Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[LozzyR]

Can you believe that I built this whole coop from a broken down shack, and leftover construction materials? (People were just throwing the stuff out)
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I love it! Creative and repurposing.

 

[BY Bob]

Fudge's crop was empty again this morning and she tried to avoid me this morning when I went to take her off the roost bar. She must be feeling better.
Two others in Tribe 1 do have worms I suspect so I'll be worming them all this week.
Two more days of Flubenvet and coccivex for Fudge and her treatment is finished. I will probably continue the crop massage and yogurt for a few more days after.
Between Fudge and Mel I've had less time to keep up with the others.
I got hold of Cillin this afternoon. He's so good. He came all the way up the South bank when I called for him.
The Stckholm Hoof Tar has as usual done a good job on sealing his broken spur. It now needs reshaping. I took the ragged bits off when I intitially treated him but he now has a flat end.
Locks legs have improved and I got around to giving her legs a coat of coconut oil this evening. This is something I would like to do daily for all the chickens that are prone to Scaly Leg Mite. It's a big undertaking though. Just sorting Fudge out takes at least an hour each morning.
Tap has decided she's beinng left out of the moulting club and decided she would have a go. It's far too late in the year and she's been looking a bit cold and wretched.
Notch as cut his leg high up on his hock and left a worring trail of blood leading into the bamboo which I discovered.It's not serious but it needed attending to.

A while ago I put up a stocknet fence attatched to the post and rail fence at the back of the vegetable garden. There was a chicken wire fence attatched before that. No it didn't keep the chickens out but it did keep most of everything else out. The stocknet was a further improvement being a lot stronger.
Over the weekend those in the main house deceided to take the stocknet down. Apparently it didn't look very nice.
Last night the wild boar got into the vegetable garden and tore the place apart. What they didn't dig up, they flattened.
I smiled and walked away. Some people just do not learn. No, I won't be repairing the fence.

Glad to hear that Fudge is looking up. In fact, knock on wood, it seems like overall your flock is doing pretty well right now.

 

[goldenfingers]

I went to see the Witch yesterday about Fudge. I explained my options naming all the chemicals. She wasn't impressed. Definitely a big NO to the acidified cooper sulphate. Not over keen on the anto yeast products either.
She told me to go back in an hour or so and she would make something up for me.
I was looking for advice tbh more than anything else. My view is, crop problems are best sorted as quickly as possible. I've been lucky in that I was on it very early.
One of the benefits of checking the tribes on a regular basis, not just when things have gone wrong.
I came back with a small bottle of liquid. The liquid comprised, garlic, thyme, a root extract I don't know the name of, liqorice root and lemon juice.
Fudge has been improving but she's been losing weight. Not a lot but she doesn't carry a lot anyway.
I'm going to write up the treatment she's had in case it helps someone else. But, my deciding line between sick and going downhill and sick but recovering is based on these things.
Are they eating?
Fudge wasn't eating really.
Are they grooming.
Fudge wasn't doing that either.
Posture.
Fudge's posture was not that of a fit and interested chicken. Head drawn in, seperate from the tribe, sitting too much and only really becoming alert when approached.
Fudge did eat a bit before going to roost. Her crop was about half full and she was huddled up next to Fat Bird when I first checked after roost time.

At 1,30 am I woke up and decided I would give Fudge the witches brew. It had to be warm, temeperature similar to what a lamb takes milk at. I've done a lot of that.
I took Fudge off her perch and tube fed the brew into her and put her back with her tribe.
I was a bit apprehensive when I opened Tribe 1 up this morning. The first thing I did was grab Fudge and feel her crop. It was completely empty. I mean so empty I could sqeeze it gently between my thumb and forefinger and not have to adjust the gap from the top to the bottom of the crop.
There was a really stinky pile of blackish runny poop below where she perched.
Once I had her in the house she was obviously hungry and even after I had fed her 10cl of live yogurt with the coccivex and Flubenvet in she set about the commercial feed.
She's been a different hen today. Active, interested, in with the tribe and letting the juniors know she's still with us.
This was the poop she did before the yogurt and feeding.
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It's very runny but bits free and the urates are about right. The blackish liquid looks much like what went into her earlier.

It's not over yet. I still don't know what caused the slow/sour crop although I'm guessing all the stuff she ate when moulting eventually clogged her up.
She may have has worms. She may have had a bout of coccidiosis.
That's Fudge by the maternity unit. So good to see her foraging.
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This is Fudge with her daughter Tackle eating before going to roost.
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Viva la bruja!

 

[Ribh]

This morning’s carry-on

I didn’t get anything done for about 20 minutes this morning; I was in and out of the house like a yo-yo!

Three nesting-boxes, one favourite. At least your girls will share, @Ribh!

Lavender wouldn't ~ but that's sorta understandable given her size. Pretty much everyone else will with @ least someone but they can be picky about who they share with.

 

[Shadrach]

Viva la bruja!

More viva la Feitico.
It is unfortunate that the word witch is associated with harm these days.

 

[Ribh]

More viva la Feitico.
It is unfortunate that the word witch is associated with harm these days.

Context is everything. From the context I always assumed you meant it in the sense of *wise woman* ~ but then etymology isn't taught either these days. We are seeing the dumbing down of the nations.

 

[Shadrach]

Context is everything. From the context I always assumed you meant it in the sense of *wise woman* ~ but then etymology isn't taught either these days. We are seeing the dumbing down of the nations.

It's interesting that the Catalan usage of the word witch by the older generation is still likely to be understood as herbalist while in Spain, where they were very kken on hunting and burning them for some time the term witch is always used as a description of someone intent on harm.
The portugese word Feitico is much more neutral for some unknown reason.

 

[MaryJanet]

Context is everything. From the context I always assumed you meant it in the sense of *wise woman* ~ but then etymology isn't taught either these days. We are seeing the dumbing down of the nations.

Me too. I read it in a very positive way. It carries dignity.

 

[Ribh]

It's interesting that the Catalan usage of the word witch by the older generation is still likely to be understood as herbalist while in Spain, where they were very kken on hunting and burning them for some time the term witch is always used as a description of someone intent on harm.
The portugese word Feitico is much more neutral for some unknown reason.

Ok. Feitico was a word I didn't recognise. When I checked google translate [yes, I know. Not the most accurate source] it gave the translation as *spell*. I'm wondering if that may be why it doesn't have the same associations...? Words & names are funny things. Meanings change & get lost & I'm always getting caught by surprise. Blowing like the clappers was common usage when I was growing up but the actual meaning can make me blush. No. Not sharing. Look it up yourself!

 

[Shadrach]

Ok. Feitico was a word I didn't recognise. When I checked google translate [yes, I know. Not the most accurate source] it gave the translation as *spell*. I'm wondering if that may be why it doesn't have the same associations...? Words & names are funny things. Meanings change & get lost & I'm always getting caught by surprise. Blowing like the clappers was common usage when I was growing up but the actual meaning can make me blush. No. Not sharing. Look it up yourself!

Can't find what you have found apparently.