Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

Well this is the 3rd time but it's definitely good night from me and my animals

 

[notabitail]

Well this is the 3rd time but it's definitely good night from me and my animals

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Good night.

 

[Marie2020]

@RoyalChick

That was me joking around that started that . Goodnight

 

[Sylvester017]

Wow. I hope that isn’t the case with Tassels. She is only just over a year old.
The strange egg was her first back to laying after being broody for 23 days and then no laying for about a week after I got her to snap out of broodiness.
Honestly it didn’t occur to me something might be wrong, I assumed she was just getting the production line back up and running.
Oh I do hope she is OK.

I pray your lady is ok too!

In our Silkie's case from the time she layed her 1st egg as a pullet she was always abnormally fidgety and agitated when she needed to lay. Then once she layed the egg she was fine and happy until the next egg needed laying. This went on for years every egg she layed. She got so agitated that she scratched so hard in the nestboxes that she tore off a few toenails and lost a couple toes. Blood everywhere. I rushed this girl to the vet more times than I took my own children to the pediatrician!
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Many times we brought her into the house to observe her cuz sometimes she seemed so ill. When she was not laying or going hormone broody she was the sweetest, smartest, friendliest little tot in the flock. Kids were not afraid to hold her she was so tame.

It killed us to put her down but her last rubbery egg was stuck outside her vent and still attached to the bleeding ovary. She would have painfully bled to death so my vet put her down.

"MINI" -- magnify the pic to see missing toes/toenails

 

[Marie2020]

I pray your lady is ok too!

In our Silkie's case from the time she layed her 1st egg as a pullet she was always abnormally fidgety and agitated when she needed to lay. Then once she layed the egg she was fine and happy until the next egg needed laying. This went on for years every egg she layed. She got so agitated that she scratched so hard in the nestboxes that she tore off a few toenails and lost a couple toes. Blood everywhere. I rushed this girl to the vet more times than I took my own children to the pediatrician!
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Many times we brought her into the house to observe her cuz sometimes she seemed so ill. When she was not laying or going hormone broody she was the sweetest, smartest, friendliest little tot in the flock. Kids were not afraid to hold her she was so tame.
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It killed us to put her down but her last rubbery egg was stuck outside her vent and still attached to the bleeding ovary. She would have painfully bled to death so my vet put her down.

"MINI" -- magnify the pic to see missing toes/toenails
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I'm so sorry you lost her,, she was really beautiful

 

[CCsGarden]

Our Mourning Doves have the salmon-colored feet -- such gentle birds.

When playing our Wingspan board game we discovered there are many different Dove varieties around the world!

Our Silkie "SUZU" watching us play "Wingspan" -- one bird card is a "Prairie Chicken" and another one is a "Red Jungle Fowl" and 100's of more birds -- we play this board game every day and DH plays the online version w/ some of his online bird-loving friends.
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Yup! There are many types of doves!

We have morning doves, white winged doves, Inca doves, Eurasian collared doves and some others!
Here's a picture of my pet dove!
And some babies I rescued.

 

[Ponypoor]

Stick um up sugar

I'm bushed and off to bed. We can duel when I get back tomorrow

Good grief I didn't know I could talk that much. I hope you are not calling me a chatter box

Night Marie

 

[BY Bob]

I pray your lady is ok too!

In our Silkie's case from the time she layed her 1st egg as a pullet she was always abnormally fidgety and agitated when she needed to lay. Then once she layed the egg she was fine and happy until the next egg needed laying. This went on for years every egg she layed. She got so agitated that she scratched so hard in the nestboxes that she tore off a few toenails and lost a couple toes. Blood everywhere. I rushed this girl to the vet more times than I took my own children to the pediatrician!
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Many times we brought her into the house to observe her cuz sometimes she seemed so ill. When she was not laying or going hormone broody she was the sweetest, smartest, friendliest little tot in the flock. Kids were not afraid to hold her she was so tame.
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It killed us to put her down but her last rubbery egg was stuck outside her vent and still attached to the bleeding ovary. She would have painfully bled to death so my vet put her down.

"MINI" -- magnify the pic to see missing toes/toenails
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It's just never easy. Especially with the sweet ones.

 

[Ponypoor]

It is not for my sake - I speed read/skim and can always put you on ignore to make that even easier.
Just remember we have lost many people from this lovely community because they found the thread was getting cluttered with chatter.
That is sad, and you should not feel proud about making it worse.
There are many other threads where chatter is encouraged.

Chatter tax: broody Sylvie nit entering into the spirit of being a jail bird. She seems to be making the 2x4 into her nest and it is hard to cool her down in 95° temperatures. I really am curious to know if the dunk in water method works.
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Well whiskers just got rained on today, maybe that’s why she flogged me haha!

If you try it let me know the outcome. Right now I am just going to continue hauling the old bat off the nest and locking her out. And Dorothy

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh well, I think 6 and a half hours is okay for this antibiotic
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Try to keep it as close to a schedule as you can. This will keep the levels of antibiotics non your system level and work better.

Tax
The two silkie chicks sun bath the other night