Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Kris5902]

What COVID is demonstrating is the real danger the internet poses. Anyone can pose as an expert on the internet. Any rumor false or true can be spread in a second.

You marry this kind of accessibility to information with the desperation brought on by fear and exacerbated by distrust of the government and scientists associated with the government, you wind up with people drinking bleach and taking goat dewormer.

Then add in a lack of basic knowledge of biology as it is not well taught in schools. A dewormer effects multi-cellular organisms. A virus is smaller than a cell. The dewormer works in the intestinal tract. The virus infects the respiratory system and the blood. There is no mechanism for one to even reach the other let alone effect it. This is not high level science yet it is escaping people.

Conspiracy theories are one thing but science is science. This magnificent world wide web can be used for so much good, bringing chicken lovers together for an example, but it also allows nonsense to persist and spread as if it is real science. Just sad. Education is the key to ending things like this but we no longer train people how to think critically and examine facts for themselves, if we ever did.

Chicken tax
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Beautiful chicken tax, and thank you for putting that so well... I’ve seen pro-chemical solution posts create some awful backlash in threads. And the sheer absurdity of thinking a horse de-worming medication will cure a virus... this is why I can’t get access to needed medications here anymore. (Maybe they should restrict bleach and those laundry pods too?) Now, off to go out and get some back tax photos of my own!

 

[RoyalChick]

She could hire some youths to dig a path. I might even do it for some tea and crumpets.

Be careful what you offer - it is a big job! Also, remember I am the baker who didn't understand the whole crumpet part of the thread - I would have to learn about them. But once I do, I may take you up on that!

 

[featherhead007]

Just look at that little face!

Just look at this bigger face:

 

[featherhead007]

Just look at this bigger face:
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Seems, my new quick growth serum works.

 

[MaryJanet]

@BY Bob I meant to mention this in one of my posts yesterday, and it got deleted mid post and struggling with the pic uploading, etc... and we are both going to have to pay some chicken tax here, I warn you. In the “my chickens might have a STD, I’m calling all my contacts/other farmers” phone call post about the potential Mareks exposure on our island, I was also dragged into a “Covid discussion” with the hippie/co-op eccentric person. (Oh, and his “situation” also explains a chick purchase inquiry I received a few weeks ago from another chicken owning resident on the same property )

please rant here and explain to people (as your thread is almost going “viral” here apparently) on how inaccurate this “important information” on Covid is.... *shoving soapbox under the local expert’s feet*

So the Guy went from “I’m killing all my chickens because they have Mareks” (maybe... a virus, like you know?) to “you’re young and don’t need to worry about this but... Ivermectin cures Covid, but it’s so cheap no one will promote it. I was feeling ill and (before our vet restrictions) I had had a premonition so I bought the Apple flavor oral horse wormer version in bulk. It “cures”!Covid. Several South American countries and some Mexican provinces have completely eliminated Covid using ivomec!!! Blah blah bla...”

Anyhow, as I was mentioning how much I love ivomec for severe mite infestations (especially SLM) and lice, and I am also currently saying how well the antibiotics are doing in improving Roostie’s situation; I also feel obliged to say it isn’t a cure all. Please don’t think of it as such, and I highly doubt ivomec is a “cure” for Covid. Don’t consume horse wormers to cure a virus, please!!! Needless to say the phone conversation involved a lot of “Um-hmmm, you don’t say?”, and “that’s fascinating”. If he picked anything up (parasites) from drinking contaminated water, eating roadkill, etc ... it may have helped with that?

I’m quite vocally pro chemical treatment when appropriate and used in an informed and educated manner, and considering some of my own current situations, that’s possibly going to get unexpectedly very publicly exposed here. But please don’t eat horse wormer, and ivomec etc. are not effective against viruses.... that’s why it’s so hard for me to find meds for my chickens here, because some people advocate eating horse paste wormers as an anti viral solution...

Too right Kris!

 

[MaryJanet]

Except let the Australian Open happen in Melbourne (not exactly the ‘quarantine’ you’re referring to and yes I know, dollars needed for the economy etc etc) but gee I’m hoping it doesn’t lead to another long lock down in Vic with Dan the Man, you never know what’s coming

chicken tax
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Did you see one of those tennis players asked for a kitten to play with while in iso? The nerve, wanting a living, breathing beautiful kitten as a TOY for two weeks. Epic self-centredness.

 

[MaryJanet]

And such a mug it is! It's she friendlier to the others these days?

Now she's not experiencing permanent tummy ache, she's a sweetheart.

 

[MaryJanet]

Did you see one of those tennis players asked for a kitten to play with while in iso? The nerve, wanting a living, breathing beautiful kitten as a TOY for two weeks. Epic self-centredness.

Tax

 

[Scrambles83]

Tax

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Stunning

 

[Ribh]

You peeps wanted more peep pics, so here are more peeps:
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Alex, are you okay with cockerels? Because those are very large white spots on their heads. I could be wrong. I've never actually done chicks but BRs are a sexed breed & the large white spot is supposed to indicate a male.