Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[MaryJanet]

Well, then thank you, Mary Janet, you helped tremendously with your comment. Corid is the treatment for Coccidiosis in USA.

I have never seen my chickens drink out of the puddles, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. Could be that. We always have rain here, but this is the first year we've had actually puddles in the chicken run. I do keep 5 fresh waterers out there that are cleaned every day. And they are up on bricks, so they don't get contaminated by anything other than their beaks.

I'm pretty sure everyone provides clean water and every chicken sneaks a mouthful of dirty water when our backs are turned. Or right in front of us like Janet and Peggy do.

 

[RoyalChick]

From memory, spanish flu was infectious when people didn't have symptoms. And bubonic plague was spread by fleas who got it from rats.

Life was different back then too. Even high status people would've been bitten by fleas regularly. Certainly poor people were bitten by fleas all the time, and most folks were very poor.

And no one knew how flu spreads, but we do now.

Even reading this is making me itch!

 

[MaryJanet]

Even reading this is making me itch!

Yeh, it's a nasty thought in today's world! Imagine it being so ordinary..

 

[BY Bob]

Well, then thank you, Mary Janet, you helped tremendously with your comment. Corid is the treatment for Coccidiosis in USA.

I have never seen my chickens drink out of the puddles, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. Could be that. We always have rain here, but this is the first year we've had actually puddles in the chicken run. I do keep 5 fresh waterers out there that are cleaned every day. And they are up on bricks, so they don't get contaminated by anything other than their beaks.

They will drink dirty nasty mud puddle water over anything else.

 

[BY Bob]

I'm pretty sure everyone provides clean water and every chicken sneaks a mouthful of dirty water when our backs are turned. Or right in front of us like Janet and Peggy do.

Phyllis was standing in a puddle with dirty feet drinking the water from said puddle yesterday. Next to the puddle was one of their watering containers. Dirty trumps all else.

We call it "wild water".

 

[MaryJanet]

"mmmm this horrid water is delicious!"

Two days later...

"I got tummy ache "

 

[BY Bob]

Tonight's Micro Lesson

Let's start with the bubonic plague. Plague is caused by a bacteria, Yersinia Pestis. Yersinia is endemic to rat populations in cetain parts of the world. Everyone who said that the transmission was via a flea bite is correct. The flea is called a "vector" in microbiological terms.
Transmission of Yersinia Pestis to humans via flea bite causes the bubonic plague. Certain white blood cells ingest the bacteria but cannot kill it. Those white blood cells take the bacteria into the lymphatic system where the bacteria infects the lymph nodes creating the telltale black buboes, hence the name bubonic plague and black plague.

Bubonic plague is fatal in 50 to 60% of untreated cases.

Within hours of the initial flea bite, the bacteria is in the blood stream moving to organs in the body. Starting with the liver spleen, and lungs. It is this transfer of the infectious locus to the lungs that ramps things up.

Yersinia Pestis also causes Pneumonic Plague. Once the bacteria reaches the lungs the patient will develop develops a severe bacterial pneumonia, exhaling large numbers of viable organisms into the air during coughing fits. This enables transmission from human to human without the need for rats and fleas.

Most significantly, the Pneumonic Plague is 100% fatal without treatment. This is how a simple flea bite could wipe out 1/3 of the earth's population. There were not enough rats and fleas on the planet to acheive that scale of death.

So endeth the lesson. Tomorrow night the Spanish flu.

 

[BY Bob]

Sidney was into Things today

It started with the shed. I opened the doors to the shed to get out cushions for the chaise lounge for Mrs. BY Bob and Sydney climbed right in. Before I knew it she was in the straw package making a nest. This barred rock is into alternate nests.

And her nest

Then she came in the house and flew onto the dining table. Not since Lilly's Thanksgiving has a chicken been on the dining room table!

Clearly I am losing all control over the flock and my house. The hens are ruling the roost.

 

[MaryJanet]

Tonight's Micro Lesson

Let's start with the bubonic plague. Plague is caused by a bacteria, Yersinia Pestis. Yersinia is endemic to rat populations in cetain parts of the world. Everyone who said that the transmission was via a flea bite is correct. The flea is called a "vector" in microbiological terms.
Transmission of Yersinia Pestis to humans via flea bite causes the bubonic plague. Certain white blood cells ingest the bacteria but cannot kill it. Those white blood cells take the bacteria into the lymphatic system where the bacteria infects the lymph nodes creating the telltale black buboes, hence the name bubonic plague and black plague.

Bubonic plague is fatal in 50 to 60% of untreated cases.

Within hours of the initial flea bite, the bacteria is in the blood stream moving to organs in the body. Starting with the liver spleen, and lungs. It is this transfer of the infectious locus to the lungs that ramps things up.

Yersinia Pestis also causes Pneumonic Plague. Once the bacteria reaches the lungs the patient will develop develops a severe bacterial pneumonia, exhaling large numbers of viable organisms into the air during coughing fits. This enables transmission from human to human without the need for rats and fleas.

Most significantly, the Pneumonic Plague is 100% fatal without treatment. This is how a simple flea bite could wipe out 1/3 of the earth's population. There were not enough rats and fleas on the planet to acheive that scale of death.

So endeth the lesson. Tomorrow night the Spanish flu.

I did not know about pneumonic plague!

 

[WhoDatChick]

Yesterday was gals in the nests and today is eggs in the nests! And I just can’t help taking pics of my eggs.. I just love them so much! 13 eggs today