Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Grandmas Coop]

I call her one tail. After molting she didnt regrow all her tail feathers. ( I have another one called no tail)
Anyway she was great on Tuesday, causing trouble as always and then Wednesday morning she just laid around, drank water but didnt eat.
Same yesterday, and last night she must not have felt she could get up on the roost because she was on the floor under the roost this morning with poopy hinny, she didnt stand up to do business.
she got a bath, she couldnt stand herself up. I had a leghorn that acted like this once and she died in the night.

She has been drinking electrolyte/probiotic water today, but I had to put her in a crate so she wouldnt drown herself. she was drinking and it wouldnt go down cuz her crop was already full of water.
I did turn her and drained what I could out of her crop, it was just water and did not smell.

so while I was giving everyone a bath I kept her in the crate. I dont think what she has is cotangent.

Her comb looks fine, not shriveled and pale,

 

[featherhead007]

Oh no! I hope it's not something serious and she perks up over night.

 

[BY Bob]

I call her one tail. After molting she didnt regrow all her tail feathers. ( I have another one called no tail)
Anyway she was great on Tuesday, causing trouble as always and then Wednesday morning she just laid around, drank water but didnt eat.
Same yesterday, and last night she must not have felt she could get up on the roost because she was on the floor under the roost this morning with poopy hinny, she didnt stand up to do business.
she got a bath, she couldnt stand herself up. I had a leghorn that acted like this once and she died in the night.

She has been drinking electrolyte/probiotic water today, but I had to put her in a crate so she wouldnt drown herself. she was drinking and it wouldnt go down cuz her crop was already full of water.
I did turn her and drained what I could out of her crop, it was just water and did not smell.

so while I was giving everyone a bath I kept her in the crate. I dont think what she has is cotangent.

Her comb looks fine, not shriveled and pale,
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Did her crop empty when you turned her over or was there something left in it?

 

[featherhead007]

My Rhode Island Redhead is having the time of her life. It’s Dakota and me day, and she’s been waiting for me to take her into the house. It’s hot outside, but air conditioned inside and she’s loving it. I even gave her a chilled ear of corn from the fridge and she’s munching on it profusely.
She’s been right by my side, patiently awaiting her turn. Such a lovely hen.

 

[featherhead007]

I was given a big box of broccoli today and I broke some in pieces and the chooks started munching on it. That’s good, because I have a lot more of it.

 

[Sylvester017]

The light needs to be inside the coop. It will draw them in. Once they are roosted, you turn it off.

The way we're set up we can't put electricity inside the coop & we're unable to reach the pop door w/ a battery lantern which would be nice but cinder block steps & chicken ladder are in the way. Our easiest route as handicap people is to herd the 2 stragglers. Winter they'll go into the coop early (no crickets to chase).

 

[rural mouse]

The way we're set up we can't put electricity inside the coop & we're unable to reach the pop door w/ a battery lantern which would be nice but cinder block steps & chicken ladder are in the way. Our easiest route as handicap people is to herd the 2 stragglers. Winter they'll go into the coop early (no crickets to chase).

Can you put a lantern in through the nest boxes?

 

[featherhead007]

I was given a few solar panel lights that seem to work well. Just toys from tractor supply, but they seem to work. I keep one by the coop, and one on the front lawn. I could take pictures if you want to see them.

 

[featherhead007]

Dakota has been chanting something. I don’t know for sure, but it sounds like “Chic-Fil-A, all the way!”

 

[Sylvester017]

Can you put a lantern in through the nest boxes?

I like that idea. DH can lift the weighty lid... I can't lift yet till my arm strengthens in therapy. I wonder if a lantern light would bother the others cuz DH already keeps the lid open about 4-5 inches in summer for extra ventilation so bright light from the porch is already entering that way in addition to the light entering thru 2 windows. After all go to roost DH closes the lid for safety from potential predators cuz the 4 nestboxes is where all 5 Silkies sleep.

W/ only 6 birds in a backyard it's not so bad to deal with the troublemakers compared to if we had a huge property where we'd have to hunt them down every night