Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

So glad to have my work week over. It has been pouring rain all day. Came home to a very local power outage :/ seems to just be part of our neighborhood, been about an hour and a half now. Utility trucks are around trying to sort it, hopefully soon. There is one family member I haven't introduced yet that doesn't like to get cold! View attachment 2512242this is my iguana miss Ruca, she is 13 (12 in this photo)

That's cool!

 

[BY Bob]

Ps. If that was a love peck, Then she must love me a lot!

Perhaps she was putting you in your place. It could be a dominance peck. Just saying.

 

[Kris5902]

Ok, not exactly mugshot Monday pics, or even cute and decent ones. DH has to take BIL in to the Big City (Vancouver) to do some “paperwork”. Apparently, he needs someone to hold his hand while he does it (shoot, when the weather clears I’m so going to need to get out there and start taking more chicken tax pictures... I can feel it!) so I’m on my own for the next two days, and we were scrambling to get everything set up before he leaves with our only currently working vehicle. As we were cleaning and changing Roostie’s dressings, BC Ferries finally got back to Andrew about the car accident on their property over six weeks ago that took out the driver side mirror on my truck. I took that opportunity to grab a picture of why we are delaying the lancing. This is one and a half days worth of walking about “dirt” (read poop) I had already washed his other foot.

and his foot opened up a little on the bottom as well! It’s like a crack and mostly ingrained dirt... but I’m cleaning, applying antibiotic ointment and covering with gauze and watching for necrotic tissues (I think some of it might be) or any further signs of infection. This is new... I’m thinking maybe the Tylosin and the drawing ointment are working differently on the issues?

It didn’t look like this two weeks ago at the vet or even that I could see on my last bandage change. Also the excessive redness you see in his good foot is mostly bleeding color from the bandage. And he started picking at the “new” (green) color right away! As for closing the wound after we lance it (I thought I had quoted the question, but my internet is buggy again) I was just going to bring the edges together and wrap it with gauze and the vet wrap to hold it “together”. Maybe use some medical tape. We do have superglue, but I would rather avoid using it if we don’t have to. It’s a play it by ear situation at this point.

If there are other suggestions on supplies please let me know and DH can hopefully source them while he is in town!

 

[micstrachan]

Hi friends. I will do my best to catch up, but can anyone tell me if I’ve missed anything big? How are Roostie and Cillin’s feet?

 

[BY Bob]

Ok, not exactly mugshot Monday pics, or even cute and decent ones. DH has to take BIL in to the Big City (Vancouver) to do some “paperwork”. Apparently, he needs someone to hold his hand while he does it (shoot, when the weather clears I’m so going to need to get out there and start taking more chicken tax pictures... I can feel it!) so I’m on my own for the next two days, and we were scrambling to get everything set up before he leaves with our only currently working vehicle. As we were cleaning and changing Roostie’s dressings, BC Ferries finally got back to Andrew about the car accident on their property over six weeks ago that took out the driver side mirror on my truck. I took that opportunity to grab a picture of why we are delaying the lancing. This is one and a half days worth of walking about “dirt” (read poop) I had already washed his other foot.View attachment 2512316

and his foot opened up a little on the bottom as well! It’s like a crack and mostly ingrained dirt... but I’m cleaning, applying antibiotic ointment and covering with gauze and watching for necrotic tissues (I think some of it might be) or any further signs of infection. This is new... I’m thinking maybe the Tylosin and the drawing ointment are working differently on the issues? View attachment 2512315
It didn’t look like this two weeks ago at the vet or even that I could see on my last bandage change. Also the excessive redness you see in his good foot is mostly bleeding color from the bandage. And he started picking at the “new” (green) color right away! As for closing the wound after we lance it (I thought I had quoted the question, but my internet is buggy again) I was just going to bring the edges together and wrap it with gauze and the vet wrap to hold it “together”. Maybe use some medical tape. We do have superglue, but I would rather avoid using it if we don’t have to. It’s a play it by ear situation at this point.

If there are other suggestions on supplies please let me know and DH can hopefully source them while he is in town!

Do you have chlorhexidine to prep the skin with?

 

[BY Bob]

Hi friends. I will do my best to catch up, but can anyone tell me if I’ve missed anything big? How are Roostie and Cillin’s feet?

Cillin's is fairly unchanged.

Roostie has a hard nodule that @Kris5902 can feel and move. She is planning to operate on his foot to remove it once the weather is better and there is less mud.

 

[micstrachan]

Cillin's is fairly unchanged.

Roostie has a hard nodule that @Kris5902 can feel and move. She is planning to operate on his foot to remove it once the weather is better and there is less mud.

Thanks. So nothing had changed since I checked last. At least neither is worse!

 

[micstrachan]

Oh, yay! It’s still Monday in California and I got a couple shots this past weekend!

 

[micstrachan]

We have a fingerprint time clock at work, at some point last Spring it decided I just didn't have fingerprints anymore. I think it was a combination of all the yardwork and the way I run the fabric through my hands. Luckily it can also use cards!

Happy fluffy butt Friday! View attachment 2507692

Fabulous fluff!

 

[micstrachan]

Happy Friday

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A four-fer! Love it!