Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[bgmathteach]

Might be making beer there

No hops.

 

[Ponypoor]

Fly be free!

 

[Ponypoor]

Mugs Monday
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Shep doing shep stuff

Fly be free!

 

[notabitail]

You guys are worrying. Neither Bernie nor Babs is showing any signs of molting.
I hope they don’t molt when it gets really cold!

I'm not really worrying!

 

[Ponypoor]

Mugs Monday

In keep with the leghorn theme, Flopsy showing off her floppy comb and not so long legs.

And Petunia has blue ear lobes will she lay blue eggs? Soon I shall know.

Laslty Mr P is getting new dreadlocks

 

[notabitail]

Mugs Monday.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Vet trip for Anna today, am waiting for them to tell me when they can see her. She seems no worse but no better. She did open her eyes and walk around the ledge of the puppy playpen, & eat several bites of crumbles when I offered the dish. Walked a little more as if she was thinking about jumping down to drink but decided not to and went back to resting. I shringef her about .30 mil of sugar water, then made a drench dose of Corid and gave her that, then another .50 mil of sugar water.

Will take all the Spuds with her. Decided I needed to band them to easily tell them apart now that a medical issue has come up. Tentative names are Tedi (blue band, calm and tuneful chick), Ida (green band, calm enough but doesn't tolerate long handling, prefers to be freestanding on my wrist, shoulder, head) and Anna (yellow band, very calm too).

Anna talks but peeps very faint peeps. Fought me pretty well getting her beak open. She's preened a little, stretched her leg and wing, "sunbathed" and moved further from or closer to the warm panel as she needs it. She wants darkness though.

This might be hers from last night, it was under where she was roosted

These are from the others I think

But then these appeared later on top of both, left and right, and it might be hers, or not. She was on that roost resting but the other two were moving around everywhere. Rats, this might be a good reason for keeping them near each other but not in the exact same quarters.
Anyway, Ida and Tedi are drinking Corid water, at the therapeutic dose of 1.5 tsp Corid 20% powder per gallon of water.

Just took a pic

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Molting is bad this year. Squirrel is definitely going through a hard molt and some of the others are looking very rough as well. They have had feather fixer for almost a week now to help them through this time. The shed feathers are raked up every afternoon. Each morning it looks like a chicken has exploded underneath the roosts. Friday my brother was convinced with the amount of feathers that something had gotten one of my black hens. No they are all accounted for. He did not believe me until I pointed out to him a naked Squirrel. I am terrible because I did not have a shirt on that hen to keep her warm. I think we are in for a long cold winter. Molting started early in my flock. My horses are backing up my suspicions as Dirt's winter coat is already in and Russ is working hard on his.

 

[featherhead007]

You need house poop for that!

“House poop”?

 

[featherhead007]

Ummmm I meant HORSE poop

Darn autocorrect!