Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[micstrachan]

Sooner is always better than later! I know your healthcare system is quite different from ours, and it can be difficult to capture a cardiac event on a monitor. Sometimes calling for an Ambulance during the event and getting straight to hospital and on a ECG is the best way to get the Dr’s the information they need. Every 3 years or so they send DH home with a Holter monitor for three or four days and even if he has been having regular events, I swear there must be something in the glue for the sensor pads that prevents them, it never picks one up.

There was a point before his medications were switched up that he was in an ambulance monthly while we were in the city and I could literally say “Superventricular Tachycardia with arrhythmia and Atrial Fibrillation” perfectly clearly, even after waking up at 3am and having drank far more than was healthy for me. I also annoyed a lot of 911 dispatchers as well, by refusing to stay with the patient, or try to take his pulse for them and concentrating instead on packing the hospital bag, getting him into reasonable clothing, and securing our pets for the arrival of emergency personnel. It sucks being stuck in emergency without a Book for six hours, or trying to get home with no wallet or shoes in your pajamas!

Our second Date was actually at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. We got off work at about the same time in the evening, and were heading out for dinner, Andrew started to have an event on the bus in from West Van, so we hopped off once we got over the bridge into downtown and walked the 5 blocks or so up to the hospital. I’ve never seen anyone get through Triage so quickly! Within ten minutes of our arrival they were zapping him back to normal. Just my luck, I find a great guy and he doesn’t even make it to the third date? And that more or less set the tone for future emergency situations with us. He hates hospitals.

Oh my. You guys have been through a lot!

 

[featherhead007]

Have you ever considered assign each group their own day. That way everyone gets their fair share of your time.

Somehow, I do get time with each and every one (12 count) I need to have tame lap chickens.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Little miss Squirrel is really turning into a lovely pullet. But then how could she not considering who her parents are. Now that she's been away from momma hen for a while now I also see her parents personalities coming out. It only took me a week to tame her and now she is my buddy. She is always underfoot when out doing chores and hops up to sit on laps when you take a break. I really lucked out and got the best of both Drummie and Butter in this girl.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I cannot wait to introduce my ladies! They are quite the celebrities amongst my friends and coworkers.
I have a barred rock, 2 prairie bluebell eggers and 2 starlight green eggers in my original flock. I sadly lost one of my barred rocks a few months ago. A total shock. She was absolutely fine and I came home from work to her dead in the coop. It appears it was some sort of sudden death thing. We were pretty devastated. I will say that my significant other, who was dead set against chickens in the first place, took it the hardest. He ha became quite the ultimate chicken tender!

My littles are 1 blue rock, 1 GL wynodette, 1 lavendar orpington, 1 barnevelder, and 3 easter egger's.
I belong to a few facebook groups and it seems like the DNA testing is quite popular.
Yes!! it is very close to Malone, I am about 7 miles from Malone. I live on 11B which brings me right into Potsdam. We do have real winters and I hate it, even more so now that i miss spending my evenings with my flock. Plan on relocating in a few years when my youngest graduates.

Welcome! You are smack dab in lake effect snow country up there!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

It will not hurt them and I would do it. They are undergoing a lot of stress and making sure there is nothing going on is worthwhile in my opinion. It almost always too late to save chicks once you notice something is wrong.

I do think @ILoveDaffy was able to save theirs earlier this year but it is very touch and go. I would treat when they arrived and provide medicated feed. It's just too easy to lose them.

Now I'm sure that someone will disagree with me and that's OK. I don't normally recommend treating without testing but in this case I believe the good outweighs any long term effect.

X2 - plus just making the point it's a preventive level / assistance dose, not a a treatment dose. It inhibits B vitamin (12?) availability to any cocci so they starve. But it's supposed to be not enough to hurt the growth of chicks. I think I started it after either a three -four days or a week for my day-old chicks.

 

[BY Bob]

Ouch that foot looks painful. I thought it was bad enough when Dirt stepped on me and decided to just stand stock still with what felt like his entire weight on my foot. Tried shoving him off, didn't work, had to elbow the hard head in the ribs to get him to get off.

I had an ecscaped cow do that to me once. It was out along the main road when my brother and I intercepted it. We knew the farm it belonged to, in fact, we knew the cow.

Once it stepped on my foot I could not get it to move. I sent my brother to go get the farmer. Thankfully the farmer showed up with some food to motivate the cow to move. That was painful. A sneaker does not provide a lot of protection.

 

[BY Bob]

Sooner is always better than later! I know your healthcare system is quite different from ours, and it can be difficult to capture a cardiac event on a monitor. Sometimes calling for an Ambulance during the event and getting straight to hospital and on a ECG is the best way to get the Dr’s the information they need. Every 3 years or so they send DH home with a Holter monitor for three or four days and even if he has been having regular events, I swear there must be something in the glue for the sensor pads that prevents them, it never picks one up.

There was a point before his medications were switched up that he was in an ambulance monthly while we were in the city and I could literally say “Superventricular Tachycardia with arrhythmia and Atrial Fibrillation” perfectly clearly, even after waking up at 3am and having drank far more than was healthy for me. I also annoyed a lot of 911 dispatchers as well, by refusing to stay with the patient, or try to take his pulse for them and concentrating instead on packing the hospital bag, getting him into reasonable clothing, and securing our pets for the arrival of emergency personnel. It sucks being stuck in emergency without a Book for six hours, or trying to get home with no wallet or shoes in your pajamas!

Our second Date was actually at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. We got off work at about the same time in the evening, and were heading out for dinner, Andrew started to have an event on the bus in from West Van, so we hopped off once we got over the bridge into downtown and walked the 5 blocks or so up to the hospital. I’ve never seen anyone get through Triage so quickly! Within ten minutes of our arrival they were zapping him back to normal. Just my luck, I find a great guy and he doesn’t even make it to the third date? And that more or less set the tone for future emergency situations with us. He hates hospitals.

That story is right up there with the story of my honeymoon. There is no way you leave them once you go through that together.

 

[Ribh]

Little miss Squirrel is really turning into a lovely pullet. But then how could she not considering who her parents are. Now that she's been away from momma hen for a while now I also see her parents personalities coming out. It only took me a week to tame her and now she is my buddy. She is always underfoot when out doing chores and hops up to sit on laps when you take a break. I really lucked out and got the best of both Drummie and Butter in this girl.
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She is beautiful!

 

[BY Bob]

It still bothers me, especially when there’s no clear evidence as to what happened. It helps he was destined for the freezer anyway, so I already had a level of detachment. Nothing, no feathers, no signs of a struggle, just gone. I am also quite close to turning the whole lot of meaties out and free ranging them in the border of the woods, so I’m having some second thoughts on that now

I would have second thoughts too. The border of the woods seems a little more dangerous as well. I know you will choose what is best.

 

[BY Bob]

Little miss Squirrel is really turning into a lovely pullet. But then how could she not considering who her parents are. Now that she's been away from momma hen for a while now I also see her parents personalities coming out. It only took me a week to tame her and now she is my buddy. She is always underfoot when out doing chores and hops up to sit on laps when you take a break. I really lucked out and got the best of both Drummie and Butter in this girl.
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She is downright beautiful. What a lovely hen.