Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Cocorico.......just sayin

 

[ValarieF]

Love that chunnel idea! I will definitely do that with the outdoor run, I have an old cedar rail that I have laid along some bricks they like to roost on. I will make that higher for them when I get home (make it more permanent). I have a tree with a crook in it that I am surprised some haven't flown up onto! It would be a simple matter of hopping way up into the branches then haha!

That gave me an idea to make one out of my extra wood

 

[featherhead007]

Brunch?

I was planning on serving them all a tuna casserole for lunch

 

[ValarieF]

 

[featherhead007]

Give a chook a mouse and the rest go hungry.
Teach a chook to cook, and everyone eats!
(Goes something like that)

 

[Ponypoor]

I was planning on serving them all a tuna casserole for lunch

appetizer of mouse?

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Yes, it could work with poultry if you are able to flush deep enough into the would. With the duck, she had one tear and a coupleof puncture wounds. I stitched the tear.

Honestly, I don't think I was able to flush deep enough into the puncture wound - and it was the first puncture wound I had dealt with. I later had a sort of abscess/puncture wound that was slightly bigger that I could sort of stuff with thin strips of gauze ( soaked in betadine and then coated with honey. Flushed & repacked daily) That worked quite well! But the tiny (diameter) wound on the duck - plus the thick abundance of feathers making ot more difficult - just wasn't possible.. If something like that happens again, I would probably cut/pluck feathers surrounding the wound, and possibly even cut the wound itself open a bit for better flushing..though I hate cutting them - so not sure I could do that WELL...especially given my assistant (hubby is not really the best at holding them - but he tries!)

They are all so nerve-wracking! I just do the best I can, and, hopefully, learn more each time. Do wish there was access to an avian vet - if for nothing else but suggestions and possibly anti-biotics!!

You know, @BY Bob - you said you like teaching. Maybe you (?with help of vet or something?) could develop the equivalent of EMT training - but for chickens and backyard pets. I would certainly pay to take that - especially if you were teaching it!!!

Bite wounds are the worst! The vet thought we should try the lavage but it was possible it would abcess because she couldn't tell what the very back of the wound was like it was so deep. She told me to gently jam the nozzle in as far as it would go though, and squirt with some force. Millie did not like it at first but complied, while growling, and it was a many-towel affair with several squirts of about a cup of liquid. But interestingly after the first two days Millie was fine with it, I think she felt some benefit. Or her pain level was lower by then - it is amazing how well they heal, the nine lives saying is sort of real.

Your ideas on what you'd do next time are helpful, thanks!

I like your idea for Bob, I would take that course too! Do you have to be certified in some way to do even an informal course I wonder?

 

[Ponypoor]

Give a chook a mouse and the rest go hungry.
Teach a chook to cook, and everyone eats!
(Goes something like that)

do what I did - throw it to them and see who wins! (just be careful you don't fall off the top of the fence like I did haha)

 

[featherhead007]

Caturday:
“who farted?”

 

[TX Chick Noob]

CATURDAY!

Frogger sleeping in DH coat

And keeping me company