Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ManueB]

Thank you for the donkey warning. It is probably too much for me to take on but I will give it serious thought. The difference for me from a LGD is that I like donkeys whereas am a bit fearful of dogs - so the work to put in to donkeys would be more pleasurable.
But itbwould need infrastructure and skills I don’t have - like dealing with their feet.

I think if you're ready to commit the time it would work. What one really needs is to be able to catch them in a field, and halter train them. It's just patience and treats. For the feet your best bet is to check if there are horses in your neighborhood and ask them to share when the farrier comes.

On Blanche’s pimple I would be inclined to try warm compresses. Which is a fancy word for a hot wet towel held on it for a few minutes. With luck it will resolve itself without more invasive measures. I wouldn’t bother with the antiseptics at this stage - the infection is already in there - but you will need them if you end up needing to cut it open.
I remember we talked about drawing salves a while ago - did you ever get any? That would be my next step after hot compresses.

I agree with this. Although i wish you luck holding a warm compress on her ear for an extended period of time.

I think it will probably be very difficult, she's a crazy small thing that is very hard to hold for even ten seconds. I'm not trying it today with the snow storm, but I will give it a try tomorrow when my partner's home, taking her inside the house where she may stay a bit longer quiet.
Draw salves don't exist here. Ichtammol is only used in one single ointment prescribed for psoriasis that is basically impossible to get a hand on. One of the many surprise throughout my chicken journey has been discovering how much very basic meds differ on each side of the Atlantic.
I have green clay, our honey, aloe vera I could try mixing and applying on it.
And I also searched chickens abscesses, but I'm not sure it could be qualified as such- in the pictures I found the swelling were much bigger and hard. This is very much like a human zit.

 

[Ponypoor]

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Turkey Vulture sunning itself on my fence; now that's an ugly mug! But they sure can soar beautifully.

 

[RoyalChick]

I think if you're ready to commit the time it would work. What one really needs is to be able to catch them in a field, and halter train them. It's just patience and treats. For the feet your best bet is to check if there are horses in your neighborhood and ask them to share when the farrier comes.



I think it will probably be very difficult, she's a crazy small thing that is very hard to hold for even ten seconds. I'm not trying it today with the snow storm, but I will give it a try tomorrow when my partner's home, taking her inside the house where she may stay a bit longer quiet.
Draw salves don't exist here. Ichtammol is only used in one single ointment prescribed for psoriasis that is basically impossible to get a hand on. One of the many surprise throughout my chicken journey has been discovering how much very basic meds differ on each side of the Atlantic.
I have green clay, our honey, aloe vera I could try mixing and applying on it.
And I also searched chickens abscesses, but I'm not sure it could be qualified as such- in the pictures I found the swelling were much bigger and hard. This is very much like a human zit.

I think there is a good chance it will resolve on its own. Ichthammol is definitely available in Europe - I think I first came across it in Germany!
Not pushing you to buy it as I do suspect this will resolve but I think you could get it if you wanted to have it in your armory.
https://www.desertcart.fr/products/48195861-ichthammol-ointment-30-g-1-oz
I did look at donkey rescues and most of the donkeys that can be adopted are older and already halter trained - some of the places give good descriptions of their personalities.
Thank goodness the rescue place nearest to me has already adopted out all their donkeys so I couldn't be tempted just by looking!

 

[ManueB]

I'm pretty sure they will have more rescues soon. If it's the same as here the males are not easily sold just like roos.
I'll try looking on the web a bit more- made in Ukraine and imported from USA sounds unlikely to reach my place, I've only received now the mite powder and the cats pellets ordered before Christmas .

 

[ValarieF]

My hubby just came home he went to the hospital for his back instead of work. Poor things in so much pain. Time to feed the chooks.

 

[knoturavggrl]

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[ValarieF]

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Beautiful pics.

 

[knoturavggrl]

I will see if I can find it.

That gal is such a beauty! I was trying to decide if she had some feathers on the legs?

She does all of my white chickens have feathered legs as do the FBCM’s. The white girls all have quite a bit of Maran in their breeding, I think this is where the feathered legs come from.

The splash and all the others have naked legs.

 

[knoturavggrl]

Beautiful pics.

Thank you

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Hard to tell. She was I bit miserable looking first thing but has perked up a bit.
It is sunny today so I am going to see if she is interested in wandering around a bit. I think I can trust the new girls to come back home and my fence charger is ready to deploy.

@RoyalChick Meant to post this three days ago and kept forgetting - I talked to Premier One last week about the plug-in energizer vs a battery/ solar charger energizer and GFI circuits getting tripped. The guy said No, the plug-in energizer won’t trip the circuit when the power is interrupted by something at the fence. I told him it hadn’t happened to me yet, I have the plug-in now and there’s been interruptions at the fence. I tried to get him to speculate about the story.

I think he said in an offhand comment that what’s out there aren’t powerful enough to trip the circuit, so I asked him if what I had heard was for the old-style fence energizers which might have been directly wired, or more powerful and were “always on”, not on/off like these, and he said those wouldn’t have either. That astounded me but I didn’t have the right questions for a specific additional response. Unfortunately he wasn’t the chatty or teacher type, or I caught them at a busy time, and he had answered my essential question. So I left it there.