Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Blazinga]

Earlier this week I discovered this fun game of running your chicken photos through Google lens and seeing how accurate it guesses. A few pictures believed Platina to be a quail.

 

[BY Bob]

Earlier this week I discovered this fun game of running your chicken photos through Google lens and seeing how accurate it guesses. A few pictures believed Platina to be a quail.

That sounds like fun

 

[Shadrach]

Coxiod, just as a deterrent

Nope. Sorry to keep on about this but it's important. Coxoid is not to be used as a deterrent. It's to be used if a chicken has coccidiosis.

 

[Shadrach]

Are those fruit trees in the allotment?

That thin looking tree in the front of the picture is an apple tree. There are three more all in need to some attention.

 

[Marie2020]

Nope. Sorry to keep on about this but it's important. Coxoid is not to be used as a deterrent. It's to be used if a chicken has coccidiosis.

I know, this is something that I'm aware of.

It will not be used unless I'm certain this is what they have, I've seen a little red in the poop and yes, it could be food but if it continues then I will have to find a way to get it tested

I've written too the link on vets in my nearest location too ask for lab testing but again for my 5th approach in three separate areas for a veterinarians advice I recieved no response.

 

[Marie2020]

That seems like an odd problem considering salt is not good for you.

A certain amount of salt is good for all of us and varying salt .

 

[Marie2020]

Earlier this week I discovered this fun game of running your chicken photos through Google lens and seeing how accurate it guesses. A few pictures believed Platina to be a quail.

Good old Google

 

[micstrachan]

So many hugs Michelle.

Speaking of sunflower seeds, I have had the hardest time finding raw unsalted seeds lately

I order them online. I used to get them at Whole Foods, but there is no more bin food since COVID.

 

[micstrachan]

Both of these were on the watch list. The Red Sex Link has improved a lot and I hope now all she has to deal with is the moulting. She got a course of Flubenvet for the worms and a course of Coxiod because it was either or her lookalike that was showing blood spots in their poop. I could only narrow it down to the pair of them so they both got treated.
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This is Copy. She had crop problems, possibly because of worms. We've dealt with the worms and she seems more comfortable but her crop is still not quite right. From what I can feel there is a lump that isn't breaking up and I think it ends up blocking the exit from her crop when her crop is full, but not all the time. My feeling is that whatever it is may float when she drinks a lot which she has been. She's not quite comfortable with being caught in daylight which is good but inconvenient. I can get her at night, which I have but the has feathers growing right around the crop so massage isn't really an option.
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Shad, can you gently take Copy off the roost with a towel and pull her aside to offer her coconut oil or mash with coconut oil mixed in? Maybe a little lubrication can help until you are able to work her crop.

 

[micstrachan]

I have no idea what they cost, but I can’t even imagine how it works. Where does it retract to? Is it like pocket doors? If so, that would need a lot of space!

I always assumed they rolled up into an underground concrete trench or something.