Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[bgmathteach]

shra tax

And, a loaf!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Originally someone picked one of his pin feathers and it bled like a stick pig!!! Blood everywhere, and since then they have pecked at his head constantly. Poor old man

We cannot get blucote here it is banned as a carcinogen (ya don’t go there), so I don’t have anything but an aluminium spray that is shiny when coated on a wound - oh yes yummy for chickens to peck at I am sure!

I about busted gut laughing when the feedmill suggested this foolish ‘redcote’ . I told them “oh ‘yis bye now’ (say that with a Newfoundlander accent), that’s going to go down well with the little savage beasts, I spray that on a bird all that will be left are the bones!”

Guess they don’t know chickens love the colour red!

So I don’t have anything to coat the beast with. Sheesh! If I weren’t so far a drive to the border I would make a run to the TSC down in Niagara and pick up a whole slew of stuff. Oh well….

Risking SHRA - would blue food coloring help, like the stuff to do frostings or Easter eggs with? Even if it’s not waterproof it is safe to eat and might do something helpful.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Risking SHRA - would blue food coloring help, like the stuff to do frostings or Easter eggs with? Even if it’s not waterproof it is safe to eat and might do something helpful.

SHRA

 

[featherhead007]

Good morning everyone! It’s still mild here, the rain has stopped, but it’s foggy. Hoping to 1) get the electrical corrected now that I know where to look, 2) see if the chooks want outside at all, 3) give Mr P his new punkrock look.

Missy is a nut! This is how she likes to sleep.
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Foggy or moggy?

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Does anyone know what's going on with Agathae?
She's been tilting her head back, puffing her neck, opening her beak wide, shaking her head, and then going back to normal. Why is she doing this?

Sounds a lot like a crop adjustment, but more to it if she keeps it up. Something might be stuck there making it uncomfortable. Observe her first and give her some time, maybe a hour or so to clear it, if that’s what it is. If it persists, as someone else suggested, I’d gently feel around her crop and neck. If she keeps it up I’d look in her beak too.

 

[notabitail]

Someone posted a night mode photo here.

I went on a trip and we drove through a area with no bright lights. So I took this using night mode.

 

[notabitail]

Sounds a lot like a crop adjustment, but more to it if she keeps it up. Something might be stuck there making it uncomfortable. Observe her first and give her some time, maybe a hour or so to clear it, if that’s what it is. If it persists, as someone else suggested, I’d gently feel around her crop and neck. If she keeps it up I’d look in her beak too.

It seems like she clears it up, but it returns throughout the week. I've had other hens do the same thing, but it never came back. She keeps having it pop up randomly throughout the week so it's been bothering me.

I'll pass this info onto @CCsGarden because she acts as chicken doctor here and maker of desserts (that mostly come out but sometimes don't).

 

[ChicoryBlue]

They all seem to have some amount of dirt back there, except for Widget, who hasn't started laying again since brooding, then molting last fall.

The almost 4 year old hens haven't started laying yet (Middle laid a few eggs, then stopped again...?) have varying amounts of poopy butt.

I was just wondering if switching feed might change this? Did anyone ever notice a change in feed changing the amount of poopy butt in their flock, better or worse?

Not feed as much as how much they drink and certain food extras affect the texture of poops. Like lots of water produces wetter, loose diarrhea-like poo which won’t roll off even oiled feathers that well. I think most see that during hot weather in their flocks. Mealworms make more cecal-like poops, maybe because of the fat content.

 

[rural mouse]

And maybe something bitter on that blue, that they don't like the taste of.

@Ponypoor

 

[Marie2020]

Does anyone know what's going on with Agathae?
She's been tilting her head back, puffing her neck, opening her beak wide, shaking her head, and then going back to normal. Why is she doing this?

Princess used to do the shaking her head and the beak opening. I used frozen coconut oil and a little olive oil on wet crumble.