Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ChicoryBlue]

Back at you, "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."

No idea! Hint on mine: The Eight Dimension, and I don't mean a warped musical group!

 

[BY Bob]

Giving Up

At 6:00 pm they have given up and gone inside. Poor things

 

[Marie2020]

Good night .

Stay safe Bob

 

[featherhead007]

Bass! Bass guitar. I also have but am out of shape for a small electric upright.

I love bass fishing too! Big bass small bass, it doesn’t matter!

 

[featherhead007]

All the birds are healthy! Vet said to change the diet to less protein and more calcium levels. And at $200 bucks later, I drove back home. Proud papa!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Back at you, "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."

I cheated and Googled it! I know I am severely under-read when it comes to Lewis Carrol. Truth is, I was introduced to Roal Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - by a librarian story-telling session in early elementary school, and I was too young, or too trusting and naive, or something, and was actually rather traumatized by it. After some kids drowned in liquid chocolate I remember suddenly focusing on the rug weave, and the book spines on the shelves near me instead. I couldn't tell you what happens after that, or how it ends, probably badly.

Here was this kindly school librarian, smiling and telling this most gruesome story, in a talking-to-little-kids sing-song voice that I remember to this day. I was afraid of her after that. In a way, that experience was a double-helping of the same dark humor! So, later on when I encountered Lewis Carrol and Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, I smelled another rat. It's only through repeated exposure in adulthood do I have any clue about it. I've always loved the Jabberwocky poem though.

 

[Scrambles83]

Deana is not a well girl

From the front she looks fine. Bright eyes, red upright comb and an inquiring look.
The other end is a different story. Tail down, runny white and green poop sticking the feathers together and her abdomen feels kind of full and mushy, like a water balloon.

I examined her and couldn't feel any blockages. Trimmed off the yucky feathers and gave her a bath.

Her appetite seems a bit depressed, though she will happily take meal worms! She is still preening too.

I feel like I am getting mixed signals about how well she is.

I hope she picks up for you ACM

 

[MaryJanet]

The front will try to hide bad goings on from everyone as long as possible. The back is telling me she needs help. I would very quickly gamble that she has an infection going. Can you get her to the vet? If not, I would suggest getting her on an antibiotic quickly.

Exactly my thoughts, except I was thinking ascites (but I'm not very experienced). Trust the back end. I'd take her to the vet for sure.

 

[MaryJanet]

Yup - as I thought, I owe SHRA tax.
I went back in time to when the Roadrunners were just ten days old and just moved out to the brooder box in the coop.
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Baby road runners Awww so sweet with their fluffy feathers

 

[MaryJanet]

This is very true. That was why I tried to get her chicks to raise. We all know how that turned out.

I'm still hopping mad at the post office.