Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

I'd totally keep her and after quarantine add her to your flock. I adore my buff!!! View attachment 2452756
This is Goldie, my lead hen. She's one of my roginal 6, she'll be 4 in the spring.

That really is one fluffy chicken!
In my chicken breed education I think this is another breed of chicken I can identify. I am improving! I think the breed is Orpington and the color is buff. Right?

 

[BY Bob]

I love the strategy of eating out of the top of the food bucket!

She always does that if she can.

 

[BY Bob]

I'd totally keep her and after quarantine add her to your flock. I adore my buff!!! View attachment 2452756
This is Goldie, my lead hen. She's one of my roginal 6, she'll be 4 in the spring.

She is a beauty too.

 

[BY Bob]

That really is one fluffy chicken!
In my chicken breed education I think this is another breed of chicken I can identify. I am improving! I think the breed is Orpington and the color is buff. Right?

That is correct. Hattie is also an orpington, color lavender.

 

[featherhead007]

That really is one fluffy chicken!
In my chicken breed education I think this is another breed of chicken I can identify. I am improving! I think the breed is Orpington and the color is buff. Right?

Winner Winner chicken dinner?

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

Thank you... but I don’t know that it would get here any sooner, between the border, Covid, and the holidays, the mail system seems a little overwhelmed here. I literally phoned my relatives and told everyone I’m not posting anything for Christmas until 2021...

I can sterilize the foot well enough for a procedure (and I’m honestly hoping it’s some innocuous infection and not the staph of the bumblefoot I was treating that is causing the swelling) I kept it clean and changed the dressing regularly. Everything seemed normal, if far more extreme than my previous bumblefoot experiences.

I think a clean syringe is a better, cleaner, and hopefully less painful, option than my “maybe I should just cut it open and see if that helps” thoughts. I had heard of “Prid” but not ichthammol

Do you have betadine? That is another staple in my chicken kit.

I would start with pouring/soaking the foot in peroxide to open any wound openings. Then rinse well and pour/soak/wrap his foot with straight betadine. You can even dilute to a dark tea color and soak it that way.

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

What are the storm reports @CrazyChookChookLady and @RoyalChick ?

I haven't had my ruler out yet, but the snow is more then half a lab high!!

I say we got close to 2 feet.

There is a table next to the rose bushes. You can see the snow piled up on that.

 

[BY Bob]

We got about 9 inches. It's still only 17 degrees here! I decided not let my chickens out into their uncovered run bc I was afraid they'd get stuck they aren't fond of snow anyway.View attachment 2452748

We are at 9 inches as well.

 

[BY Bob]

I haven't had my ruler out yet, but the snow is more then half a lab high!!
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I say we got close to 2 feet.
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There is a table next to the rose bushes. You can see the snow piled up on that.

That is quite a difference from us. 30 miles made a big difference in totals.

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

That really is one fluffy chicken!
In my chicken breed education I think this is another breed of chicken I can identify. I am improving! I think the breed is Orpington and the color is buff. Right?

Correct!!