Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[micstrachan]

A methodical search is in order here Bob. As you write, the search area isn't very big. Have you checked in the pool?

OMG, this made my heart stop.

 

[micstrachan]

FOUND HER!

She was deep inside the brush pile. My gosh. I wonder if she has a nest in there.

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YAY!!! What a relief!

 

[micstrachan]

I was almost in tears. I could not take another loss right now. She has scared me to the core.

I can imagine. So scary!

 

[micstrachan]

About mid day I cut Fat Birds birthday steak into bite sized chunks, fairly big given it's Fat Bird, cut the crust off the Pizza I was having for lunch and was about to go looking for her when she wandered in and headed for the nest box. I was a bit surprised. She does inspect the eggs in the house nest box from time to time, but she doesn't usually get in it and sit. I thought that maybe she was considering laying an egg given it was her birthday and all that.
She didn't lay an egg and sat for just long enough to send Hurry into a fit who was desperate to lay her egg. One doesn't share a nest box with Fat Bird.
Fat Bird is now the second longest chicken life here. She'll need another year to beat Blue Spot.
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I adore her!

 

[micstrachan]

Sydney and Sansa eat from my Hand

I forgot I took video of them eating out of my hand.

So sweet!

 

[LozzyR]

That is the queen herself. Lilly. She still gets mad when she sees the littles.

I was going to ask who was kicking up a stink in the background!

 

[LozzyR]

So Chickie went back to see Dr Nikki today. She’s still not right and I didn’t want to spend over $300.00 on a hormone implant just to have her die a couple of months later. She seems happy in herself but she’s very light and her poos are all watery. She had a great morning today, dug a big hole for a dirt bath, having a good scratch in the garden, getting excited over food, I’m starting to feel like I’ve got Munchausens by Proxy! Then she does this splatty poo just before we leave, so I took a photo. Dr Nikki said “Ugh, that doesn’t look right!”, and takes an x-ray. She said it looked clear and gave her a little enema but didn’t see any egg products. She’s sending the x-rays off to the avian specialists in case they have any more suggestions. She weighed her and she’s 1.5kg when she should be at least 2kg. She said she’s not sure why she has diarrhoea (I agree @Shadrach , I also like my vet to be honest!) but has prescribed some anti-microbials for it, which I will pick up tomorrow. If we can knock the diarrhoea on it’s head, hopefully she will be ok. She thinks she’s been snoozing a lot because she’s feeling weak. Cross fingers we can fix this!

“Get $5 chooks” my mother-in-law said! “They’ll live for years and give you lots of eggs” she said! Pretty sure my $5 chicken has cost over $500, not game to add it all up...

 

[Kris5902]

So Chickie went back to see Dr Nikki today. She’s still not right and I didn’t want to spend over $300.00 on a hormone implant just to have her die a couple of months later. She seems happy in herself but she’s very light and her poos are all watery. She had a great morning today, dug a big hole for a dirt bath, having a good scratch in the garden, getting excited over food, I’m starting to feel like I’ve got Munchausens by Proxy! Then she does this splatty poo just before we leave, so I took a photo. Dr Nikki said “Ugh, that doesn’t look right!”, and takes an x-ray. She said it looked clear and gave her a little enema but didn’t see any egg products. She’s sending the x-rays off to the avian specialists in case they have any more suggestions. She weighed her and she’s 1.5kg when she should be at least 2kg. She said she’s not sure why she has diarrhoea (I agree @Shadrach , I also like my vet to be honest!) but has prescribed some anti-microbials for it, which I will pick up tomorrow. If we can knock the diarrhoea on it’s head, hopefully she will be ok. She thinks she’s been snoozing a lot because she’s feeling weak. Cross fingers we can fix this!

“Get $5 chooks” my mother-in-law said! “They’ll live for years and give you lots of eggs” she said! Pretty sure my $5 chicken has cost over $500, not game to add it all up...

 

[LozzyR]

Thanks Kris. She’s a ravenous little thing so the diarrhoea is obviously preventing her from absorbing nutrients.

 

[MaryJanet]

Thanks Kris. She’s a ravenous little thing so the diarrhoea is obviously preventing her from absorbing nutrients.

At least she's eating well. She may be crook but if she were in pain, I think her eating would decline.