Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

There’s nothing wrong with having feathers on my feet, come on hooman , I’ll take you out!!View attachment 4241829

Hello Homourable Sir Jaffar, I bow down to you (I’ll need help getting up now hahaha), tell your Hooman you wish for him to get some foot feathered Cochins.

 

[Ponypoor]

0.1 ml per kg. Twice a day for 5 days.

Is there a basic ‘strength’ for Baytril? I.E.: 80mg/ml is in that infant Tylenol I use. Chicken dose is 10mg/kg, and then there would be 20mg in 0.25ml which would dose a 2kg bird.

Just so I know what ask my Vet for (I’ll get some before he heads south).

 

[BY Bob]

I made one of these for a colleague of my husband's. 4x4 post ((about 5' high - it went into a run 6' high made out of 12'X6' high construction chain link panels - with some across the top, too)

I made it with 2x4 'arms' ( 3 of them - the bottom one was just under 5' long (so a little over 2' each side of the upright 4x4), the next one was 4' long and at the other 'face (so 90 degree angle to the first), and the last one was the parallel to the first...but on the other side of the post and was maybe 3' long, so about 14-15" each side of the 4x4.

To keep the post stable, I used 4 ~ 4' long 2x4. Had one end even with the 4x4 post edge, screwed to post, rotated the post 90 degrees, put the next one on, etc...so they 'spiraled/fanned' out from the post from all 4 sides. (I also put on the post above the last roost a picture hanger bracket (the long, jagged upper edge one) on 2 sides so a small feed/water cup could be put up there for a 'safe' feeder/waterer. I made this when I gave the colleague 2 young pullets last year- so they had an 'escape' place with food until they integrated with his other 2 older hens.) - there was no other place in their run to hide/get away.

Aside from the 4x4 post (which was pressure treated), the other 2x4s were from pallets (including one long 6' pallet!), and I used an eco-friendly, non-toxic treatment for them. (The guy would dismantle the run and move the coop to a carport type area that was fenced in for the winter, and didn't want the post permanently sunk into his lawn...and he would periodically move the pen during the 'growing' season'...so it needed to be moveable.

Sorry, I don't have pictures of it.

That sounds amazing. Photos would have been cool. Sounds very clever.

 

[BY Bob]

There’s nothing wrong with having feathers on my feet, come on hooman , I’ll take you out!!View attachment 4241829

There he is.

 

[featherhead007]

There he is.

Bob, I miss him so much! The dynamics of the tribe have changed so much, and not really for the better!

 

[featherhead007]

Hello Homourable Sir Jaffar, I bow down to you (I’ll need help getting up now hahaha), tell your Hooman you wish for him to get some foot feathered Cochins.

 

[Ponypoor]

Don’t cry, he was a beautiful wee lad, remember how good he was. Beautiful through and through.

 

[featherhead007]

I will tell this truth. I did have to go to three therapy sessions for the loss of Sir Jaffar. (I told the therapist that I had lost a dear family member) I never mentioned he was a chicken pet. !
Note: mental therapy only works if you allow it! Sir Jaffar is deeply implanted in my memory

 

[Candiru09]

Wow! that is one big pullet. How did you decide to get a C-Cross since they are known to have a lot of health issues? We lost a heavy Silkie last week ~ 5 yrs old.

Chunky is cute though. Does she walk ok?

It was our first time buying chickens and we didn't know that a Cornish Cross got so big. I had done research on chicken care and different breeds but I didn't know what a Cornish Cross was at the time. I just assumed that they got a little bit bigger than the average egg layer.
I was wrong.

She can actually walk surprisingly good. The colder weather seems to be making her more active. She's been doing this little hopping run.

 

[featherhead007]

Blue is a great hen too!
Just saying: