Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ChicoryBlue]

Hey everyone.

I think it is time for another update on my grandmother. As you all know she entered hospice care the first week of January. The nurses, nurse aids and the doctor overseeing it are wonderful people and are angels. The nurse aids are out 3 times a week to help with bathing and the RN is out every Thursday to take an assessment, document changes and touch base with the doctor. This coming Thursday will make 3 weeks since the latest diagnosis which has been difficult to come to terms with. She is in Cardiogenic Shock. Nothing can be done to cure this, it is part of the end stage congestive heart failure she has. I had never heard of this so I googled and fell into the rabbit hole of too much information out on the internet and had a breakdown. Our dear friend @Ponypoor has been a great listener and someone I can talk to. There is not much we can do for grandma except try to pull as much fluid off of her as possible and keep her pain levels under control. No matter how much we up her lasix, added 2 different fluid pills on top of it it has not gotten any better. There is mottling on her lower legs that is spreading indicating her organs are starting to fail and she has been having extreme difficulty breathing. Her pain has also gotten way out of hand. This morning we called the hospice nurse out. It was decided and the doctor agreed it was time to start her on morphine. It can also help calm her breathing and hopefully alleviate the smothering. She was started on it this afternoon and for the first time in a while she is truly resting. Me and mom, we feel helpless watching her go through this.

Hugs for you and your whole family.

 

[Ponypoor]

So get three of one breed. Then another three of one breed next year.

Yes I am planning on either 3 buff Brahma or maybe the silver laced Wyandotte. Cold and heat hardy, developed in New York and named after the Wyandotte people of Ontario and new York. One of the most winter hardy of all breeds.

Then again there is the buff Orp and the light Brahma…. Gonna need a bigger barn ha!

 

[Ponypoor]

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Or what day it even is?!
Yes. All the time..
I was trading notes with a friend who just retired a couple of years after me - and we both agreed that waking up in the morning and having no clue if it was the weekend or not was a really special feeling.

One of those golden girl moments

Safe and warm baby

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh! I just noticed something bad.... She lost a toe! Is there anything I can do about this at this point?

I don't know how I could of missed something like this!
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My poor Cluckie....
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I would clean and dress it to keep that exposed bone clean and dry. Is she a light Brahma? And is it the actual toe or just the nail - compare it to her other side foot and toe Also those scales look odd, I would give a spray of insecticide horse spray just Incase she has mites - they look ‘scaly’

She is a beauty though , maybe I will get light Brahma

 

[Galaxy_rules]

Hey Galaxy

Hi!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Oh! I just noticed something bad.... She lost a toe! Is there anything I can do about this at this point?

I don't know how I could of missed something like this!
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My poor Cluckie....
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She will be fine once it is fully healed.
Owly lost part of hers at a few months old. Looked like it had been cut clean off. I assume she got stepped on by one of the horses.

The legend herself Momma hen is missing all the toes on one foot. She tangled with a hawk and survived before she was able to be tamed. She hobbled away from it with a mangled foot and the back of her head scalped. I have often wondered if some of the toes could have been saved if she had only let us catch her then. Within 2 weeks the damaged part of her toes fell off and left her with a club, err stump. It has not stopped her from living her best life. Every clutch of chicks she has reared was after that injury. She has only accidently stepped on 2 of her chicks killing them very soon after hatching. She flogs to protect her chicks and uses her bad leg like a club. It hurts, trust me. She roosts high in the trees and can dig holes with the best of them.

 

[CCsGarden]

Rest in peace my dear Victoria!
The most funny and photogenic chicken!
Died this evening

She is also on my chicken chart.

 

[RoyalChick]

Rest in peace my dear Victoria!
The most funny and photogenic chicken!
Died this evening
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So sorry you lost her.
Rest in peace pretty girl.

 

[Ponypoor]

Rest in peace my dear Victoria!
The most funny and photogenic chicken!
Died this evening
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Oh no! I am so sorry to hear she has passed away. Do you know what happened?

 

[Ponypoor]

Okay. I cleaned up the wound with some betadine iodine and dressed it with Neosporin. It was already scarred over, and didn't start bleeding, so she should be fine for now.

I noticed that Henny Penny lost the nails on both of her outside toes, I was trimming her nails a couple weeks ago and noticed this.

Chickens are pretty tough creatures, I am interested to see how your gal heals.