler in case you’re squeamish!
These are Ascarid, in horses they can be quite large! I had a horse I bought that pooped out a bucket of them when I wormed her

Spoiler: Ascaris

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Time to worm them.

 

[ManueB]

Google translate is NOT helpful on the rooster sound. Even writing the character it comes out as whoa-whoa-whoa (oh, oh, oh is the character translation) which isn't helpful if you're familiar with pinyin (the Chinese phonetics, including tone marks)

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[BY Bob]

Next to last :

Did @Ponypoor record that?

 

[featherhead007]

How cold?

This cold!

 

[RoyalChick]

" Cocorico"!
"What???"
View attachment 3310724
I need to hear the Chinese pronunciation...wonder if it's the same in Mandarin, Cantonese, and other languages?
*****
I only got pictures of Gaston and Merle drinking before it started raining. We're supposed to get a storm this afternoon and temperatures are supposed to drop below freezing next week- at last, five weeks late.
Unfortunately Théo and Cannelle are taking forever to molt and Nougat just joined them. My coop has many problems but it's good at staying relatively stable regarding temps, as it's a half buried ceiling, so I'm not worried about cold.The fact that Théo won't let Gaston approach the coop poses a problem when we have heavy rain or storms ( which is probably going to be very rare if the drought continues), as the best bushes and trees to take shelter are all around the coop.

Merle shows green shimmer on one side and blue-purplish from the other
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Great shots of Gaston drinking! I am not having much luck here today. I can’t seem to tempt anyone even with wild water!

 

[RoyalChick]

OMG apparently the round worms can show up in eggs

That’s it EVERYONE IS GETTING TREATED

I may be wrong but I don’t think Revolution is the drug of choice here.

 

[Ponypoor]

Time to worm them.

I found this really AWESOME site called 'bitchin chickens' seems the lady is in BC Canada and she has some good info:

Round worms
https://bitchinchickens.com/2019/10/03/roundworms/

Egg Withdrawl periods
https://bitchinchickens.com/2020/03/05/whats-up-with-egg-withdrawal-periods/

Ivermectin use
https://bitchinchickens.com/2019/04/29/ivermectin-for-parasite-control/

Withdrawl periods in broiler chickens for Ivernmectin
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28067137/

 

[Ponypoor]

I may be wrong but I don’t think Revolution is the drug of choice here.

Have a call into my Vet and will use pour-on Bimectin if I can get an accurate dosing - otherwise will use pour-on Ivermectin.

I found this really awesome site:

https://bitchinchickens.com/2019/04/29/ivermectin-for-parasite-control/

 

[Ponypoor]

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AWESOME HAHAHA!

I think Mr P is telling me 'just hurry up and get me out of this Hen House' (first thing in the morning).