Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[micstrachan]

I've taken a risk with Mag.
I've bought some asprin 100mg tablets and crushed one then divided it into eight.
I'm goinng to give Mag one of the eight doses once a day for eight days.
The idea is the same as it is for human heart attack sufferers. The asprin thins the blood. I would use garlic but I can't find out how much I need to give to get the equivelant asprin dose.
If he's popped a valve or done some other permenant heart damage the asprin probably wont make any difference. If however, he has a blockage or anorrowing of an artery then it may help.
I haven't been able to get any pictures today because we've got 50mph to 60mph winds here atm and the chickens, if they aren't hanging onto a nearby branch, don't stay visible for long.

Being that it seems common for roosters to go blue in the comb prior to sudden death by heart attack, I think it’s worth a try. Thinking of both of you, Shad. Let us know how it goes.

 

[micstrachan]

Christmas day. A bit chilly but lovely.
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Chicken paradise!

 

[micstrachan]

Hmmm. That is a mystery. You would think any kind of heart problem severe enough to reduce oxygen to his comb would limit his activities in other ways.
Is it possible he ate something toxic?

Hmmm... I thought Shad ruled that out? I agree it seems odd that he’s so fit and has oxygenation issues at the same time.

Shad, I just remembered something. When Margo got sick the first time, her comb was purpling in the back. It recovered. I treated her for a suspected oviduct infection. It started purpling again the second time, a year later, when she had a septic infection that took her quickly. Can you consult with Gloria? I don’t recall, was Gloria sick or just unable to see patients due to COVID?

Here is Margo’s comb the first time.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I just realized a few minutes ago that one of the photo's I submitted back in the summer was chosen for POW. I'd actually forgotten about submitting that photo. Its sweet though that the solid yellow chick ended up blossoming into my beautiful but spoiled Butter.

 

[micstrachan]

I just realized a few minutes ago that one of the photo's I submitted back in the summer was chosen for POW. I'd actually forgotten about submitting that photo. Its sweet though that the solid yellow chick ended up blossoming into my beautiful but spoiled Butter.

Congratulations! Lovely photo!

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Hello everyone, I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. I got behind on keeping up with this thread and the forum the past couple months. Its funny how far behind you can get here with just missing a day, impossible to keep up when you go a week or longer without popping on. Last few days i've played catch up as much as I could and i'm deeply sorry to read a couple members have lost flock members. Especially Stanley, he was gorgeous. Hopefully Ned can fill his fathers big footprints one day. My flock is doing well and is completely different from this time last year. Thanks to my compulsive broody hens and desire to hatch off more marans chicks for myself in hopes of more hens i now have 10 of the lovely black beauties. And "knock on wood" my rooster streak was broke, of 7 maran chicks hatched, only 1 boy who i've decided to keep as a backup incase something were to happen to my beloved Drummie. Praying that never happens, I want that lovebug around for years. I think my family has came to the realization that i am the crazy chick lady and that they are not a fad and will be around forever like my daughter is with her horses. For Christmas i got a incubator, egg turner and more chicken accessories. It is what i've been wanting for a while now but refusing to buy for myself as i know me, i cant bring myself to break a broody hen, when hatching season starts that thing will stay full lol. Since its now a new thing for monday mug shots i have 2 for everyone. Taken on Christmas.
Holly
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Butter, my mom's personal favorite chicken who she has spoiled and thanks to her has admitted she need to join the crazy chicken lady club.
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Both girls working hard to fill up the incubator. After all, never used one before, and it does need to be tested out before hatching season starts...and this is coming from my MOTHER lol. Right now have 6 eggs set aside, 3 from each girl, thinking of starting the process tomorrow evening. I was going to be a good person, and not fire it up untill the last week of January.

Look at those red specs in Holly's hackle feathers. Lovely.

Butters is a very sweet, cuddly looking hen. That's a particularly nice photo.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Christmas day. A bit chilly but lovely.
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The sky in that first photo is a stunning shade of blue

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Exactly! There are questions to be answered.

• How big would I want it to be?
• How high up?
• Ramp or steps?
• What kind of automated door?
• Do I include Nest Boxes?
• Do I include a location for food and water?
• How would I get electricity there to heat water if I included space for water?
• What kind of window would I use? (it would have to include a window)
• How many hens should I build it for?
• How would I do ventilation?
• What else am I forgetting?

All of these lead to design. Of course the big questions is, do I really want to do this?

Make the new coop big enough for 5 hens Bob, in case everyone wants to get away from Aurora.

 

[BY Bob]

Even if it is a valve issue, reducing the pressure by thinning the blood could be very helpful... and aspirin is such a mild thinner I wouldn’t worry too much about using it. I have to say when DH actually takes his warfarin regularly, it really reduces the number of heart complications he has. They are milder, last a shorter time, and are significantly less frequent. He resisted being put on the thinners for years because of his occupation and tendency to get cut. The Dr’s never told him it was to reduce the pressure on his heart valves, they always went on about clots (which he had no history of). I wouldn’t expect overnight changes though, and have no idea how you would go about testing a chicken’s INR.

You test a chicken's INR the same way you test a human's, by drawing blood and sending it to a lab. Now what is therapeutic for a chicken is probably unknown.

 

[BY Bob]

the noodles look good too!

It's hard to beat home made pasta.