Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Or if you’re a Polish, get flipped!

Phyllis has never been blown over by the wind. At least not that I've seen. She is very aerodynamic.

 

[BY Bob]

I am traveling this week so only able to check the Princesses on camera and pop in here from time to time.
Babs seems to be reconsidering the rafters. I dint have bandwidth to share the video - just this screen grab - but a couple of times I held my breath because I really thought she was about to launch herself up there!
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Before I left I did some rearranging in the Chicken Palace.
I removed the brooder fire escape and added a hanging feeder. They already have two feeders but when I am home they get to go out foraging and now they will be confined until I get back.
This has all precipitated a new world order.
Sylvie now roosts with Babs and Bernie, and the remaining Pentagonists (the Quadratics?) get to have breakfast without Bernie chasing them. They seem to like the extra feeder a lot!

I love the idea of another feeder for them.

 

[Ponypoor]

Phyllis has never been blown over by the wind. At least not that I've seen. She is very aerodynamic.

If she is like Mr P she will stand face into the wind so her lovely locks are all wind blown

 

[Gigachad poultry]

Adorable video followed by a adorable tax!

 

[BY Bob]

EWR. Lots of jets. Doubt they are for sale!

Flight talk tax: Piglet coming in to land - better than a jet!
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She was pretty high up!

 

[BY Bob]

If she is like Mr P she will stand face into the wind so her lovely locks are all wind blown

That is true. She does that. I think her large tail help to rotate her into the wind like a wind vane

 

[ManueB]

Thank you for your perspective and experience!

It was six days on Corid water with basically no improvement and eyes looking worse. I haven’t read anywhere that birds with coccidiosis don’t change for the better during treatment and that you have to wait 21 days for the damage to heal and sometime in there the birds start acting better? That doesn’t seem to be the usual course, just the sense I get in reading here on BYC. Or is it and I’ve missed that?

She had seemed a bit perkier when the vet saw her last Monday, then got worse and stayed at that lower level for the rest of the week. I think my attentions to her with water & food helped, but the eyes got worse. And I never got an answer on the eyes from the vet except she wants to hide and have darkness cause she doesn’t feel good. If blindness is really an outcome surviving extended illness with mycoplasma, then I wanted to head that off and not wait.

Peanut had bubbles in her eyes last November and treated for suspected mycoplasma. It was after exposure to the Buckeyes (and their run areas) at six weeks old or so, that now Anna is visibly sick.

I think you did right. I have also not heard of Coccidiosis not responding at all to Corid after several days. And I think at the stage Anna is at she needs help quickly.

I have suspected Mycoplasma in my flock and read a bit about it at the time. I had one hen with bubbles in her eyes and four chickens with very swollen faces, and sneezes. I didn't treat any with antibiotics because their behaviour were otherwise completely normal. Just rinsed the eye and checked that they had no difficulty breathing. Those symptoms disappeared by themselves, but now I do have most of my birds sneezing a few times a day.

I suppose you know that the antibiotics treat the symptoms but do not eliminate the bacteria, that birds can be asymptomatic carriers, or develop symptoms that range from light to deadly, and that stress tend to make them develop symptoms.

I would personally not treat Ida with antibiotics just for sneezes, and keep the Baytril for when she really needs it. Enrofloxacin seems to be a very effective and wide range antibiotic. My view is that those must be used sparingly to preserve their efficiency. It's a personal choice. I think you can wait one day or two to see the evolution.

The ivermectin isn’t working on the lice, I have seen round worms dead in the poop so at least it getting rid of that. But Ravens and Mr P needed to be treated with the equine fly spray I had been using for spraying down the roost ledges after cleaning.

I had initially sprayed only the Azurs, but when I checked Raven and they hadn’t died on her I sprayed her, and then tonight at evening check I was able to check over Mr P and he too was just loaded, so I sprayed him down.

Today I am making a run to the feedmill to get some more spray, and I will just go ahead and spray everyone. I am not going to bother with a repeat of the ivermectin for the lice, they were wormed and that’s fine get rid of the ascarid and any other icky parasites in their gut. I wish I could do round worms but I am not sure I can get just praziquantel for them, and don’t know a dosage at any rate.

Ok well here is a few more mugs

The 14 week olds

Cash
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Ruth the little pecker
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Are they starting to get red?

Not sure you see my post before you run to the store, but just in case, I would suggest getting also some powder. My chickens utterly hate the spray and it becomes more and more difficult to use it on them, whereas they don't mind the pyrethrum/ geraniol powder or the neem oil.
If you had tapeworms in your flock, you would know, believe me. They reproduce by shedding live segments through feces so it's not like roundworms, you can't have them without knowing, unless you never look at a fresh poop (after a while the segments move away).

Sorry for the yuck! A few Monday mugs.
Laure

Pied beau

Piou-piou

Nieva (both a mug and a thirst pic!)

 

[ManueB]

@Gigachad poultry (or anyone who knows ) i’ve noticed my cockerel Pied beau has a similar colour to your roo Darcy, black with a yellow mane. Would you know what it's called (if it has a name)?

 

[notabitail]

Phyllis has never been blown over by the wind. At least not that I've seen. She is very aerodynamic.

The wind here was so bad yesterday, that it could knock Phyllis over. The wind blew over a piece of wood too.

 

[Gigachad poultry]

@Gigachad poultry (or anyone who knows ) i’ve noticed my cockerel Pied beau has a similar colour to your roo Darcy, black with a yellow mane. Would you know what it's called (if it has a name)?

I literally almost had a heart attack of pure joy when I saw that, I thought "how did they get a photo of Darcy!?!" And "ahh Darcy is so handsome!" Can you send a picture of him completely? He has what is called straw lacing and a dominant base gene which is black. Darcy has the straw lacing from the Sussex genes only it's a color swap. Yellow hackle feather with black lacing from the Sussex. Sorry if that's confusing! Here is Darcy for comparison:

I'm planning on calling the breed the Dacy Giant or Octavia's Fowl!