Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

Fluffy butt pics

Nimbus, Quartz, and Granite

Hector and Cumulo (maybe that's Numbus: can't tell without the head) and a beakbombing Quartz

And the lovely Chia (after her adventure)

 

[bgmathteach]

A Happy Anniversary

Today is the 8th anniversary of Patsy and Lilly coming to live with us. Rescued from living under the porch.

Check out this stuff that Daisy calls grass!
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They were some very lucky ladies to be rescued by you!

And lovely ladies, too.....*even if one WAS 'Miss Iron Beak"* I still miss seeing them on this thread - Patsy in particular stole my heart , though Lilly's antics and squirrel chasing were alway entertaining.

 

[bgmathteach]

Here are the current ages for everyone, oldest to youngest:

1. 5.3 years old Hattie
2. 4.7 years old Aurora
3. 4.1 years old Sydney
4. 4.0 years old Phyllis
5. 1.5 years old Glynda & Lady Featherington

Hattie is still doing well on metacam. We are down to about every other day. If I don't get her before the sun comes up then the likelihood of me catching her is almost zilch as she zips around. She still has the pressure sore on her chest. She does not spend much time roosted. She is down on the coop floor eating most nights. I think sleeping on the coop floor is causing the sore to remain. The nights are too long for her now. She has to get up and eat and will not reroost after she gets down.

Can you do like @RoyalChick did and cut a cushion donut to put around the pressure sore? I know that that isn't such an easy spot to wrap - end up wrapping around the whole body - but maybe is you are able to do that -and have it 'last/stay put' for a couple days - then a couple without it - then wrap again with cushion donut - so it ends up being roughly half the week with the donut and half the week without it - do you think that might be enough to help it along with healing??? I'm thinking wrap it, and maybe it will last a couple of days - remove it if she hasn't managed to get it off on her own ... and a day or tow later - rewrap it with the donut? I do know she is already wary of you due to the dosing...but maybe a night time catch to dose and wrap???


Sorry, that is all I have for suggestions....other than lots of bedding. Poor dear girl, I am sure that is unpleasant - though the metacam is probably helping with teh pain from that, too - just not with healing it.


Does she sleep in a nest box, or the coop floor? Maybe you or Mrs ByBob could get a small hunk of memory foam, wrap it with an old towel or pop it into an old pillow case...put it into the nest box and cover with a bit of bedding?? I once got 'display dog beds" for free (the kind that are about 1' wide by 8" deep - just so people could see/feel what the real one would be like) and was able to put 2 together to use for my Roo a year ago when he was having those neurological problems - made him a comfier bed.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Here are the current ages for everyone, oldest to youngest:

1. 5.3 years old Hattie
2. 4.7 years old Aurora
3. 4.1 years old Sydney
4. 4.0 years old Phyllis
5. 1.5 years old Glynda & Lady Featherington

Hattie is still doing well on metacam. We are down to about every other day. If I don't get her before the sun comes up then the likelihood of me catching her is almost zilch as she zips around. She still has the pressure sore on her chest. She does not spend much time roosted. She is down on the coop floor eating most nights. I think sleeping on the coop floor is causing the sore to remain. The nights are too long for her now. She has to get up and eat and will not reroost after she gets down.

Can you do like @RoyalChick did and cut a cushion donut to put around the pressure sore? I know that that isn't such an easy spot to wrap - end up wrapping around the whole body - but maybe is you are able to do that -and have it 'last/stay put' for a couple days - then a couple without it - then wrap again with cushion donut - so it ends up being roughly half the week with the donut and half the week without it - do you think that might be enough to help it along with healing??? I'm thinking wrap it, and maybe it will last a couple of days - remove it if she hasn't managed to get it off on her own ... and a day or tow later - rewrap it with the donut? I do know she is already wary of you due to the dosing...but maybe a night time catch to dose and wrap???


Sorry, that is all I have for suggestions....other than lots of bedding. Poor dear girl, I am sure that is unpleasant - though the metacam is probably helping with teh pain from that, too - just not with healing it.


Does she sleep in a nest box, or the coop floor? Maybe you or Mrs ByBob could get a small hunk of memory foam, wrap it with an old towel or pop it into an old pillow case...put it into the nest box and cover with a bit of bedding?? I once got 'display dog beds" for free (the kind that are about 1' wide by 8" deep - just so people could see/feel what the real one would be like) and was able to put 2 together to use for my Roo a year ago when he was having those neurological problems - made him a comfier bed.

I like this idea for cushier bedding, maybe it only needs to be near the feed and water area. Though memory foam doesn't work well under 50F. Maybe just a regular type of foam. I was only thinking a deep layer of straw might help.
A belly apron, a reverse hen's apron... I'd like to see that, made me chuckle. Kind of like a tuxedo front, a dickey! Formal wear for hens...

 

[RoyalChick]

Can you do like @RoyalChick did and cut a cushion donut to put around the pressure sore? I know that that isn't such an easy spot to wrap - end up wrapping around the whole body - but maybe is you are able to do that -and have it 'last/stay put' for a couple days - then a couple without it - then wrap again with cushion donut - so it ends up being roughly half the week with the donut and half the week without it - do you think that might be enough to help it along with healing??? I'm thinking wrap it, and maybe it will last a couple of days - remove it if she hasn't managed to get it off on her own ... and a day or tow later - rewrap it with the donut? I do know she is already wary of you due to the dosing...but maybe a night time catch to dose and wrap???


Sorry, that is all I have for suggestions....other than lots of bedding. Poor dear girl, I am sure that is unpleasant - though the metacam is probably helping with teh pain from that, too - just not with healing it.


Does she sleep in a nest box, or the coop floor? Maybe you or Mrs ByBob could get a small hunk of memory foam, wrap it with an old towel or pop it into an old pillow case...put it into the nest box and cover with a bit of bedding?? I once got 'display dog beds" for free (the kind that are about 1' wide by 8" deep - just so people could see/feel what the real one would be like) and was able to put 2 together to use for my Roo a year ago when he was having those neurological problems - made him a comfier bed.

Love the idea of a memory foam mattress for Hattie.

 

[Marie2020]

They are looking lovely, but what’s with that feather on Princess ???

She's molting and has been for weeks.

I may try to get that off her if it doesn't go later

 

[Marie2020]

Love the idea of a memory foam mattress for Hattie.

Until it's covered in

 

[Marie2020]

A Happy Anniversary

Today is the 8th anniversary of Patsy and Lilly coming to live with us. Rescued from living under the porch.

Check out this stuff that Daisy calls grass!
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From being in a insecure life too chickens paradise

 

[Marie2020]

I have just bought 12 free range Bluebell araucana eggs.

 

[Marie2020]

For all those that incubate their eggs