Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Shadrach]

Yes I know but I can't do current pics from my PC, thought I'd get a photo taken today from my phone, and that either uses data or there's an offload with cable involved, unless our internet upload speed happens to be reasonable....hey it's pretty good right now. Here it is!

Popcorn and Butters scratching around the loose dirt of a garden edge, just barely snow-free now. You can see on the right a bit of the raised-bed wood. It's next to the driveway and it's a snow pile about three feet high. Will have to shovel it off or it will be June before it's plantable.
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Medical note: Butters is nearest here. Her right foot you can see a discoloration and uneven texture of the flesh between the right and middle toe, I've been watching it, there was dried poop there that got a good soaking when I bathed her butt, and most came off easily but some was cemented on there and I didn't try to get it off in case that would injure her skin. I put ichthamol goop on it, then a few days later I saw fresh blood there. I cleaned it gently with the chlorhexidine cream and a swab, then put more ichthamol tar on it. That was several days ago. It seems to not be worsening, it may be clearer, but it's not looking right. Should I just wait and keep watching, or is there something I should be doing?

I think Betadine gel works better for foot problems.

 

[Shadrach]

I hate to break it to you Shad, but I think that one predates Covid.

Well, I'm not all that up to date with modern jargon....and a lot else now I come to think on it.

 

[Shadrach]

Good point. And given half the chance don't they also eat really hard things that are dangerous like nails and screws and such?

They do. Pieces of granite come to mind.
It just seems that when it comes to nuts the lot here prefer wallnuts to any other I've given them. I have always put it down to two things; one, they find them on the ground naturally so they're not a strange food and the softness of them.
Maybe they just taste better.

 

[Blazinga]

Anyone doing the Easter Hatch A Long? I am.

Not easter, but the second hatch for me is due the 22nd

 

[Shadrach]

Oh then maybe it is OK. I must look at my tube and see what it says. I always learned to use it only for drawing pus but if it says it is OK for cuts and abrasions then I am probably wrong!

You are right imo. I wouldn't put any type of drawing ointment on that type of injury.

 

[Shadrach]

Anyone doing the Easter Hatch A Long? I am.

I'll ask the hens.

 

[Shadrach]

May I join in the conversation? I know I post for FBF and Mugshot Monday, but I haven't really participated fully. I do really enjoy this thread

I think I'm safe in writing, of course you may.

 

[Shadrach]

Yesterday was a bit grim. Today was better. Fat Bird had the last of her injections today. It's Metacam pills from now on.
She's still got crop problems. I didn't get to do enough massage today and I cant find my flexible tube for tube feeding.
However, she's still eating and what's more she stayed with the tribe all day apart from a fifteen minute bath and she managed to negotiate the bank you can see her on in one of the pictures. She went off to roost with everyone and got up on the high perch.
Not entirely sure what to do about the crop problem. She's been eating a lot of grit and a bit less grass. She's going back to see Gloria on Wednesday. I'll carry on with what I'm doing until then.

She and Moon have been pretty friendly over the past few days. It's interesting because Moon is almost as easy for me to pick up as Fat Bird is. I've watched Moon watching me treating Fat Bird.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

My tube doesn’t say anything really but does say don’t use on deep cuts which is obviously not the case so I think you are OK. Sorry for worrying you.

No apologies necessary here RC! I asked for thoughts, advice & and any tips that anyone had to offer. Plus I'd never used it before. I was trying to think of something thick enough to stay on. It actually thinned with her body heat, so the chlorhexidine cream alone might have been just as good in that respect. Unless she didn't like the taste of the ichthamol, keeping her from picking it off which would be good.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

May I join in the conversation? I know I post for FBF and Mugshot Monday, but I haven't really participated fully. I do really enjoy this thread

Well Bob would say: Tell us about your flock (tribe)!