Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

On a good day I can get two 35ml feeds into her. Mostly I can only get one feed in. The limitation is that if I tube feed into a very full crop I risk causing aspiration.
According to the great oracle at Google the average chicken drinks a half a liter a day. That is 500mls.
So, if that is true, my tube feeding is getting her roughly half her fluid requirements.
She is getting a bit more from the corn because that is frozen not dried.
What I am tubing is baby bird formula with added Pedialyte (which is basically sugar water with electrolytes). I am adding some extra probiotics and some extra vitamins.

500mls??? They didn’t tell my chickens that! Today they hardly drank anything…

 

[Ponypoor]

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They sure are cute at that age! And grow like crazy!

 

[RoyalChick]

500mls??? They didn’t tell my chickens that! Today they hardly drank anything…

And I corrected my math - if the 500mls is right then Bella is getting only 10% of what she needs. I don't know if the 500mls is correct - all the usual suspected repeat that number.

 

[Ponypoor]

Ok everyone I have had it for today and my back is bothering me I am hitting the hay catch you all later

 

[Ponypoor]

And I corrected my math - if the 500mls is right then Bella is getting only 10% of what she needs. I don't know if the 500mls is correct - all the usual suspected repeat that number.

You can try just pedialite… might help the crop issue .

 

[ValarieF]

They sure are cute at that age! And grow like crazy!

Yes thay are growing like crazy

 

[fuentemoon]

Mine rarely drink that much. Only now when it is hot out are they big drinkers.

 

[lightm]

OK THAT'S IT PEOPLE. I am at page 10001 (July 10th) so I am prematurely declaring victory on caught up.

I am going to write my long post now. (Don't get your hopes up, it's just chickens...)

 

[Kris5902]

Ok so this is the calculation for the probability of an event:

Divide the number of events by the number of possible outcomes. After determining the probability event and its corresponding outcomes, divide the total number of ways the event can occur by the total number of possible outcomes.

So you see for this you would need to know
1) number of possible outcomes in this case a good guesstimate
2) total number of ways the event can occur - one would need to guesstimate here
3) total number of possible outcomes - again a guesstimate

So any probability is really based upon a good guess - or the ‘Your guess is as good as mine’ theory

I can say based on the last several years experience the probability of a vocal poop being deposited on the carpet is at least 95%. Although if I was scientifically enough minded I suppose I could try to chart the number of “OUTSIDE CHICKEN” incursions into the living space followed by the number of “what’s that smell?” Or “ewwwwww (ok my language is a little more “creative”) what did I just step in?!?” But I am 98% sure that it’s at least 95% of the time that they get in…

 

[featherhead007]

Ok so this is the calculation for the probability of an event:

Divide the number of events by the number of possible outcomes. After determining the probability event and its corresponding outcomes, divide the total number of ways the event can occur by the total number of possible outcomes.

So you see for this you would need to know
1) number of possible outcomes in this case a good guesstimate
2) total number of ways the event can occur - one would need to guesstimate here
3) total number of possible outcomes - again a guesstimate

So any probability is really based upon a good guess - or the ‘Your guess is as good as mine’ theory