Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Awwwww babies I Luvs Karen and twiggy is sooooo cute.

And Karen

 

[BY Bob]

Bob my magnolia only got four blossoms this year.

But my rhododendron got blossoms and I didn’t wrap it this winter so I figured I would have it killed by wind and cold the leaves are discoloured so we shall see what happens later in summer .

That's 4 more than I got. I'm glad you at least got them.

 

[Ponypoor]

Now for the rest of the pictures.

What are you doing up there Cricket?
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Cricket is a porch chicken no longer, first night she attempted, and succeeded to get up on the big roost.
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Lilly on the other hand, was asleep in the porch box and had to be carried to roost beside her sister. I want them both to learn to roost together so it was either take Cricket back to the porch or move Lilly.
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Now for my little hooligans. They finally all 7 have names. I had been calling the 3 red chicks the "Grannies". We could not settle on a agreeable name for the other 2 red chicks until the other day. This group is nosey, and if they are off by themselves and you try to do something with any of the others you can give it 2 minutes until they come running to see what is happening. My dad started calling them the "bitty committee". That is when their names dawned on both me and mom at the same time. The 3 red chicks are now Granny, Berthie, and Lassie. When those 3 ladie's were alive, they could all 3 be found sitting around my Great-Grannie's kitchen table gossiping. Nothing went on in that holler that they did not know about and they made sure everyone else knew about it as well before they left that table. Their gossip also resulted in a well deserved sore backside a few times growing up. If me or my brother were doing something we knew we were not supposed to be doing, one of them spotted us and mom knew it before we even walked in the door.
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Finally Bunny, Twiggy and George.
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Awesome pics I want my roosts by my window!!! (Oh I know is not practical here with the amt of predators)....

You all must be newfoundlanders, nothing got past my Gramma and my aunt's we kids could run free but if we did something we shouldn't our butts knew about it ha!

Then with my sister's kids were caught playing on the railroad tracks and boy did my dad give it to them! I never had my dad discipline any of us it was always the women in the family. But my dad worked for the railroad and he knew the dangers of trains! Allison and Julia, welcome to newfoundland style punishment! And everyone knew about it!

Let be that last photo btw it's awesome!

 

[Ponypoor]

That's 4 more than I got. I'm glad you at least got them.

Yep and that rhododendron is living this cool wet weather, throwing out leaves let me crazy!! I was going to get rid of it, glad I didn't.

 

[BY Bob]

Good morning everyone. Happy Fluffy Butt Friday. I will probably use a old photo later on tonight. I do not think I'm going to be up to bringing out the camera today. In the past 3 days my sweet Daisy has taken a decline, and this morning she is walking like a penguin. It is sadly time and I will not let her suffer. I am just having a cup of coffee mentally preparing myself to do the deed. I can do it, but I am a wreck afterwards. I am torn on opening her up to see exactly what the problem was. I want to know, but I think I'm going to bury her intact with dignity. I will most likely end up spending a hour digging her grave as my yard is fill dirt which means all rocks but she is getting a place of honor in front of my River Birch tree beside my golden retriever. It was one of her favorite hangouts, and the place she loved to snake hunt the most so it is fitting.

I'm so sorry.

I wish I had been around when it happened.

 

[LozzyR]

I just watched and listened and I love this one, Lozzy! Way to go!

Thanks CB!

 

[BY Bob]

I am so pleased Minnie is doing better. Can I suggest you have a chat with @Perris because they twigged me to the fact chickens are a grazing bird but I found all mine got diahorrea when they moved onto grass. I'm not sure how you are doing seasonally but I'm wondering if coming off winter rations onto spring grass may have something to do with it. 6 months down the track I am still getting some ugly black splats, which makes me think the radical change in diet & keeping conditions is contributing to them.

My crew move to grass a quick as it grows. Initially there are some nasty black poos, especially from Aurora. They mostly go away but reappear from time to time throughout the summer.

I have come to expect the black poos as part of the spring ritual changing of the seasons. I associated them with the change of seasons and never thought they might be change of diet related.

Interesting

 

[BY Bob]

They make a broiler grower or finisher/grower that is lower protein but not a layer (the Hooligans are really still too young to have the higher calcium...per general info and @Shad's comments of Vet, etc.)

Alternately, a whole flock is a possibility, too.

I worry about all of the little nutrients that growing hens need, especially since Bernadette's nutrient issues. I would keep them on chick feed.

But that's me.

 

[BY Bob]

@ManueB i agree with this. Lots of massage. Try frozen butter. Olive oil is fine but messy. Make sure she has lots of grit available.
Work on getting good bacteria or yeast in her - live yoghurt or kefir.
Finally I believe Daktarin Crème is available over the counter in France. It is the same ingredient as miconazole cream in the US. If you get a hold of it then dosing is a bit random - based on advice here on BYC I gave about 3cm twice a day. I used a small syringe and direct dosed into her crop.

https://www.pharmacodel.com/mycoses/9006-daktarin-creme-30-g.html

I'm confused. Why would you treat a yeast infection by utilizing a product that actually contains yeast?

A 1981 study published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology examined the yogurts for the presence of yeasts.

Yogurts purchased from retail outlets were examined for the presence of yeasts by being plated onto oxytetracycline malt extract agar. Of the 128 samples examined, 45% exhibited yeast counts above 103 cells per g.

In the study, a total of 73 yeast strains were isolated and identified as belonging to the genera Torulopsis, Kluyveromyces, Saccharomyces, Candida, Rhodotorula, Pichia, Debaryomyces, and Sporobolomyces. Torulopsis candida and Kluyveromyces fragilis were the most frequently isolated species.

Torulopsis candida is now called Candida glabrata. C. glabrata is often the second or third most common cause of candidiasis after C. albicans.

I know that the use of yogurts to treat yeast infections is considered a homeopathic treatment.

Based upon the logic of possibly feeding the infection more yeast, I would advise against it myself.

What you are trying to do with yogurt is to introduce Lactobaccillus bacteria to replace the yeast with nonpathogenic bacteria. This could more safely be accomplished by adding a probiotic to their water. Nearly all of them include lactobacillus as their primary bacteria.

Bacteria tax

 

[fuentemoon]

A very late west coast mug: