Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[LhickenChicken]

Probably not. I think she’s just running the course towards the tail end of her high-production life. I could give her all sorts of table scraps such as garlic and I wouldn’t expect a different outcome. As it is, it appears to have cleared up on its own, the only treatment being making sure she got some food.

The one thing I wish I could give her a lot more of is sun bathing. She is the gal in my flock who most appreciates it!

Does she have salpingitis?

I have had two hens now that had it. This Saturday I did a necropsy on Lady Nacho, and yep, the first thing I noticed was she had a really hard abdomen. Cut it open, and her oviduct is just a huge lash egg. Ew. It was very big. That's the second hen that I found to have salpingitis (after Ginger).
I took some pictures but don't want to share them, they are a bit disgusting. But it might come to that.

 

[Sally PB]

Does she have salpingitis?

I have had two hens now that had it.

How long after you first knew about it did she pass?

My little Pip has it, and I need to wrap my head around how long she might have. I've read 6 months, average, but reading other threads, it seems some live on a lot longer.

 

[LhickenChicken]

Pip has laid another membrane-only egg, and it's a big one. And another lash egg, bigger than the first. I didn't take pictures. Button, another one of the pullets, really likes to eat eggs when she finds a broken one, and I had to get it out of there intact.

I'll be starting another round of lotus leaf extract and calcium citrate.

I'd seen Pip in her favorite nest box, and she might have laid a normal egg, but I don't know for sure.

Oh no! I hope your treatment works. It doesn't matter what I have tried for salpingitis, it maybe stops for a month or two (and the hen lays eggs) and then it gets bad again. I did some research on it and found that there is no "effective" treatment, though pretty sure that they're talking about conventional treatments (drugs, antibiotics, etc.) or surgery.

 

[LhickenChicken]

How long after you first knew about it did she pass?

My little Pip has it, and I need to wrap my head around how long she might have. I've read 6 months, average, but reading other threads, it seems some live on a lot longer.

So with Ginger, she got sick around end of July, beginning of August. I treated her with different herbs and a little amoxicillin, and she got better and laid some eggs. About December she went downhill fast and eventually died on her own.

With Lady Nacho, she got sick beginning of January, and this Saturday I decided she had suffered long enough and put her out of her misery.

Ginger lasted around five months, and Lady Nacho about three. (Lady may have survived longer if I had not put her out of her misery.)

 

[featherhead007]

So with Ginger, she got sick around end of July, beginning of August. I treated her with different herbs and a little amoxicillin, and she got better and laid some eggs. About December she went downhill fast and eventually died on her own.

With Lady Nacho, she got sick beginning of January, and this Saturday I decided she had suffered long enough and put her out of her misery.

Ginger lasted around five months, and Lady Nacho about three. (Lady may have survived longer if I had not put her out of her misery.)

 

[featherhead007]

I would like to thank Dakota for enjoying our morning together, with Sir Jaffar, and our glorious breakfast. And thank her again for her smelliest deposit of excrement on our dining room table!
See if I invite her to breakfast again. Red headed little brat!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

You want more chooks? Isn't 30 (or more?) enough?

Nope it is not. As far as my chicken math goes silkies count at 1/4 of a chicken due to their size.

 

[featherhead007]

Only thing worse than a big fat cecal poop is having to deal with the agents at my insurance company! I’m trying to renu the policy on the northern property, but they aren’t willing to cover, due to high California taxes and new liability issues. What a bunch of chicken poop ! I just hope that everyone gets an eye full of the coming eclipse.

 

[featherhead007]

Sir Jaffar just beak butted me. He wanted a Ritz cracker that I was eating. I gave him his own cracker.

 

[Ponypoor]

Have arrived! Near enough to Port Stanley to pull over and see the eclipse starting - mum is relaxing watching it