Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ikslo]

I... Am... So behind...

Aliss was bit by a dog today. She's resting now. There's a puncture wound clear thru the skin but not very deep into the muscle. I flushed it with epsom salt water. Tomorrow dad and I will recycle cans and pick up antibiotic ointment with the cash. She's weak on her right leg and just wants to lie down, but she's eating and drinking between naps. She's hanging out in the garage with us

I don't want to bother her right now so I'll get pics of the wound tomorrow when I flush it again. It hardly bled, it's just a hole in the skin and slight damage to the muscle. She's missing a lot of feathers. She had a prolapse when I first found her but it corrected itself almost immediately.

I'm not angry at the dog or her owner. I know the risks of free ranging, no less in a rural area with a lot of dogs and other predators. She's a good girl and she was just being a dog. Aliss is alive, sore but alive, and she has a good chance at recovery. That's what matters.

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Literal egg on her face...

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It's been a long day for poor, sweet Aliss.

to Aliss. May she have a speedy recovery!

 

[Ponypoor]

It's wise to bring a friend. Is she particularly close to one of the others? Who does she hang out with/dust bathe with/roost with?

Is this a SHRA

 

[rural mouse]

Is this a SHRA

No. I asked questions to think about when bringing the friend. No one else did.

 

[Ponypoor]

Egg update

2 eggs have hatched, s3 is one of them and appears to be white (or at least light), I had my red light turned on with my headlamp so colour was hard to see, the other one has chipmunk stripes! What’s that all about in a silkie?! I managed to salvage S3 egg, I think it’s from the light chick at least, as the chick was sort of snuggled in it.

P1 and the third silkie egg have yet to hatch, didn’t see any pipe when I checked but it was a very quick check so don’t know…. I shoved them back under mum the same way I pulled them out (same side up).

Whiskers is being a good mama, I am home early today, so I’ll check on her when I get home.

Have a lovely morning/day everyone.

 

[Ponypoor]

No. I asked questions to think about when bringing the friend. No one else did.

Still think I need some photos of chicks

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Egg update

2 eggs have hatched, s3 is one of them and appears to be white (or at least light), I had my red light turned on with my headlamp so colour was hard to see, the other one has chipmunk stripes! What’s that all about in a silkie?! I managed to salvage S3 egg, I think it’s from the light chick at least, as the chick was sort of snuggled in it.

P1 and the third silkie egg have yet to hatch, didn’t see any pipe when I checked but it was a very quick check so don’t know…. I shoved them back under mum the same way I pulled them out (same side up).

Whiskers is being a good mama, I am home early today, so I’ll check on her when I get home.

Have a lovely morning/day everyone.

Congrats on the babies. For me, chipmunk chicks have ended up being partridges. Let the pale one dry and look at it again in the daylight. You said buff was a slight possibility. Maybe, just maybe you have a little buff silkie.