Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Coco, my only laying hen at the moment, is happily sleeping in the house in the chickens room. On pillows and a full crop. She’s becoming my best hen besides Xzit. Way to go girl! Sleep tight sweet dreams

She wasn’t sleeping. She was calling out to me for company. What a great Barred Rock, knowing exactly how to manipulate me! So now we’re listening to music together. (George Harrison) my sweet lord.

 

[featherhead007]

She wasn’t sleeping. She was calling out to me for company. What a great Barred Rock, knowing exactly how to manipulate me! So now we’re listening to music together. (George Harrison) my sweet lord.

I love my home. The chickens are welcome freely in the house. I’m sure they love the freedom and attention they get from their chicken daddy. Especially this girl here Coco. She’s smarter than some people I know, I’m not kidding.

 

[Ponypoor]

Home again, our best friends from Bastrop visited. They recently lost their rooster so I gave them Cholo 4. Lety gave them 4 bantams from our larger bantam flock, 2 Sebright hens and 2 Sebright/game roosters. Mike and I caught 5 nice bass from our pondView attachment 3653708View attachment 3653712

Did you throw those bass on the bbq?

Good you’re home safe, hopefully for a few days now.

 

[Ponypoor]

So, when taking chick pics it was about 67F.

Sun down, light not, starting Sherlock's last walk...View attachment 3653709

Quarter mile and .....View attachment 3653710

And temp down to....View attachment 3653711It's going to be chilly in the morning....

View attachment 3653713Grow those feathers! (He's actually looking pretty good)

Yes he sure is glorious, brrr looks like you’re going to be chilly like here, I closed the window in the Hen House for poor Marty who is bald still, going to be 7C (45F) brrr!

I may need to make her a better hen sweater she doesn’t seem to be wanting to moult out all the old broken feathers and grow back new ones.

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh and bless my wife for allowing me to sleep 14 hours last. It was a blessing along with seeing our friends today.

Wish I could sleep like that

So now that Cholo 4 is rehomed, will you give Goldie a new friend ?

 

[Ponypoor]

Now wait a minute here. I advocated for a pullet from the power couple. It is not MY fault, glares *Marty*, that they did not comply. It is also not my fault that you only ended up with one chick from that power couple. You know we have to repeat and try again next year.

She’s trying to kill me off here! I know it!

Nope sorry not happening, too hard with the Roos

But, I do plan on getting a couple Dark Brahma and a couple Marans, sort of leaning toward the French Cuckoo variety… Hoovers carries both and if I have any broodies I’ll shove a couple of each under them next summer.

I figure by then my oldsters won’t be laying at all, and lonely Red may not be here, I worry about her. And I have noticed this year now that the silkies are not laying every day anymore, maybe every other day. Which I am ok with. The Azurs are my layers right now.

 

[Ponypoor]

Nice and warm there too I suppose. Well I shouldn't complain it was 20C here today. I didn't need my sweater.

Wow yes crazy for Oct! Now they say El Niño weather pattern means you guys get a mild winter, Great Lakes also yay! That means me too!

Hopefully the chooks get to spend a lot of time outside and hopefully no early snow or freezing rain here.

I was thinking of putting the mesh over the rooster run but with winter coming I dont want it aging from snow or freezing rain.

 

[Ponypoor]

@ChicoryBlue,
Here is one of the sources to give comfort about eating eggs after treating a hen with enrofloxacin (Baytril).
After 9 days the level of the drug found in eggs was below the allowable level of the drug for human consumption in Europe.
So the vet saying never eat the eggs is just plain wrong.
I think I didn’t eat the eggs for a week - the facts say I should have waited 9 days.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924857997000186

I wonder what that level was?? I will have to read that article.

I wait 10 days for the ivermectin I have seen anything from 7 days to 1 month mentioned. But the level I dose with is so low and it exits the system so fast that I feel 10 days is safe.

 

[Ponypoor]

@ChicoryBlue,
Here is one of the sources to give comfort about eating eggs after treating a hen with enrofloxacin (Baytril).
After 9 days the level of the drug found in eggs was below the allowable level of the drug for human consumption in Europe.
So the vet saying never eat the eggs is just plain wrong.
I think I didn’t eat the eggs for a week - the facts say I should have waited 9 days.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924857997000186

Great article, so to be safe then 10 days. Good to know. I would have waited 14 days for antibiotics, but good to know the detectable levels waned at 10 days.

 

[Ponypoor]

@ChicoryBlue,
Here is one of the sources to give comfort about eating eggs after treating a hen with enrofloxacin (Baytril).
After 9 days the level of the drug found in eggs was below the allowable level of the drug for human consumption in Europe.
So the vet saying never eat the eggs is just plain wrong.
I think I didn’t eat the eggs for a week - the facts say I should have waited 9 days.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924857997000186

Here is withdrawl for eggs in NZ - 10 days for ivermectin

https://thisnzlife.co.nz/dont-eat-that-egg-the-lowdown-on-withholding-periods-for-your-chickens/#:~:text=Don't%20eat%20eggs%20for,residues%20may%20affect%20them%20too.