@micstrachan How are you feeling today? Hope you slept well 😴last night, and are feeling a bit better!:fl

@RebeccaBoyd Is Daisy having difficulty breathing? Can pain be managed with something to give you a bit of time to figure out what to do (with consults from the vet), and her better quality of life until you figure out what it is...and if she can be saved or not?:hugs:hugs:hugs
Right now, she is not having difficulty breathing thankfully. I watched her yesterday as we spent the day out mowing and I took over stall duty. I did not have to do stalls, but I needed a break of hard physical labor to get rid of frustration and so whether they needed it or not they got gutted. While I was out there Daisy stayed fairly close. She had a better apatite and was underfoot trying to search for any goodies the horses had dropped. She felt like digging in the manure pile as well and had several dust bathing sessions. I did catch her i think 3 times standing in a position with her tail hanging down that suggested she was uncomfortable but it did not last long. My vet has property he bought a mile up the road that he is logging and getting ready to put cattle on so he is all the time up in our holler. I made a point to watch for him yesterday afternoon and stopped him on his way out to have him feel the mass. He did and while he said he is no chicken expert in his opinion it is not a abscess but a tumor. We discussed the antibiotics I had on hand and does not think they will have any affect. I can give her baby aspirin for pain if I feel it is needed. He pretty much confirmed what I suspect and will do. Keep a eye on her, the minute she takes a downward turn end her suffering. I may have her another day or week or maybe longer but I doubt much longer. When the time comes she is being buried in a spot of honor under our River Birch tree beside my old golden retriever and 2 previous house bunnies.
 
Right now, she is not having difficulty breathing thankfully. I watched her yesterday as we spent the day out mowing and I took over stall duty. I did not have to do stalls, but I needed a break of hard physical labor to get rid of frustration and so whether they needed it or not they got gutted. While I was out there Daisy stayed fairly close. She had a better apatite and was underfoot trying to search for any goodies the horses had dropped. She felt like digging in the manure pile as well and had several dust bathing sessions. I did catch her i think 3 times standing in a position with her tail hanging down that suggested she was uncomfortable but it did not last long. My vet has property he bought a mile up the road that he is logging and getting ready to put cattle on so he is all the time up in our holler. I made a point to watch for him yesterday afternoon and stopped him on his way out to have him feel the mass. He did and while he said he is no chicken expert in his opinion it is not a abscess but a tumor. We discussed the antibiotics I had on hand and does not think they will have any affect. I can give her baby aspirin for pain if I feel it is needed. He pretty much confirmed what I suspect and will do. Keep a eye on her, the minute she takes a downward turn end her suffering. I may have her another day or week or maybe longer but I doubt much longer. When the time comes she is being buried in a spot of honor under our River Birch tree beside my old golden retriever and 2 previous house bunnies.
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Hello to all followers of this huge wonderful thread and to @BY Bob who kindly invited me to participate.
I have something to confess...I've been silently lurking here for a while. I feel kind of guilty as if I had been spying 😁. I'm probably not going to post very often as this thread is already very dense, and I already ramble far too much on Shadrach ex-batts thread, but I did want to introduce myself and my chickens. I will feel more at ease to like or comment on some of your posts.

I am a french city gal that moved in summer 2019 to the country, in my partner's family old house in the prealps. In January 2020, we got six three months old ex-battery hens as livestock. They quickly became our new friends. Meet Blanche, Nougat, Caramel, Cannelle, Brune and Vanille.
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Last December a farmer gave us a couple of bantams : a teenage awkward cockerel and a feral girl. Théo turned into a pretty bullying young rooster bigger than a bantam, Chipie stayed feral. Integration was a disaster but no one died and now they are more or less part of the flock.
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I must add that we got two sibling barn kittens, Hibou and Tila, in November 2020 to solve a mice problem.
A year went by and they had become my partner's spoilt children.
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Our next addition will be two ponies but we still have a bit of work to get our settings ready before that.
I've been way too long but at least I won't feel so creepy now when I read about all of you 😁. Have a nice Friday and week-end everyone.
 

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The difficult part to wrap my mind around is that she only just turned 2 in February. She is not a high production breed and she gets a tumor. I am going to try to focus that she has lived those 2 years happy, never cooped up and got to eat snakes and fish and whatever else she chose to her hearts content. She never chose to be a momma, she has always had more important things to do. She does have 2 granddaughters and a great-granddaughter in Lilly to leave behind thanks to other broody girls and the incubator. I will miss her terribly as of the 2 original marans hens she has been my steadfast friendliest hen.
 
