Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Kris5902]

If you could get him to ride in on your shoulder that might work.

More than any of the rest of us it seems you have trouble getting stuff. Do you have a medical kit or list of things to have on hand? You need some inventory of medical supplies.

I do have a small chicken first aid kit I’ve built up, as well as a more thorough human one. Sadly it is very hard to get vet care here for chickens and most things aren’t available without a prescription. I have triple antibiotic ointment, bandages, vet wrap, saline wound wash, baby aspirin, antihistamine tablets, enrofloxacin (at the end of its shelf life though) and powdered calcium supplements on hand, as well as monistat cream and a laxative for crop issues. @CrazyChookChookLady , I am out of iodine and haven’t been able to source more, or betadine. I have rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, Epsom salts, and coconut oil as well. Vaseline, preparation H, and personal lubricant for eggbinding and prolapses. I have a small amount of mite and lice destroying powder (that may/will cause cancer and is no longer available at all in Canada) and I might be able to “liberate” some ivermectin from the farm if they still have any.

It’s antibiotics and other “medications” that are very hard to source. I did manage to get my cat’s vet to prescribe me some amprolium for my “pet birds” but he could only order it by the gallon, so I am totally set if I ever run into coccidiosis again. I would like to add a wormer, but good luck getting my hands on any.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Thank you for encouragement. I really am very tempted. I don't have to decide until January but of course I have spent every spare minute Googling those kinds of chickens to see if they will fit well into my little family in the Palace!

Of course you should get more....
More Legbars should fit in beautifully. I think I'd be leerier of the Wyandottes & EEs ~ but I've never kept BLRW. Someone on this thread was breeding them but I can't think just who @ the moment. It's always a bit of a gamble on personality but you have plenty of space.

Lol, you seriously asking this bunch of enablers if you should get more chickens?!? My vote is yes, if you have the space and the set up (which we know you do!) as well as the time and energy... go for it! And I wouldn’t really worry about olive eggers getting picked on, at least once they are at least close to grown. Every Female chicken I have with beard or muffs managed to inherit some of her daddy’s attitude. I moved Crack Beak my buff girl in with full year older girls around POL, and almost moved her right back out again because of bullying (my adult hens!)

Oh dear . We are hopeless enablers....

Pass.
You have a lovely stable flock.
I would wait, probably at least another year to see if they develope health issues.
If they do, then you will know not to get more from where you got them.
That would give you time to look for a breed/s that you would want to keep for the rest of your chickenering life.

I'm such a spoilsport.

Except for Shad of course.

There he goes again with his logic, practicality and years of experience! *

Honestly Shad, sometimes you're no fun at all!


(* just in case it wasn't clear, I am teasing you Shad. I really do appreciate your logic, practicality and years of experience !)

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

I do have a small chicken first aid kit I’ve built up, as well as a more thorough human one. Sadly it is very hard to get vet care here for chickens and most things aren’t available without a prescription. I have triple antibiotic ointment, bandages, vet wrap, saline wound wash, baby aspirin, antihistamine tablets, enrofloxacin (at the end of its shelf life though) and powdered calcium supplements on hand, as well as monistat cream and a laxative for crop issues. I am out of iodine and haven’t been able to source more, or betadine. I have rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, Epsom salts, and coconut oil as well. Vaseline, preparation H, and personal lubricant for eggbinding and prolapses. I have a small amount of mite and lice destroying powder (that may/will cause cancer and is no longer available at all in Canada) and I might be able to “liberate” some ivermectin from the farm if they still have any.

It’s antibiotics and other “medications” that are very hard to source. I did manage to get my cat’s vet to prescribe me some amprolium for my “pet birds” but he could only order it by the gallon, so I am totally set if I ever run into coccidiosis again. I would like to add a wormer, but good luck getting my hands on any.

I did this too, I have accumulated a decent supply of first aid materials; bandaging materials, first aid creams and cleansers, vitamins and supplements, a few medications (like Corid), scissors, tweezers, popsicle sticks to fashion splints, etc.
I keep it all in a big plastic tub that I picked up at Lowe’s.
I even got a suturing kit for just-in-case.

 

[BY Bob]

This is a joyous occasion in an otherwise awful year.
congratulations to your whole family!

Thank you so much. We will never forget it.

 

[Kris5902]

Could you make him a hammock/sling to help with the foot soaking?

I have done this many times, Tippie loves her chicken sling, and it was very helpful in healing Hoppy’s leg. Roostie though will have none of it... he also won’t do the “calm down” thing when I wrap/burrito him. To soak his foot I have to hold him, hunched over the little tub of water holding a ten pound rooster for twenty minutes isn’t either of our idea of a good time. At first the soaking helped, softening the bumble so I could remove it. But now that it’s in his foot and the foot is swollen and hot it seems to cause him pain.

 

[featherhead007]

Our Christmas tree

 

[BY Bob]

I do have a small chicken first aid kit I’ve built up, as well as a more thorough human one. Sadly it is very hard to get vet care here for chickens and most things aren’t available without a prescription. I have triple antibiotic ointment, bandages, vet wrap, saline wound wash, baby aspirin, antihistamine tablets, enrofloxacin (at the end of its shelf life though) and powdered calcium supplements on hand, as well as monistat cream and a laxative for crop issues. I am out of iodine and haven’t been able to source more, or betadine. I have rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, Epsom salts, and coconut oil as well. Vaseline, preparation H, and personal lubricant for eggbinding and prolapses. I have a small amount of mite and lice destroying powder (that may/will cause cancer and is no longer available at all in Canada) and I might be able to “liberate” some ivermectin from the farm if they still have any.

It’s antibiotics and other “medications” that are very hard to source. I did manage to get my cat’s vet to prescribe me some amprolium for my “pet birds” but he could only order it by the gallon, so I am totally set if I ever run into coccidiosis again. I would like to add a wormer, but good luck getting my hands on any.

I would keep antibiotics on hand at all times. I would not worry too much about the expiration date. In fact, I do keep antibiotics on hand at all times, along with Corrid and 2 different wormers. You should be able to get safeguard goat wormer I would think. I keep nutridrench handy for instant energy along with assorted syringes etc.

With antibiotics so hard to get and needed immediately, I keep them on hand.

 

[BY Bob]

I did this too, I have accumulated a decent supply of first aid materials; bandaging materials, first aid creams and cleansers, vitamins and supplements, a few medications (like Corid), scissors, tweezers, popsicle sticks to fashion splints, etc.
I keep it all in a big plastic tub that I picked up at Lowe’s.
I even got a suturing kit for just-in-case.

I need to get a suturing kit. Where did you get yours?

 

[Kris5902]

I did this too, I have accumulated a decent supply of first aid materials; bandaging materials, first aid creams and cleansers, vitamins and supplements, a few medications (like Corid), scissors, tweezers, popsicle sticks to fashion splints, etc.
I keep it all in a big plastic tub that I picked up at Lowe’s.
I even got a suturing kit for just-in-case.

I am on the fence about adding a suture kit... some things I am not really comfortable with. We do have butterfly closures in our human first aid kit, and I have several rolls of medical tape, that and guaze pads was what we used to dress the foot when the bumble was draining. I had hoped we had gotten it all when it finally stopped being gross and leaky with the pus At the site of the infection. But there was so much of it I was worried something like this could happen. I am glad I held off on treating his other foot, or he wouldn’t be walking at all now.

 

[BY Bob]

Our Christmas tree
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That's a beauty.