Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

Cesario update:

Circumstances meant that we couldn't get Cesario off the roost in the dark and he was absolutely miserable about being grabbed unceremoniously! It made me wonder if he instinctually knew that most often when a cockerel gets grabbed in that way, that his life is over.

I was so pleased that my husband was willing to do a two hour drive to come and help me with Cesario, the cockerel that he was adamant that we should not keep! Maybe Cesario has won him over! So far, he is a very good boy.

We soaked his feet and discovered a hard piece of mud/bark wedged up in the webbing above his toes. I removed that and gave him a bit of a blow dry since it's well below freezing outside.

We took him back out to the ladies and he was still limping a bit. My husband wondered if he was just used to favouring that foot and will adjust.

I just checked on him again, but he is sitting in a nest keeping one of the pullets company while she lays her egg.

He sounds like a lovely lad. I am pleased you found out what was hurting him.

 

[Marie2020]

I ain’t got No chickens, none to tuck me in at night. They are all inside the coop and left me alone, on my own, to cry

 

[Marie2020]

Wow that’s a amazing!

Lots of eggs around here, eggs are a dime a dozen

Give some to me please.

I never got paid for any of the eggs I gave away. Only one person appreciated them the rest acted as if they were doing me a favour.
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[Marie2020]

But my BIL was over here and he help remove all the boards, he told me next time to use 6” nails (ya he was being sarcastic!).

We created a huge mess - which I then had to clear away myself but it was worth it,

I swear, you are so enjoyable to listen to. I really think you should start your own TV show

 

[Marie2020]

I think it'd take me a month or so to clean that mess up.

It'd be a good six months here

 

[Marie2020]

Yes, I need to trim them she is having issues seeing now

She'll have to come out with me. I know a lady that can help her

 

[Marie2020]

Pictures from the other day.

Have a good Sunday everyone

 

[Ponypoor]

I swear, you are so enjoyable to listen to. I really think you should start your own TV show

I’d have to tone down the swearing

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Pictures from the other day.

Have a good Sunday everyone

Those two look like they are doing well and looks like rain there for you.

My kiddos stayed in yesterday as the wind was so fierce, I didn’t want to be cold with the wind
blowing through the barn.

 

[lightm]

Two out of four started laying, and they were the one Gaston has begun mating with about two weeks ago.
We still have very warm and beautiful weather ; last year the pullets were hatched three weeks later and Piou-piou was the first to lay on the 10 of November.
Based on comb development only, I would have thought Laure was ready to lay two weeks ago- but nothing yet ! So I guess it's not a 100% indicator (just like early popping wattles when they were two weeks old chicks didn't make them all boys thankfully!)


I don't see a split either ! It's someone from our village who said that. And I have had two or three people comments on BYC about his comb. I certainly hope it's natural because I would feel bad if we had missed a wound serious enough to reshape completely his comb. Yes, he got pecked several times, and he lost a tiny bit of wattle, but it always seem to make a clean scab and heal quickly.
I like it's shape too, I think it looks like he is wearing a jester hat.

I would say exactly what we told @knoturavggrl , if he is still limping tomorrow , begin by crating him for 12 hours and assess.
If you pick him off the roost once he is asleep, you can maybe just feel if the leg and foot is swollen / hot to the touch ?

This reminds me that I haven't shared here @RoyalChick's brilliant idea for bumblefoot, which has changed my life. Well, maybe not, but really made it easier. Once the chicken is over the worse of the infection but the foot is still swollen and/or has a scab, and especially in the case when it's taking time to heal and you have many chickens to deal with, instead of the usual 20 mn soaking with Epsom salts using a corn dressing and vet wrap, we switched to a cuttable to size colloidal dressing, which keeps the wound humid. This means you don't have to soak the foot for long since the dressing will do the job of keeping it moist to draw out the yucky stuff, just wash it, apply betadine (or you can pour it in the bath which is what we did) , towel dry and put the colloidal dressing and a bit of vet wrap just to be sure it doesn't fall off. Way quicker to do, the colloidal dressing can be left on up to three days and the part covered will stay clean, and just as efficient, BUT you need to be sure that you are not dealing with staph infection anymore. I can assure you that when you have four chickens and six feet to tend it's a revolution . Thanks again RC .

Picture for a long post. My partner calls Merle petit diable, little devil, and she does look pretty demoniac today.
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Thank you and RC. I have this post bookmarked.

Great picture!

 

[Ponypoor]

Pony Sunday

Reenie and Curly

Lulu

Truly

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