Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[WhoDatChick]

Amber said she's the winner. What do you think @featherhead007
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That looks like a painting!

 

[WhoDatChick]

Amber said she's the winner. What do you think @featherhead007
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That looks like a painting!

 

[LozzyR]

Yes, sadly I've been reading. . I know it could be from something else, I figured I had this last year but wasn't diagnosed, and from reading I realize I could be suffering from it for a while. I also have something else going on that is hard to explain. I call it woozy head. Seeing another doc for that this month.. have seen a nuero.. I won't get into detail, but from having this horrible tummy thing plus this other, I've honestly been having a hard time doing/taking care of the chickens. Our son has helped but he and his wife work and he doesn't have the time to help as much as I need. I just don't feel well enough with this stomach thing. I used to get out there and clean like no other. I also don't want to take any chances. What if I'm a lucky one and this course of treatment helps and I don't have recurrence? I can hope. I'm getting old. I have to be well..I want to keep my husband home to die. I need to take care of me best I can. My kids thought at first it was stress causing my stomach problems. Maybe. . Stress very well could have caused my immune system to misbehave. Stress can cause a lot of problems. I'm slowly losing my love of my life. Yes, I'm stressed. My chickens need to be where they can be taken care of. I honestly thought I could do this again when I started a couple of months back.

 

[LozzyR]

I found out who took BLU. he arrived today at my gate drunk and wanted to fight me. (Big mistake) I cuffed him with zip tie, and he's off to jail. I'm pressing full charges. It won't bring BLU back but cowards do stupid things, especially drunk ones!

What a moron. I hope he gets the book thrown at him.

 

[WhoDatChick]

Hey everyone! Before the day is over I wanted yall to know that today is....... INTERNATIONAL RESPECT FOR CHICKENS DAY!!

 

[featherhead007]

Hey everyone! Before the day is over I wanted yall to know that today is....... INTERNATIONAL RESPECT FOR CHICKENS DAY!!

You would think, that every day is “respect for chickens day”

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I've been in for fluids. Drs office, then to ER. ER doc sent me home with prescription for potassium and one for nausea. Dr said today to drink a lot of water with this medication I'm on now. Thank you. . You went through the same??

Well, it was never truly diagnosed so I don't know. But I got ravaged by some microbe. I went through severe cramps & diarrhea, severe dehydration and serious weight loss over about three plus weeks. But I never had nausea. Just eating and drinking became really problematic. In the ER I realized they thought I might be anorexic because of my decline. It took them some days and some medieval-style tests to get a handle on it. (It was the 80's. No anaethesia or happy drugs and they went spelunking through me while my gut tried to throw them out). They determined that no, I wasn't in some anorexic crisis, my gut was all inflamed and had basically stopped digesting food. They found nothing in culture. Their theory was that I had had something, but it had cleared out and left me in such a state I was unable to recover quickly enough before getting laid low.

The only thing I could trace it to was that I shared a salad fork with a bandmate who also got sick around the same time, and I was using a strong chemical to remove paint around then too. Outside, but it wasn't good. I later found out several musicians in the community and their families were sick to varying degrees with similar complaints, but we all went to different doctors and the doctors didn't notify each other. I was the only one who went really downhill and had trouble getting over it. It took different graduated medications and careful food choices over the next several weeks and months to stabilize my weight but I slowly began to improve. I remember how thrilled my doctor was when I gained an ounce! Then maintenance meds - they took the tack of treating it like ulcerative colitis/crohn's - for about a year. After a year there was no trace of damage or UC disease when they checked again. Nobody had any new theory.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I've actually talked with our daughter in law about washing her hands good after changing her son's diaper. He goes to daycare. . I don't want to take any chances. He wasn't in daycare when I got sick like this last year, but I did hatch and have chickens. .

What is it about hatching that is a particular problem with this, as opposed to keeping chickens?

 

[micstrachan]

I couldn't be more sad. Found out why I've had stomach problems. It's been bad. I have C. diff. Yes, they are finding that animals .. birds...can transmit it. I have a pretty sad immune system. No antibiotics to have caused it. I did this last year. Same time. We tried to figure out what I did the same that caused me to be sick. I hatched! Had this last year but got over it without the help with meds. This year I have to take something and cross fingers it helps. Placing ..all..of my chickens. I don't want to hurt like this again!

I saw this post briefly yesterday, but don’t think I responded, as I did not have time for a proper response. I am so very sorry you have been suffering and that your best chance at feeling better involves placing all your chickens. Awful on all fronts. Hugs to you and I sincerely hope for you to be feeling better, at least physically.

 

[micstrachan]

Chicken tax for mountain photos. I'm going to go through my chicken photos. I started this journey 11 years ago. I had a lot of fun. Think this girl was broody? Nope. She just didn't want me opening the nest box to check for eggs while she was in there! View attachment 2648385

Pretty girl!