Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

A Pony Sunday pup...

When my friend passed in January her DH & DS adoped a 10-yr-old pup from a neighbor who unwillingly had inherited a dog when their elderly relative also passed.

Our friend's DS lovingly w/ the new girl "Princess" ~ she's a little button of a pup & I KNOW she has a swell new home as these people lost their 13-yr-old miniature poodle recently.
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Oh my that's a gorgeous little pumpkin and all snuggled up with love

 

[Marie2020]

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I could just sneeze thinking of all that dust

 

[Marie2020]

It just scares me that possibly the breath I take won’t be enough to keep me alive

What wrong? Alex, now I'm really worried

 

[notabitail]

I could just sneeze thinking of all that dust

For me, it just gets in my eyes.

 

[RoyalChick]

Wow. That looks nasty.

 

[notabitail]

Wow. That looks nasty.

It is. My phone started trying to correct the color so the color is off a bit in that video, but it's pretty close to real life. Everything in here has a tinge of red thanks to the dust reflecting.

 

[BY Bob]

My brother is allergic and after living 20 years without cats, he heard about these special cat kibbles with egg white for allergic people, and adopted two kittens from a friend of mine in September.
The kibbles work for him. He wanted to test whether it was a placebo or not, so he went back to normal kibbles in december for a while and the allergies flared back up immediately, and stopped when he switched back.

They don't completely suppress his symptoms but they make them much less intense and easy to bear.

My brother is also asthmatic, and since he is a paramedic his local doctor is a friend, so he had no problems convincing him to prescribe cortisone and a bronchodilator preventively before the cats arrived, in case the kibbles did not work. He said he did have to use them once early on, after he was on guard for three days and the kittens had explored all over the house but did not dare go outside on their own. Since then he has had no issue.

He gets them on Amazon and they cost four times the usual kibbles I buy. The process to make them with the egg white is apparently still under an exclusive patent, here at least, but I suppose at some point price will go down. I can ask him for the name of the brand if anyone wants.

Short answer is no, I'm not sure, but some options seem more likely than others.

Long answer will be a bit long, my apologies. She had seizures at the same time last year for a few days. I immediately started supplementing her with food rich in vitamin B and E and the seizures completely stopped.

So up to now I had assumed nutritional deficiency. However I've been giving her the supplement daily since all that time, so I'm not so sure now that is the reason.

The next two most likely possibilities are that she got pecked in a nerve sensitive place by another chicken, or that she has some kind of neurological issue getting old.

Other reasons I've thought about don't really fit. Marek, ALV, Newcastle can show up as seizures, but it wouldn't make sense that she stopped having them after a few days last year and was in great shape for a whole year. Epilepsy is a thing in chicken but it's genetic and shows up early. And it doesn't look like a stuck nerve as happened to Piou-piou because she has two very different types, one where on one side her wing and thigh goes paralysed and she runs in circle, and one where she flaps her wings uncontrollably.

My partner thinks it could possibly be linked to the fact that she may be approaching her laying season again, which usually lasts from march to mid may.

Anyway, the first seizure I saw was on the 7 February, and the last was Sunday, so I dearly hope she is over it again.
If anyone has any insight I'd be glad to hear about it !

19 June 2022, Chipie with 13 days old Merle, Léa, Gaston and Piou-piou.
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Thanks so much for the response. I've not dealt with seizures thankfully so I have no advice. I wish I could help. If you do figure out what might be the cause could you please share? I'm very curious about this.

 

[BY Bob]

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Nothing like new friends.

 

[Marie2020]

For me, it just gets in my eyes.

I'd put caster oil on my eyes daily

 

[Marie2020]

It is. My phone started trying to correct the color so the color is off a bit in that video, but it's pretty close to real life. Everything in here has a tinge of red thanks to the dust reflecting.

Do you leave dishes of water in your rooms?