Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Nope. Marek’s doesn’t live in people. You can only transmit Marek’s if you visit chickens with the disease and don’t change your clothes etc. before sitting with you chooks.

I have my chicken clothes and separate house clothes and footwear

 

[LozzyR]

Little Eli has problems
Eli has been having issues this week and I keep delaying sharing here as I have spent most days unsure if she would pull through.
It has now been almost a week and it is unclear how this will resolve and I am sharing now so you know what she is dealing with and can send good thoughts her way.

About a week ago Eli became egg bound. I spent a day and a half giving calcium, inserting lubricant, and frantically calling vets. Finally she laid an egg and was much better for a whole day.
Then it happened again. This time she spent two days straining and crying out. I have put the video in a spoiler as it is a bit distressing.

Spoiler: Eli having trouble

Then on Tuesday, after a morning of straining, she laid two eggs. TWO eggs!
One of them was regular sized, the other weighed 3 ounces.
The 3 ounce one was a monster of an egg and had two yolks. These photos give a sense of the comparison of the two eggs - the smaller one is a regular size egg.

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Poor little girl. No wonder she was in distress!
As well as the straining I also noticed that her legs got weak. She couldn't jump up and spent 2 nights roosting down on the roost. Babs agreed to stay with her and Bernie was very well behaved.

I really hoped that the issue was resolved once that monster egg was out, but sadly she is egg bound again now. She had a good day today running around outside, but yesterday she was in the nest box straining for 2 hours, and at 4:30 this morning she flew down from the rafters in the dark and spent another 2 hours straining in the nest box.

Having talked to multiple vets there is not really anything I can do for her except hope for the best.

Poor little Eli.

I’m so sorry RC. I think I saw someone else mention it but a Suprelorin implant could help with that.

 

[MaryJanet]

Little Eli has problems
Eli has been having issues this week and I keep delaying sharing here as I have spent most days unsure if she would pull through.
It has now been almost a week and it is unclear how this will resolve and I am sharing now so you know what she is dealing with and can send good thoughts her way.

About a week ago Eli became egg bound. I spent a day and a half giving calcium, inserting lubricant, and frantically calling vets. Finally she laid an egg and was much better for a whole day.
Then it happened again. This time she spent two days straining and crying out. I have put the video in a spoiler as it is a bit distressing.

Spoiler: Eli having trouble

Then on Tuesday, after a morning of straining, she laid two eggs. TWO eggs!
One of them was regular sized, the other weighed 3 ounces.
The 3 ounce one was a monster of an egg and had two yolks. These photos give a sense of the comparison of the two eggs - the smaller one is a regular size egg.

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Poor little girl. No wonder she was in distress!
As well as the straining I also noticed that her legs got weak. She couldn't jump up and spent 2 nights roosting down on the roost. Babs agreed to stay with her and Bernie was very well behaved.

I really hoped that the issue was resolved once that monster egg was out, but sadly she is egg bound again now. She had a good day today running around outside, but yesterday she was in the nest box straining for 2 hours, and at 4:30 this morning she flew down from the rafters in the dark and spent another 2 hours straining in the nest box.

Having talked to multiple vets there is not really anything I can do for her except hope for the best.

Poor little Eli.

That sounds a little like Mary's hernia that blocked her eggs from coming through. Once the hernia was repaired she laid 3 eggs in a day.

 

[featherhead007]

I finally got Jaffar’s attention. He’s enjoying a movie with me. I really needed him beside me today. (The movie is “enter the dragon- exit the chicken”) kidding. But we’re having lunch

 

[bgmathteach]

Can I catch insanity from PoonyPoor, possibly?

Only avian insanity - and only if you visit her through BeakBook, which actively seems to transmit all sorts of avian afflictions, including Royal delusions!!

Infectious avian assumption tax:
(or should that be 'consumption tax")

The chooks happily demolishing the needles on a few of the small branches I cut for them from the huge fallen limb.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Only avian insanity - and only if you visit her through BeakBook, which actively seems to transmit all sorts of avian afflictions, including Royal delusions!!

Infectious avian assumption tax:
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The chooks happily demolishing the needles on a few of the small branches I cut for them from the huge fallen limb.

I thought I saw somebody eating a dried pine needle here, but wasn't sure! I have been putting in a few bunches of dried pine needles collected in the Fall to add to the texture and mix in the run litter. They seem to sort of disappear and this would explain it! I didn't know they liked it. I can certainly get them some green ones.

 

[Ponypoor]

Bob, are you going to let her get away with this?

Ignore him Bob

Meanwhile they enjoyed their 'tears' of scratch grain and whatever those bug things are I bought them

 

[RoyalChick]

I thought I saw somebody eating a dried pine needle here, but wasn't sure! I have been putting in a few bunches of dried pine needles collected in the Fall to add to the texture and mix in the run litter. They seem to sort of disappear and this would explain it! I didn't know they liked it. I can certainly get them some green ones.

I didn't know they ate pine needles either. I use dried ones as bedding (when I have the energy to haul the cart over to the white pine trees!). I haven't noticed them eating any of the bedding ones.

 

[knoturavggrl]

Quite cold today here, off on with flurries. I went out to throw the bucket heater back in their waterer and in they came to roost for the night. I don’t usually get to witness the roosting process. Peanut got pecked but that was it maybe it’s to chilly for any roosting antics but overall a fairly pretty peaceful tonight.

Cinnamon preening before bed

The whole crew looking at me like we can make a spot if your staying.

 

[Ponypoor]

Could I be giving my chooks Marek’s RC? Or maybe I got it from them?

Nope, different herpes virus, there are actually many many of them. Look at it this way, there are thousands of bird species, they are all birds but not all are chickens.

The only thing you are catching from them is sore ankles from the too of yours .