Downside to having everyone sheltering from this unseasonably cold weather in the living room… constant chick cuddling … With how all over the place these genetics seem I don’t have any intentions of bringing these ones into the meat Hybrid breeding experiments, but it’s really hard not to pick them up and talk to them, pet them…
Chicks are irresistible. 🥰
 
Hello to all followers of this huge wonderful thread and to @BY Bob who kindly invited me to participate.
I have something to confess...I've been silently lurking here for a while. I feel kind of guilty as if I had been spying 😁. I'm probably not going to post very often as this thread is already very dense, and I already ramble far too much on Shadrach ex-batts thread, but I did want to introduce myself and my chickens. I will feel more at ease to like or comment on some of your posts.

I am a french city gal that moved in summer 2019 to the country, in my partner's family old house in the prealps. In January 2020, we got six three months old ex-battery hens as livestock. They quickly became our new friends. Meet Blanche, Nougat, Caramel, Cannelle, Brune and Vanille.
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Last December a farmer gave us a couple of bantams : a teenage awkward cockerel and a feral girl. Théo turned into a pretty bullying young rooster bigger than a bantam, Chipie stayed feral. Integration was a disaster but no one died and now they are more or less part of the flock.
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I must add that we got two sibling barn kittens, Hibou and Tila, in November 2020 to solve a mice problem.
A year went by and they had become my partner's spoilt children.
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Our next addition will be two ponies but we still have a bit of work to get our settings ready before that.
I've been way too long but at least I won't feel so creepy now when I read about all of you 😁. Have a nice Friday and week-end everyone.
So glad you joined your animals are adorable and your place is fantastic. Don't feel shy about posting - we are all very chatty and love to share pictures of our chickens and our cats!
But, as it is Friday it would be lovely if you could honor the tradition of this thread and post a picture of (at least) one of your chickens' fluffy butts - picture #2 cojld perhaps count as it has one hen showing a half-fluff to the camera!
 
Yes❤️❤️
But who is that fluffy black and white one?? And names please😁
Legertha and Sylvie did not make it. Legertha had a hole in her skull that did not close. One day her brain herniated and I found her lying dead in the coop.

Sylvie was attacked and killed by a Cooper's Hawk. I had numerous aborted hawk attacks this winter but was present enough to prevent any other actual injury.

Between October and April I lost 4 of my ladies. In addition to Sylvie and Legertha, Sansa and Lilly have passed away.

With Sansa I do not know what it was and the vet did not either. Something was very wrong with her. Her molt was a complete disaster as her feathers were essentially sticks with a little fuzz. I can only guess that something was very amiss and despite treatment by the vet I found her passed away in the run.

Lilly was very ill earlier this spring. I took her to the vet and we treated her with antibiotics and she perked and was herself again. While I was in Italy for my daughter's wedding a few weeks ago, Lilly passed away. She was dead under the coop.

In good news, the new lady is Betty. She is a frizzled Polish. She joined us in the winter.

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Fluffy Butt Friday 💖

To start we have a couple of fluffys to showcase

Truly... 😊
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And Missy (looking at squirrels)
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Hey you don't walk away, were you going??? Oh I know the nest box...
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Yep definitely broody... Curly
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Misty my fine feathered friend
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Buttercup thinks she also would like to be broody 😲
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And finish off with my pretty Plum tree - hoping for lots of plums 🤗
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Happy Friday everyone!
 
@micstrachan How are you feeling today? Hope you slept well 😴last night, and are feeling a bit better!:fl

@RebeccaBoyd Is Daisy having difficulty breathing? Can pain be managed with something to give you a bit of time to figure out what to do (with consults from the vet), and her better quality of life until you figure out what it is...and if she can be saved or not?:hugs:hugs:hugs
You are such a kind person to check in. I’m slowly getting better and have even had a little energy to do some tree work! Last night after work, I dropped a few hundred pounds of tree branches. The live oak branches are so heavy, I take them down in pieces so I don’t get hurt or wreck something. My powered pole saw isn’t long enough to reach the upper branches, so I also got a manual pole saw. Two Red Shouldered Hawks came screaming over the yard, so I jumped down to alert and protect tge chickens. This is how it looked when I dropped everything.
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