Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

Assorted fluff (Silver is usually a cooperative candidate)

Babes move too much for really good shots yet...

 

[rural mouse]

This mornings hurried breakfast fluff Pippa, Whiskey, and Horus

Whiskey and Nellie

Ember

PITA

Whiskey framed on a profile of Thing, Horus sneaking out of frame

Belladonna (I think)

Storm and Cuckoo

Belladonna fluff, Hector investigating, and the Littles, left to right: Whiskey, Ember, Horus, and Maizie

 

[RoyalChick]

For fluffy butt Friday I have Bella getting a bit of food just back from the vet.

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

Lucy and Ethel
Getting fluffy.

 

[BY Bob]

Thank you for this information, that was very clear.
I think I saw mentioned on a french poultry forum that chickens could be carriers, and that it would be recommended to have a closed flock in that case, some breeder said it had put them out of business.
I checked if Enrofloxacin is available here and it is. However you would need a vet prescription for which the vet would have to make an antibiogram, as it is on the watched list of antibiotics.

I'm not surprised that you would need a vet to get it. This then tracks back to the issue with getting quality vet care for chickens. To restrict without assuring that people who need can get access is ever the way of government agencies.

Government rant tax

 

[BY Bob]

Oh, so though it isn't a virus, it is somewhat like the chicken pox virus, then, where it can stay dormant and then re-emerge when ill or stressed? Great, I hate nasties like that. Talk about 'kicking you when you are down"

Yes, mycoplasma is a particularly insidious bacteria, not a virus. You cam only treat the outbreak you cannot eliminate its presence. It is one of the reasons I will suffer through 1 more week of quarantine with the Rascals.

 

[BY Bob]

Well, um, do you think you could help her out? It's like seeing toilet paper stuck to the back of a person's waist band ad not letting them know!

I can't get close enough to help her out. Sydney is a no touch chicken. I need one of her friends to do it.

 

[BY Bob]

Assorted fluff (Silver is usually a cooperative candidate) View attachment 3178141View attachment 3178142View attachment 3178143View attachment 3178144Babes move too much for really good shots yet...

That is a great assortment! Thanks!

 

[bgmathteach]

I'm not surprised that you would need a vet to get it. This then tracks back to the issue with getting quality vet care for chickens. To restrict without assuring that people who need can get access is ever the way of government agencies.

Government rant tax
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You must submit this for POW....the silhouetting is superb!! (The angle also makes her look like a giant!!! (but then, her personality is such, so it is fitting!

 

[BY Bob]

This mornings hurried breakfast fluffView attachment 3178152Pippa, Whiskey, and Horus

View attachment 3178153Whiskey and Nellie

View attachment 3178154Ember

View attachment 3178155PITA

View attachment 3178156Whiskey framed on a profile of Thing, Horus sneaking out of frame

View attachment 3178157Belladonna (I think)

View attachment 3178158Storm and Cuckoo

View attachment 3178159Belladonna fluff, Hector investigating, and the Littles, left to right: Whiskey, Ember, Horus, and Maizie

That is a lot of great bums. You have been saving up i think!