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Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock
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Hmmm Alinta is the name of an energy company. But perhaps it has a meaning in one of the aboriginal languages.Our Australorps were named similarly
They were A and B until we were a little more sure they were both hens, then we looked up "traditional" Australian names and found Alinta and Brenna
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No it does not.Does it make me a bad person that when I read 'world came to an end and only chickens survived' I gave a sigh of relief?
Sydney agrees with me.
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Great mugs! Thanks for posting!
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Good names! I like them.Our Australorps were named similarly
They were A and B until we were a little more sure they were both hens, then we looked up "traditional" Australian names and found Alinta and Brenna
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I just love "sticky-outy leg part". Very funny!
I liked ‘jump sticks’!
I am sure it will help Kris a lot as she learns one end of a goat from the other.
Lozzy, I'm sorry for being so forgetful, but could you please check if I've got your flock right?
Charlie the Australorp
River the faverolles
Tegan the other faverolles
Two reds whose names I can't recall
That’s ok, it’s hard to keep track of our global flock! (Or tribe.
) I will list them in pecking order:Charlie - black Australorp
Tegan - red Faverolle (is the singular meant to have an ‘s’ on the end? I thought it was but it just looks wrong.
)River - salmon Faverolle
Nyssa - salmon Faverolle
Lucy was my other ‘red’ (ISA Brown) but now I am down to four.
I found out the other day that the horrible person who owned the battery farm where the rescue charity was trying to save the hens, he also owned the place where I got my four ISAS! So glad I rescued them.
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Ok, home now, and yes Roostie is here with us, well with his ladies all tucked in, for the night; and he’s going to stay with us as long as I can keep him comfortable.
I saw the head Vet, that owns the practice... and yes... it’s a very, very fancy (pricey) vet office. He used a lot of big fancy words too, lol. After explaining to the vet assistant that that’s more than we can responsibly commit to Roostie (financially speaking, and with his chances of both survival and longevity, as a Ranger-type meat breed) and that we would take him home and euthanize him in accordance with proper humane standards when his quality of life has declined to the point that it becomes necessary, hopefully as far in the future as possible.
The assistant countered with a “maybe we can prescribe some pain meds and try the antibiotics?” Well, I know better than to Actually ask for any drugs, so I asked “how much?” Instead... and he’s now on 500 mg of amoxicillin/cepha(I can’t look at it right now cause the kid is finally asleep on my lap, but I had the meds name in my last ‘disappeared’ post) something twice a day for ten days. Fingers crossed it helps... that’s 1000mg a day for my not quite 11lb boyo. He has definitely lost some weight over this. I was also able to finagle some betadine, so if the infection points (highly unlikely) I can lance it and debride any necrotic tissue, and clean it more effectively.
That’s where we are at for now. I’m running on a couple hours of spotty interrupted sleep, and have been up for 17 long, long hours... so please excuse my spelling, punctuation, and awful grammar. Dinner happening soon. And Arduinna is now probably the second most photographed goat in the SGI (southern gulf Islands) after Millie (the last local “celebrity” goat raised by a local author/photographer, to answer a previous question, I think by ACM? Or CCCL?, sorry I’m a little scrambled and behind as usual)
I saw the head Vet, that owns the practice... and yes... it’s a very, very fancy (pricey) vet office. He used a lot of big fancy words too, lol. After explaining to the vet assistant that that’s more than we can responsibly commit to Roostie (financially speaking, and with his chances of both survival and longevity, as a Ranger-type meat breed) and that we would take him home and euthanize him in accordance with proper humane standards when his quality of life has declined to the point that it becomes necessary, hopefully as far in the future as possible.
The assistant countered with a “maybe we can prescribe some pain meds and try the antibiotics?” Well, I know better than to Actually ask for any drugs, so I asked “how much?” Instead... and he’s now on 500 mg of amoxicillin/cepha(I can’t look at it right now cause the kid is finally asleep on my lap, but I had the meds name in my last ‘disappeared’ post) something twice a day for ten days. Fingers crossed it helps... that’s 1000mg a day for my not quite 11lb boyo. He has definitely lost some weight over this. I was also able to finagle some betadine, so if the infection points (highly unlikely) I can lance it and debride any necrotic tissue, and clean it more effectively.
That’s where we are at for now. I’m running on a couple hours of spotty interrupted sleep, and have been up for 17 long, long hours... so please excuse my spelling, punctuation, and awful grammar. Dinner happening soon. And Arduinna is now probably the second most photographed goat in the SGI (southern gulf Islands) after Millie (the last local “celebrity” goat raised by a local author/photographer, to answer a previous question, I think by ACM? Or CCCL?, sorry I’m a little scrambled and behind as usual)
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