Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

I've had one of the most craziest full on days for years today. Ive been stuck in a cupboard for one . My bread mix has gone insane on me and I couldn't get it dry enough too mold it into shape then to ad even more bother I dropped the ruddy lid on it

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[BY Bob]

What on earth is spinosad @BY Bob

Can you tag where I used it?

 

[BY Bob]

The Buckeyes here don’t have that flat disc shape for combs so at least compared to these that’s different. This supposed to be a pea comb. But these guys are hatchery stock.

Hazel
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Butters, she knows it’s glamour time! Making sure I get both profiles.
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That Butters knows how to pose!

 

[Marie2020]

Can you tag where I used it?

I wouldn't have a clue

 

[RoyalChick]

I hate to say this but I think Lulu is dying.
She has been OK rather than great today but nothing alarming. In the last 30 mins she has really gone down hill.
I have brought her in to the cool - it is really hot out there - and have given her calcium (though I cannot feel a stuck egg).
She is breathing really fast so I am also trying to get her to take some electrolytes and sugar water.
It is too late for the vet’s iffice
This is not looking good.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Gucci Does It Again, on Film!

I just love all the support she gets from the other 2. It is so sweet to watch them work together!

So wonderful to see Glynda leading, watching out, and Lady Featherington being Gucci’s personal guide!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I hate to say this but I think Lulu is dying.
She has been OK rather than great today but nothing alarming. In the last 30 mins she has really gone down hill.
I have brought her in to the cool - it is really hot out there - and have given her calcium (though I cannot feel a stuck egg).
She is breathing really fast so I am also trying to get her to take some electrolytes and sugar water.
It is too late for the vet’s iffice
This is not looking good.

This is so strange, to be reasonably well and then suddenly not. The heat could be at fault. No emergency number for the vets?

 

[RoyalChick]

This is so strange, to be reasonably well and then suddenly not. The heat could be at fault. No emergency number for the vets?

No. And they are a good 40 mins away. Not sure she will last.
This is exactly what happened to Elizabeth - but she was more than two and a production breed so it didn’t seem so surprising. Sad but expected.
Lulu is still a baby.

 

[Ponypoor]

Yes, Hazel had a split in her beak and part of one half broke off. @Shadrach was very helpful with tips on gluing the split and then very slowly filing (over weeks) to smooth the end out. The worry was the split, that it might not stop splitting, not the end so much. He also linked to an article on the very sensitive nerve endings in beaks, this is good information and will help you with Mr. Pompei. He may take care of it with wiping his beak on stone as @RoyalChick notes. If he can successfully eat I would do nothing unless it is growing in badly.

Normally I wouldn’t touch it but it was very obviously hooked/long.

I think that the small nips I did are all that is needed. It can always be revisited in a few months time. Meanwhile he does use the brick pavers in the barn to scrape his beak on, and he is digging in the sandy soil.

I was worried he wasn’t able to actually ‘pick’ up particles with his beak. I am still not convinced that he doesn’t have some sort of mal formed beak as it looks more like an eagles beak than a bird that pecks.

 

[BY Bob]

I've had one of the most craziest full on days for years today. Ive been stuck in a cupboard for one . My bread mix has gone insane on me and I couldn't get it dry enough too mold it into shape then to ad even more bother I dropped the ruddy lid on it

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I hope that things go better for you moving forward.