Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

I’m a mess. I’m off to Colorado tomorrow , to set straight (what I considered a plutonic relationship) but Hannah seems to think that I’m the only guy in the world.
I’m actually more interested in a romantic relationship with a lady in Virginia Beach. I have known Harriett for years. I don’t know how Sir Jaffar does it? Managing to keep sanity while he has seven ladies. I can’t handle even one !

 

[bgmathteach]

Thanks for the info. It is a puzzle. You don’t do anything different from what I was doing!
Maybe I was unlucky and I should just try again.
It wasn’t as if it never worked. It was just that about half the time it got moldy.

Did you read the link to the fodder article I posted - they tell how to disinfect the seed to make it less likely to mold. That said, I am having VERY GOOD LUCK with the Black oil sunflower seeds - If you recall previously I had some trouble with mold which is why I went to fodder (in soil) in the first place.

 

[featherhead007]

All the better to kill snakes and mice with

If Hetty grows into those big feet, she’ll be a huge chook!

 

[featherhead007]

I’m a mess. I’m off to Colorado tomorrow , to set straight (what I considered a plutonic relationship) but Hannah seems to think that I’m the only guy in the world.
I’m actually more interested in a romantic relationship with a lady in Virginia Beach. I have known Harriett for years. I don’t know how Sir Jaffar does it? Managing to keep sanity while he has seven ladies. I can’t handle even one !

Chooks tax:

 

[knoturavggrl]

Thanks for the info. It is a puzzle. You don’t do anything different from what I was doing!
Maybe I was unlucky and I should just try again.
It wasn’t as if it never worked. It was just that about half the time it got moldy.

I am sure there are multiple ways to avoid the mold (some already mentioned here). I can share my experience. For me it seemed to have to do with the substrate. I switched to coconut coir blocks to do my micro-greens/sprouts and suddenly no more mold issues.
I also found that for the small scale I was doing they were very convenient. Just add water and it expands like crazy.

https://www.amazon.com/Back-Roots-O...qid=1710168605&sprefix=cocconu,aps,350&sr=8-3

 

[rural mouse]

Storm Queen is a beauty, and look at those feet on Hetty!

If any 1 of the detective crew turns out to be a boy.....Pinkerton, Cadfael, Monk, Morse, Clouseau are all possible name changes

 

[rural mouse]

If Hetty grows into those big feet, she’ll be a huge chook!

Hetty is the same breed as Hector. I expect her to he on the largish side.

If she turns out to be a he....should end up close to same size. (That's a 2 gallon rubber water bucket behind his tail)

 

[bgmathteach]

So, I would appreciate some thoughts.

Yesterday, while everyone was free ranging and I was cleaning out the 'field' coop & pen, the ducks and geese got EXTREMELY noisy. I come out and around..and see a fox running with a duck in his mouth. I give chase, yelling....duck slips and he stops to try to re-grab her...and gets spooked by me as I was gaining on him (only because he was stopped, though) and takes off without her.

I manage to catch her (not an easy task) to check her over. Seems the only wound was he had punctured her artery in her wing - right at the elbow. I cleaned it, but it bled like a sun-of-a-gun....I had trouble getting it to stop. I managed to get it wrapped and the blood stopped...but I can't put her out with the others as she will most definitely get the wound wet with dirty water (ducks dirty their water within minutes of getting fresh, clean water.) So, she is in the house - and I don't have space suitable for ducks such that I can bring a friend in.

Here is the problem: She hasn't eaten at all, and only had very little to drink. I am sure she is in shock, but I don't know what to do. (And, no, my ducks aren't cuddly - so I'm more frightening than comfort )

Any thoughts? I really don't feel I can risk an infection by putting her out with the others - at least not for a few days until the wound has scabbed over well.

 

[Ponypoor]

So, I would appreciate some thoughts.

Yesterday, while everyone was free ranging and I was cleaning out the 'field' coop & pen, the ducks and geese got EXTREMELY noisy. I come out and around..and see a fox running with a duck in his mouth. I give chase, yelling....duck slips and he stops to try to re-grab her...and gets spooked by me as I was gaining on him (only because he was stopped, though) and takes off without her.

I manage to catch her (not an easy task) to check her over. Seems the only wound was he had punctured her artery in her wing - right at the elbow. I cleaned it, but it bled like a sun-of-a-gun....I had trouble getting it to stop. I managed to get it wrapped and the blood stopped...but I can't put her out with the others as she will most definitely get the wound wet with dirty water (ducks dirty their water within minutes of getting fresh, clean water.) So, she is in the house - and I don't have space suitable for ducks such that I can bring a friend in.

Here is the problem: She hasn't eaten at all, and only had very little to drink. I am sure she is in shock, but I don't know what to do. (And, no, my ducks aren't cuddly - so I'm more frightening than comfort )

Any thoughts? I really don't feel I can risk an infection by putting her out with the others - at least not for a few days until the wound has scabbed over well.

Holy Dinah!

Oh those foxes well I would keep her in a dark quiet location for sure; can you put her out with her coop mates but in a dry enclosed location? Like inside the coop? If not then she should be fine where she is.

Also I know that the wound bled like crazy, just make sure the dressing isn’t so tight as to reduce blood flow through the limb (I know you know this), if it were an artery the bleeding would be spurting not just flowing. Was it doing that? Spurting as with the heart beat? If not then it’s a vein and should be fine now. Artery could be more tricky stopping flow.

But keeping her quiet and non mobile and in a clean location is correct. Too easy to get it infected or bleeding again.

Poor wee girl.

Fluids would be my top of mind next - can you tube feed her? Have you tried sugar water?

Gosh - you must have been just on an adrenaline rush there! That’s it, i am not letting my bunch out anymore.

 

[Ponypoor]

Crazy weather here

This morning it was winter

Now it’s spring again

Weather tax

Baby Bert and Betty (from Nov 2023)