Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

I'm confused. Why would you treat a yeast infection by utilizing a product that actually contains yeast?

A 1981 study published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology examined the yogurts for the presence of yeasts.

Yogurts purchased from retail outlets were examined for the presence of yeasts by being plated onto oxytetracycline malt extract agar. Of the 128 samples examined, 45% exhibited yeast counts above 103 cells per g.

In the study, a total of 73 yeast strains were isolated and identified as belonging to the genera Torulopsis, Kluyveromyces, Saccharomyces, Candida, Rhodotorula, Pichia, Debaryomyces, and Sporobolomyces. Torulopsis candida and Kluyveromyces fragilis were the most frequently isolated species.

Torulopsis candida is now called Candida glabrata. C. glabrata is often the second or third most common cause of candidiasis after C. albicans.

I know that the use of yogurts to treat yeast infections is considered a homeopathic treatment.

Based upon the logic of possibly feeding the infection more yeast, I would advise against it myself.

What you are trying to do with yogurt is to introduce Lactobaccillus bacteria to replace the yeast with nonpathogenic bacteria. This could more safely be accomplished by adding a probiotic to their water. Nearly all of them include lactobacillus as their primary bacteria.

Bacteria tax
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Agree the main purpose is to get lactobacillus in there and you can achieve that with supplements if you have them.
Studies in women with vaginal thrush however support yoghurt both as a solo treatment or together with an antifungal.
Not all yeast is bad - at least in people the gut microbiome contains yeast. The issue in sour crop is one variety of yeast has taken over and gone wild.
My thinking is to try and help recreate a mixed microbiome/mycobiome with a healthy mix of bacteria and yeasts.
Give that Candida albicans some competition!

 

[RoyalChick]

Agree the main purpose is to get lactobacillus in there and you can achieve that with supplements if you have them.
Studies in women with vaginal thrush however support yoghurt both as a solo treatment or together with an antifungal.
Not all yeast is bad - at least in people the gut microbiome contains yeast. The issue in sour crop is one variety of yeast has taken over and gone wild.
My thinking is to try and help recreate a mixed microbiome/mycobiome with a healthy mix of bacteria and yeasts.
Give that Candida albicans some competition!

Mycobiome tax.

 

[Ponypoor]

Can you peg some chicken wire over the area they are digging in around the tree...that will at least help stop damaging the roots and removing the soil. Pines are fairly shallow rooted....you don't want it undermined too much as it WILL fall

Last year my one Jack Pine which admittedly was dead and rotted was torn out of the ground in a thunderstorm.

I think I will put some cobble (larger round stones) around the base of the trees, its only those Jack Pines that are at risk, the Blue Spruce is fine.

I was looking at those trees last night, while the gals were digging around I think the trees are ok for now...

 

[Marie2020]

Agatha has completely gone back too what she was and her comb has paled
I don't think she will survive now . I had her wrapped in a sheet and gave her a cuddle she fell asleep in my arms. My sweet little darling is leaving me soon I just know it

 

[Ponypoor]

Poor Dakota, out in the yard all alone. The others chase her away and now she doesn’t have Arizona to hang out with. Jaffar tries to give her comfort, but he’s also busy with the other ladies. I can tell that she feels lonely. I feel that way myself sometimes.

Sorry to hear that Alex, sure hope your group settles and adjusts, I will check in later on, must get cracking need to get chores done.

 

[BY Bob]

Lulu went on an adventure
imagine my surprise when glancing out of the kitchen window to see a small pale colored bird in the driveway.
Looks like a chicken I thought.
Hold on, it is a chicken. It is Lulu.
I have no idea what sequence of events led Lulu to be free range outside the electric fence, all on her own, and looking like a fox appetizer.
In good news she seems like the first of mine to be partial to dandelion leaves!

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That one bears watching. I would guess that she is a flier.

 

[ManueB]

I keep them away. I would not trust mine with a chick. Once they are larger there is no problem but chicks are too much like baby song birds for me to be comfortable.

Things have completely gone off the plan regarding a cautious introduction with the cats behind the mesh. As I wrote elsewhere, Chipie the mama has always been semi feral and since a few days she and her chicks have found numerous ways to escape from the pen they were kept in.
Basically they are outside almost all day now and all I can do is try to stay near by and check on them as often as possible. Luckily the cats sleep during the day, as we're having a heat wave.

Yesterday the little family had a big scare when one of the chicks couldn't follow the others and find the way back in and everyone got in a panic.
Half an hour after that happened, I caught Chipie in the pen showing them how to climb on a 60 cm trunk, and jump / fly off.
Then when it was time to sleep she tried to take them inside the coop and up the ladder to the smallest roost (which is 1m40 / 4 ft 5 high). Of course this didn't work.
I'm thinking either she's training them for the Olympics, either she wants to get rid of them. They are 8 days old.

 

[BY Bob]

Maggie just produced this!
@MaryJanet - maybe not perfect, but pretty damn good!
She still had watery diarrhea this morning, but I will take this as a good sign.

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Woohoo!

 

[BY Bob]

She had absolutely no meat on her, the vet thought she may not have developed an immunity to coccidia and wasn’t absorbing nutrients. She seemed to be improving for a few days, then became very weak in the legs. I buried her with a piece of cheese to pay the ferryman, and a bit of rockmelon to snack on for the journey.

 

[BY Bob]

...I am adding the hairball my cat so loving horked up on the mat by the garage door that I stepped in the other morning at 5am...

Oh I hate that! Super gross!