Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

My test yesterday was still very positive and I still have symptoms. Slooowly improving, though. I can go back to the office Monday. Working while sick was quite difficult, as actually. I’m looking forward to feeling good again!

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That is am awesome photo!

 

[Ponypoor]

So, I know I am EST, and it is still quite early PST, but I'm anxiously awaiting news on Minnie. Hoping she is feeling better today.

Yes me too! I will have to ask Michelle about her soft egg experience, one of my gals keeps laying soft eggs, and many times two at a time. No one seems I'll or lethargic, so I am not overly worried, but I keep an eye on the gals.

 

[bgmathteach]

Manuka honey really works well for a prolapse. My Agatha can confirm this.

Be careful, chickens like honey. Don't want someone else pecking at it for the honey!

 

[BY Bob]

So lately when I’m weeding, Minnie is right in my way… Like literally has her head directly over the spot I’m pulling weeds out of and is trying to peck at the dirt right at that spot. It’s really pretty darn cute. However, today after work, I noticed she was still hovering around me, but was not very active. I kept an eye on her and could tell she very clearly wasn’t feeling well and she proceeded to get worse. Couple times when I picked her up she had diarrhea on me. Eventually I brought the girls into the run on the early side, because she couldn’t keep up and I thought she wanted to be in, but have her friends around her. I brought a chair out and some wine and took this video.

But then I realized she was straining and shot this quick video… I figured she was either egg bound or had a soft egg or both and ran inside for some calcium.

When I came back out, all the girls were huddled around where she had been. I figured she had dropped a soft egg, as they were eating something off the ground, and she had perked up some. She still clearly doesn’t feel well and I hope she’s going to be OK. I popped the calcium and hope it helps her recover. Poor baby! I will have a look at her vent after they go to bed.
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It does look like a soft shelled egg. Hopefully she can work through this quickly and it is not a long term problem.

 

[BY Bob]

Didn't the founder of m&m Mars originally work at Hershey chocolate? I took a tour of Hershey and want to remember it that way.

I do not remember, sorry. I do know that the founder of M&Ms got the idea from serving in the Spanish Civil War. In his food kits in the war were candy coated chocolates. He took that idea when he returned to the US after the war and started M&Ms.

Candy Tax

 

[BY Bob]

I went to Hershey chocolate last month and I already don't remember haha

Thanks for coming by. I hope you enjoyed it!

 

[Bonwell]

Thanks for coming by. I hope you enjoyed it!

Oh, you live in Hershey! I didn't even know that haha. Yeah I enjoyed myself, we went to the Chocolate factory and the Hershey Gardens, Beautiful place.

 

[BY Bob]

I'm not swearing to it as I've slept since then. Lol.

Well according to the interwebs Franklin Mars had nothing to do with Hershey. In fact never was anywhere near PA.

It was his son. I found the connection. From the interwebs.......

Forrest Mars, Sr., son of the Mars Company founder, Frank C. Mars, copied the idea for the candy in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War when he saw soldiers eating British-made Smarties, chocolate pellets with a colored shell of what confectioners call hard panning (essentially hardened sugar syrup) surrounding the outside, preventing the sweets (candies) from melting. Mars received a patent for his own process on March 3, 1941.[7] Production began in 1941 in a factory located at 285 Badger Avenue in Clinton Hill, Newark, New Jersey. When the company was founded it was M&M Limited.[8] The two 'M's represent the names of Forrest E. Mars Sr., the founder of Newark Company, and Bruce Murrie, son of Hershey Chocolate's president William F. R. Murrie, who had a 20 percent share in the product.[9] The arrangement allowed the candies to be made with Hershey chocolate, as Hershey had control of the rationed chocolate at the time.[7]

Chocolate tax

 

[BY Bob]

Too dang hot to only be May!
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Wow!

 

[BY Bob]

Wayyy too hot for my liking!

It's a little cool here for May but it is headed to more normal.