Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

This cold!View attachment 3310966

You're trying to start up at 30,000 feet up?

 

[Ponypoor]

Did @Ponypoor record that?

Hahaha

Newfoundlander Rooster Crow

 

[RoyalChick]

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/

Hmmm. Interesting.
My understanding was that the 'mectins' were no longer effective against intestinal worms in chickens and that we should be using Safeguard/Fenbendazole.
I think it is because there was over-usage of ivermectin and others and the worms have become resistant to it.

 

[Ponypoor]

@RoyalChick

Found this article and blog:
https://bitchinchickens.com/2022/10/24/case-study-infectious-laryngotracheitis/

 

[BY Bob]

@RoyalChick

Found this article and blog:
https://bitchinchickens.com/2022/10/24/case-study-infectious-laryngotracheitis/

You clearly need to find a new job. You have too much time on your hands.

 

[Ponypoor]

Hmmm. Interesting.
My understanding was that the 'mectins' were no longer effective against intestinal worms in chickens and that we should be using Safeguard/Fenbendazole.
I think it is because there was over-usage of ivermectin and others and the worms have become resistant to it.

Don't know - it is so hard to find anything for chickens its hard to know! It really is gobsmacking how little there for 'backyard keepers' on poultry!

There is so much out there for horses, cattle, sheep, goats, dogs, cats...... but very little on poultry unless you're a huge poultry farm, and then in those cases, there are hardly any issues with worms because the hens are not free ranged, or live long enough if they are meat birds... I find it very sad that our feathered friends are not adequately cared for.

EDIT - by cared for I mean having the same amt of options dogs/cats/horse etc have.

 

[knoturavggrl]

Oh they are a gorgeous lot

Is Snicker a Polish? How old is she ? Love her colouring!

Thank you! Not polish, she is a Azure Egger (just a fancy EE lol) and they look remarkably like roadrunners. I think the breeding is very similar. Their rather unique mini crest I believe comes from the cream legbar in her mix. I have two of them Snicker and Doodle. They can lay then flat or pull them up like she did in the pic your referencing. Love them!

 

[Ponypoor]

You clearly need to find a new job. You have too much time on your hands.

ya..... that article was very illuminating, I knew about rc and her wee precious girl but really didn't read up on it at all. I cried through that whole blog (Oh RC I hope I didn't open fresh wounds - if so I am crying for these hens), I have never heard of that before and thought it was just a rare disease. And now this with Mr P today. I tell you Mr BY_Bob - this having pets is NOT for the faint of heart.

 

[Ponypoor]

Thank you! Not polish, she is a Azure Egger (just a fancy EE lol) and they look remarkably like roadrunners. I think the breeding is very similar. Their rather unique mini crest I believe comes from the cream legbar in her mix. I have two of them Snicker and Doodle. They can lay then flat or pull them up like she did in the pic your referencing.

Beautiful

 

[featherhead007]

Hahaha

Newfoundlander Rooster Crow

Look at Mr. P. He’s eyeballing you as if to say “Oh Gezz, there’s that crazy lady again, where’s our treats?”