Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Kris5902]

Yes, it’s there! However, I’m a bit rattled right now, as I think I need to tube fluids into Ester and I’m scared. She is very weak and stumbling, but she is not handled easily and is covered in pin feathers. I don’t want to hurt her, but if I don’t get fluids into her, I feat she’ll die.

Have you tried a really wet mush? I have never tube fed, and really don’t like even trying to force feed or administer liquid medicines... I find a fluffy towel helps when I have to handle a heavy molter to bring them in for extra protien

 

[micstrachan]

Have you tried a really wet mush?

Yes. She ate it the first couple days, but no longer. she’ll eat live meal worms and soaked wheat berries, but she needs fluids. She’s fading.

 

[Kris5902]

Yes. She ate it the first couple days, but no longer. she’ll eat live meal worms and soaked wheat berries, but she needs fluids. She’s fading.

We are all thinking of her... and hoping she will recover, you’ll do right by her. Poor Girl. I really find if you can get another person to help it is easier. And soft sweatshirts and fluffy towels seem to help ease the discomfort of handling with pin feathers all over. More for cushioning than anything else

 

[BY Bob]

Strangely I don’t usually have too much trouble with this aspect, but I have much more roosting space available, most of the time.

Do you think it was maybe Hazel that was running back and forth between Queenie and the roosting box? I have a few hens like this, and my roosters do it as well, refusing to go up for the night until everyone is in... sometimes getting distressed if a chicken is out and can’t figure a way in. (Sometimes a girl will get on the wrong side of a fence, and not be able to get with their flock at roosting time until the big pink skinned rooster comes to the rescue)

This is a good thought. It could be that Queenie already has a new friend.

 

[RoyalChick]

Yes. She ate it the first couple days, but no longer. she’ll eat live meal worms and soaked wheat berries, but she needs fluids. She’s fading.

I saw your post on the emergencies thread. Just posting here to say I am thinking of you and to wish you good luck with whatever you decide to do.

 

[micstrachan]

I saw your post on the emergencies thread. Just posting here to say I am thinking of you and to wish you good luck with whatever you decide to do.

Thanks, RC.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Strangely I don’t usually have too much trouble with this aspect, but I have much more roosting space available, most of the time.

Do you think it was maybe Hazel that was running back and forth between Queenie and the roosting box? I have a few hens like this, and my roosters do it as well, refusing to go up for the night until everyone is in... sometimes getting distressed if a chicken is out and can’t figure a way in. (Sometimes a girl will get on the wrong side of a fence, and not be able to get with their flock at roosting time until the big pink skinned rooster comes to the rescue)

I remember thinking it WAS Hazel running back and forth. Interestingly yesterday I had the impression that as fierce as Hazel is, she's been the fiercest, she and Queenie might actually bond well, as Hazel is paying the most attention to her, but not in pecking all the time, but hanging near her. Maybe in case some pecking is called for, or something? But I really know nothing about this kind of thing.

 

[BY Bob]

Here's the ice this morning.

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There is a propane tanker truck that overturned on a bridge and it's leaking. My friends had to be evacuated at 7am because of it.

Which bridge? The susquehanna?

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Do you have perches at different heights @ChicoryBlue ? Specifically above hen head height and eye line. If she needs to get away Queenie could disappear straight up. Out of sight, out of mind as it were.

Now I do, with the sawhorse and a corner perch. Thank you for the tip about being above the head and eyeline, I will keep that in mind! The buckets which I thought could be used that way are definitely not tall enough.

 

[Shadrach]

This should be the link to my channel, let me know if it doesn’t work.

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCQsJR6m1AKyjqVSI2AvuT1A

Okay. I'm impressed.
I'm going to check the rest out with the other browser. I have one browser running No Script and another that doesn't.