Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Oh my gosh!!! Ned is gorgeous! Thank you for this wonderful post. It looks like Ned is having a fabulous life!!!

A far better life than he would have had here.

 

[featherhead007]

If you weren't whining about the weather constantly, I might be tempted.

You wouldn’t want it. The heat in summer is hell! And there are only two seasons. Dry and dusty, and drier and dustier in summer. (So, sorry I mentioned it)

 

[MaryJanet]

I don't think it is about medicated feed - that is only inhibiting thiamine not B2.
I have kept researching the whole thing and also seeing a number of other possible cases here on BYC. One of the things I read suggested that vitamin B2, and possibly some of the other B complex vitamins, are one of the more common deficiencies. The reason they gave is that they are not very stable and degrade over time, in heat etc. So even if the feed is perfectly fine it may not have as much vitamin B as it should eg if it has been on the shelf a while or been in high temperatures in transit.
I have no idea if it is true and I am not sure the date on the feed my lot had early on, but it seemed a plausible underlying cause.

This is good to know, thanks RC.

 

[Marie2020]

OK I'm back to being concerned about Gucci. I'm not actively looking for this, it just jumps out at me, in the beginning and then again at the end, the two places you can clearly see how she's moving. She's not walking well. In this video it's her left leg. It's weak compared to the right, she is centering herself over her right leg to take weight and then limping when she puts weight on the left. And she is tending to want to sit not stand. Hopefully this is intermittent, or a minor injury, and if it's real like @RoyalChick's Bernadette, B vitamins will help?

I swear by turmeric. On the whole it's been a life saver for my animals. I just mix it into their feed along with ginger powder.
Tina must have hurt her leg and foot while jumping of the perch several months ago because she was limping badly, those two ingredients really helped. As well as soaking her legs in Epson salt and acv

 

[Marie2020]

I heard that!

 

[rural mouse]

It really was too much to ask to just have a normal pullet raising process.

That's 3 birds this year with b vitamin issues. No idea where the feed store got Hector, but they aren't all on the same feed... or water... or even same area... or same breed. How? Bright side: simple treatment (provided that's what it is...
)

 

[Ponypoor]

My EE girls are broody. Got 2 sharing a nest now.

Wow silly gals! Are you letting them hatch any eggs?

 

[Ponypoor]

Exactly!

Sneaky gal haha

 

[LozzyR]

Sharing!

 

[Marie2020]

My lovely ones had time next door this morning and came back with no problems when I shook the sunflower seeds bag.