Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

I'd say low dose mineral oil (teaspoon or so) in milk to attack from the front, then a warm water and dawn dish soap enema from the back, if needed.

Mrs BY Bob agrees with this method.

 

[BY Bob]

Hazel has a broken beak tip! Her upper beak. Must have happened in the last day or so. How would this happen, is there something I can do or not do to prevent more damage or damage to anyone else? It will never grow back, right? She can eat fine so far it seems.
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Ok, @Shadrach has worked with beaks. I think @Kris5902 has as well. I have not. That looks like you will need to file it but let's have the experts weigh in before you do anything.

 

[Kris5902]

Hazel has a broken beak tip! Her upper beak. Must have happened in the last day or so. How would this happen, is there something I can do or not do to prevent more damage or damage to anyone else? It will never grow back, right? She can eat fine so far it seems.
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It will probably grow back, slowly... she probably damaged it pecking too hard at something like a rock or something. Hawk chipped his beak fairly badly and it grew back, and I have one girl named Crack Beak for a good reason too. Can you tell if the cracking goes any further up?

edit to add: I don’t see any bleeding, so that’s a plus

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

I have never read anything by Lewis Carroll. Never on my reading list.

I can sympathise. I never really "got" "Alice in Wonderland" or "Through the Looking Glass" but I do enjoy his nonsense poetry.

Grame Base, the illustrator, put out a lovely version of "Jabberwocky" (which we have). No roosters in it though.❤

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

I was never a big fan of Alice either TBH, and the Hunting of the Snark wasn't my favorite either. But there are some classics buried in those like 'curiouser and curiouser' (which describes my attempts to understand my chicken's perfectly!), or 'I've believed as many as 6 impossible things before breakfast'.
My all time favorite of his is the Walrus and the Carpenter which isn't as long as the Snark.
Random factoid - I believe he died of the flu.

There are some great quotes in his writing, but I find the stories disjointed and hard to follow.

I know some of these, Walrus and Carpenter for example. He just never seemed my cup of tea.

I always felt rather upset by "The Walrus and the Carpenter". Those poor trusting oysters...

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Still nameless on the Goat front, and open to suggestions, though we have the bottle thing almost down now, and today she is in one of the Cat’s harnesses (from when we would walk them in the city). Potty training is going ok. Flower names here wouldn’t really suit, as the local Orchid names are a mouthful, snowdrops are the wrong color, clover and broom also don’t fit. She was in a cedar rootball or an alder one, old and rotting, she still smells of the earthy forest litter. She was near a creek, in a gully on the other side of the little swampy pond I’ve shown once or twice. She is obsessed with trying to eat plastic bags.

Perhaps Cedar or Alder then? Or Brook. Or maybe "Garbage Guts" since she wants to eat plastic bags.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Hazel has a broken beak tip! Her upper beak. Must have happened in the last day or so. How would this happen, is there something I can do or not do to prevent more damage or damage to anyone else? It will never grow back, right? She can eat fine so far it seems.
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Have you had a look at the emergency forums yet? Try searching "Broken beak" or "cracked beak".

I seem to remember reading a post where someone kind of "splinted" the crack using fine tissue or gauze and affixing with clear nail polish to help stabilise it until it healed over.

 

[featherhead007]

Hazel has a broken beak tip! Her upper beak. Must have happened in the last day or so. How would this happen, is there something I can do or not do to prevent more damage or damage to anyone else? It will never grow back, right? She can eat fine so far it seems.
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Just how could that have happened?

 

[featherhead007]

Perhaps Cedar or Alder then? Or Brook. Or maybe "Garbage Guts" since she wants to eat plastic bags.

Gully sounds good too

 

[featherhead007]

It’s bachelor night tonight so me and the roos are gonna watch a movie.