Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Desertvalleychickens]

Here are the Storm Chickens as they grow!

 

[notabitail]

For most chooks, 8-12 weeks, start to finish, but some take longer. Slow molters can take up to 4 months, but you don't notice it so much - except when they lose a tail feather or two - because it is so slow they don't look rumpled nor leave an explosion of feathers when they shake or dust bath. They just drop a feather here or there, and still look wonderfully coiffed.

Some molt information

Ours must be slow molters. They have been molting since forever. I'm slightly worried since they have been molting for ages. At least since July or June.

 

[Ponypoor]

Well I've got Baytril and it being the weekend and not hearing back from the vets and then finding the bubbles and all, I went ahead and started treatment, .06 2x/day. I figure the Terramycin oitment might help, but that the eyes issue could be mycoplasma conjunctivitis, because how dark they look, she's like a barred owl.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27211746
"Gave her .06 ml of 10% Baytril, she's .583 kg, so .1ml Baytril per kg = .0583 ml, I gave her .06 ml. "

I agree I would have done the same thing.

I am always very aggressive with any treatment of antibiotics, and unless I am 110% sure it’s a virus I will always err on giving antibiotics. And I always make sure to finish the full course.

A few times with the horses it has saved them much suffering I always want to start the meds even before any blood/fluid samples come back. Thankfully I have a vet who agrees with me.

Thankfully I have not had to treat the chooks for any bacterial/virus sickness, and just had to give antibiotics for Tuff’s salpingitis and Reds fly strick. But again I threw a whole bunch of meds at them.

Well I am so glad she seems a bit better I have my fingers and toes crossed for her

 

[rural mouse]

Ours must be slow molters. They have been molting since forever. I'm slightly worried since they have been molting for ages. At least since July or June.

That's what most of mine did last year. This year, started in September and drop feathers like crazy. My hard moulter, Nellie, didn't really moult until October. She's actually closer to 2/3 done at the moment.

 

[GregnLety]

Be safe, hopefully the temps have cooled for you. The colours here are really starting to show their beauty.

Upper 80s with lots of dry, breezy dust storms. Sorry that I forgot my Navage at home. At least I'm not downwind of a chicken meat farm.

 

[notabitail]

Cockerel is crowing again. At eight in the night! He got a lecture on why he should not be crowing this late.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I agree I would have done the same thing.

I am always very aggressive with any treatment of antibiotics, and unless I am 110% sure it’s a virus I will always err on giving antibiotics. And I always make sure to finish the full course.

A few times with the horses it has saved them much suffering I always want to start the meds even before any blood/fluid samples come back. Thankfully I have a vet who agrees with me.

Thankfully I have not had to treat the chooks for any bacterial/virus sickness, and just had to give antibiotics for Tuff’s salpingitis and Reds fly strick. But again I threw a whole bunch of meds at them.

Well I am so glad she seems a bit better I have my fingers and toes crossed for her

Thank you for your perspective and experience!

It was six days on Corid water with basically no improvement and eyes looking worse. I haven’t read anywhere that birds with coccidiosis don’t change for the better during treatment and that you have to wait 21 days for the damage to heal and sometime in there the birds start acting better? That doesn’t seem to be the usual course, just the sense I get in reading here on BYC. Or is it and I’ve missed that?

She had seemed a bit perkier when the vet saw her last Monday, then got worse and stayed at that lower level for the rest of the week. I think my attentions to her with water & food helped, but the eyes got worse. And I never got an answer on the eyes from the vet except she wants to hide and have darkness cause she doesn’t feel good. If blindness is really an outcome surviving extended illness with mycoplasma, then I wanted to head that off and not wait.

Peanut had bubbles in her eyes last November and treated for suspected mycoplasma. It was after exposure to the Buckeyes (and their run areas) at six weeks old or so, that now Anna is visibly sick.

 

[knoturavggrl]

I see your daughter has been spending time with him when this picture was taken! Lovely beads! He must be a good, patient/tolerant boy if she does that regularly!

Oh yes, both my kids decorate him all the time. He just rolls with it. Tango defies his breeds stereotype and really is the sweetest, smartest dog I have ever had the pleasure of owning. Couldn’t ask for a kinder hearted creature ❤.

 

[Ponypoor]

Upper 80s with lots of dry, breezy dust storms. Sorry that I forgot my Navage at home. At least I'm not downwind of a chicken meat farm.

Remember to use boiled water for the navage, you don’t want to introduce any bacteria or amoeba into your sinuses!

Really dry and dusty here also, I had the chooks out in the paddock catching grasshoppers - so funny watching them run after them. I had to catch a few for the youngsters they didn’t know what they were.

Then a lovely Praying Mantis scared a few of them hahaha. That’s a big bug for a petit chicken! I had Muffy running in circles in the paddock following me as I ran along stirring up the gras to scare out grasshoppers.

The horses were looking on being entertained, earlier I made a trip down the the old ale tree shared some with the big girls A good day had by all.

 

[Ponypoor]

Mugs Monday

From earlier in the evening, the three silkies up on the door - Tippy, Eli-too, and Muffy.