Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[bgmathteach]

I hope she doesn’t do what my hen Canna did, (come back with several chicks following behind her)

Well, that wouldn't be so terrible, would it?

I didn't really say that


I know, it is really too cold for her to be hatching & raising chicks this time of year....and poor featherless rooster & Jaffar would be worried sick the whole 3 weeks!

Hope you find her soon.

 

[featherhead007]

Or this one!

I just played that song to Jaffar, now he’s stuck on “The Carpenters” thanks a lot!

 

[featherhead007]

Well, that wouldn't be so terrible, would it?

I didn't really say that


I know, it is really too cold for her to be hatching & raising chicks this time of year....and poor featherless rooster & Jaffar would be worried sick the whole 3 weeks!

Hope you find her soon.

She’s nesting somewhere, but she’s doing okay. She looked healthy this morning.

 

[bgmathteach]

Jaffar has found Arizona safely nested on a clutch of eggs behind the tool shed . He called out, she came running! (Why can’t I do that?)

Yay!!!

Can you rig up some safe protection around her so she can hatch? If not, steal the eggs and destroy the nest so she hides a new nest somewhere else

 

[bgmathteach]

I am grateful to my hen, Ruth because she always is the first to try out a new nest box.
I think she gets irritated with all the nest box drama and switches to the new box, but unfortunately for her this means that the others eventually start using the box she pioneered and then she is embroiled in drama again!
Ruth:
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She is svelte, but still has that no-nonsense matronly look about her!

 

[featherhead007]

Alex, I popped back in after my cheesecake and oxialis post specifically to look for an Arizona update. I’m glad she is safe!

She’s safe, but hiding again somewhere (obliviously safe, because I don’t know where her hideout is) ps, I have two pumpkin pies in the oven for the church on Sunday feast. (Yes I can cook somewhat)

 

[micstrachan]

I just played that song to Jaffar, now he’s stuck on “The Carpenters” thanks a lot!

It’s my pleasure!

 

[featherhead007]

Yay!!!

Can you rig up some safe protection around her so she can hatch? If not, steal the eggs and destroy the nest so she hides a new nest somewhere else

Finding her is the hardest part!

 

[featherhead007]

He a

It’s my pleasure!

c stopped and listened to the whole song. (A true hopeless romantic)

 

[MaryJanet]

Initial Necropsy Results are Back

It seems to have been a congenital defect. There was an abnormality in her brain/skull.

It does rule out trauma as the cause. The hemorrhage in the skin at the base of the skull is likely from her falling off the roost that night.

Here is the text of the initial report.

The most significant macroscopic findings in this chicken involved a suspect meningoencephalocele with adjacent subcutaneous hemorrhage, subcutaneous masses within the neck, and subjective thickening of the right sacral plexus. A meningoencephalocele is a congenital abnormality that occurs when there is improper formation/fusing of the bones of the calvarium and portions of the meninges and/or neuroparenchyma are external to the remaining bones. In this case, there was hemorrhage within the overlying subcutaneous tissue and at the base of the skull which may suggest trauma. While there was evidence of trauma in the head region, there were no obvious fractures of the bones indicating the brain exposure was a pre-existing condition and not secondary to trauma. In addition to this finding, there were masses within the subcutaneous tissue along the neck and subjective thickening of the right sacral plexus which may suggest this chicken had Marek’s disease.

My poor baby......
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That's very sad news.

But a relief for Mrs BYBob.