Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Shadrach]

Lima is looking wonderful!! Thanks to your good care and attention to her deformed trachea.. I suspect she enjoys her time with bucket boy

Speaking of which, how is Henry II doing? Are his feet/legs free of mites & are they looking better yet? I have no idea when/how quickly they 'shed' leg scales and regrow new ones.

His legs don't look much better but he pecks at them less. It's going to take time and he's not fond of being picked up. He knows now and buries himself in the hens in the coop which makes getting him out at night and back in again difficult.

 

[micstrachan]

@micstrachan someone else who doesn't sleep at night ?

I was checking my barn cam, chooks and geegees all behaving.

No, I just stay up too late. I am chronically underslept.

 

[micstrachan]

I think they are pretty dark right now post molt. I really think that like Hattie, she fades as the year goes on.

I thought that might be the case, but wondered if they faded with age, too (even though they get new ones each year).

 

[featherhead007]

No, I just stay up too late. I am chronically underslept.

It’s just all our California background noise keeping us awake!

 

[micstrachan]

I would put her in with the others.

I did. I appreciate your input/opinion regardless.

 

[featherhead007]

I thought that might be the case, but wondered if they faded with age, too (even though they get new ones each year).

Rocks-Anne gets darker each year after molting. (Very pretty feathers though)

 

[featherhead007]

I’m here negotiating with Arizona at the moment. She wants to make noise, and perch in my room tonight. I told her “I know you are a chicken, but this isn’t Burger King. You can’t have it your way!” And “AZ, you better calm down, or it just might be KFC for you”! (She hasn’t peeped since)

 

[micstrachan]

Hi everyone. Ester isn’t feeling well. She’s standing around, has a poopy back end, does not seem to be eating much, and I think she is swollen. Not a good combination. Her posture is good while she is standing, but she is pretty inactive and (barely) scratches heartlessly.

It’s too cold to wash her bum, so I trimmed some feathers, gloved up, and pulled poop off. I also generously dusted her back end with cornstarch in hopes it would help me crumble the poop off (I think it helped).

I checked her crop when she went to roost and it was not empty. I hope that means she’s been eating when I’m not looking and not that it’s slow. I’ll check in the morning.

Her vent was VERY messy and tiny. I may bring her in for a couple hours tomorrow morning so I can properly wash her vent and surrounding area. A few months back she was messy in the back and seemed not to feel well, but was much better after I washed her off. I hope that’s what happened here… messy butt feathers backed her up, but I fear she has a reproductive problem. She never really came back into lay after her ordeal last winter at this exact same time.

 

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More photos of Willow & her Christmas chicks...

 

[featherhead007]

Hi everyone. Ester isn’t feeling well. She’s standing around, has a poopy back end, does not seem to be eating much, and I think she is swollen. Not a good combination. Her posture is good while she is standing, but she is pretty inactive and (barely) scratches heartlessly.

It’s too cold to wash her bum, so I trimmed some feathers, gloved up, and pulled poop off. I also generously dusted her back end with cornstarch in hopes it would help me crumble the poop off (I think it helped).

I checked her crop when she went to roost and it was not empty. I hope that means she’s been eating when I’m not looking and not that it’s slow. I’ll check in the morning.

Her vent was VERY messy and tiny. I may bring her in for a couple hours tomorrow morning so I can properly wash her vent and surrounding area. A few months back she was messy in the back and seemed not to feel well, but was much better after I washed her off. I hope that’s what happened here.., messy butt feathers backed her up, but I fear she had a reproductive problem. She never really came back into lay after her ordeal last winter at this exact same time.