Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[bgmathteach]

I want to chime in about the donkeys, but my phone's screen keeps bugging .
I'll try again.
I told my neighbor's donkey's story before here .
I know you really liked them despite the story @RoyalChick .
Since then I've also posted a picture of a mini donkey, Popeye, the small friend they got for See you the Arabian horse.
He has been a huge pain in their b... as well! He kept jumping electric nettings and running around his neighbours, the highland cows, getting them all worked up. He is impossible to catch.
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So beware that donkeys will require almost as much education as an LGD. Of course they would be less dangerous to your chickens if it failed...and btw you need two at least, you can't keep a lone donkey!
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I also have a mug from yesterday of Blanche, and with the mug I'm asking for advice. She has had a small zit on her ear from before the hawk attack, since the 29 th of December. It was so small I didn't put anything on it, but it's not going away and if anything, it's actually bigger. It's soft and slightly warm to the touch. I don't have any antibiotic : I have alcohol, peroxide, betadine, and a generic human disinfectant. Do you believe I should use any of those ?

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And here is why I'm not taking mugs today...
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What a lovely, picturesque photo! If it hasn't closed yet, you really need to post this in the 'Winter on the Farm' contest!!!

Sorry, I don't know enough about such things on chickens - I'm not sure what it is, especially having been on her as long as it has. I will let someone more knowledgeable than I tackle that! I will say, though, that is does concern me a bit that it is warm..... (warmer than her other earlobe, I'm assuming.)

Well, there you go, @RoyalChick, 2 donkeys, chickens, next thing is you'll need some goats to help clear out the 'back forty', and you'll have a right proper farm!!!

 

[BY Bob]

I feel so much better this morning. Boy is it cold out gonna let it warm up a little before I let the chooks out.

So glad to hear it

 

[BY Bob]

Mugs Monday:
Cinnamon
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Cinnamon
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Powder (AKA Chip)
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Oreo and Powder(chip)
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Great mugs!

 

[featherhead007]

Crazy weather today. Rain and wind gusts. My temporary wind blocks blew down inside the coop (scared the chooks)
I’m going to have to build something more permanent than cardboard I guess.

 

[RoyalChick]

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 .

I think Ukraine must do a lot of generic drug formulation - I can't remember what it was now, but something I bought recently I was surprised to find it came from Ukraine.

 

[GregnLety]

4 more babies this morning

 

[RoyalChick]

@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.

Interesting. And thank you for enquiring for me.
I must say it makes no sense to me because the whole purpose of a GFI circuit is to interrupt the power when there is a short. And the whole point of an electric fence is to create a short through an intruding animal.
Weird.
If I ever have to buy a new one I will explore this more thoroughly, but for now I just got a new battery and that seems to have charged up. I still need to reattach it to the fence and clear the fence of debris and check the fence and (I am exhausted just thinking about it!).

 

[knoturavggrl]

View attachment 33768744 more babies this morning

Fluffy babies!!! so cute!!

 

[lightm]

How to make a "homemade" egg?

Note that she camouflaged herself on her back with pine shavings throughout the process.

 

[knoturavggrl]

Interesting. And thank you for enquiring for me.
I must say it makes no sense to me because the whole purpose of a GFI circuit is to interrupt the power when there is a short. And the whole point of an electric fence is to create a short through an intruding animal.
Weird.
If I ever have to buy a new one I will explore this more thoroughly, but for now I just got a new battery and that seems to have charged up. I still need to reattach it to the fence and clear the fence of debris and check the fence and (I am exhausted just thinking about it!).

I know absolutely zilch about electric fences but that does sound like a laborious process!