Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Themellowyellows]

You have lovely hens!

Thank you!

 

[lightm]

Good guy your DH! Those boxes look very useful for chickens in a variety of ways. Nice!

@SimpleJenn
I agree! These boxes are tasty looking to me (a hoarder and a chicken slave...)

 

[Carters Chick House]

You have the equivalent of Panacur in that bottle you shared on the other thread.
Panacur is a brand name. The active ingredient in Panacur is Fenbendazole.
You have three worm treatments in your bottle. One of them is Albendazole.
Fenbendazole and Albendazole are essentially the same thing. The hint is in the name! They are both powerful against roundworms but not against tapeworms. Both can be used in both people and animals. Both are relatively safe.
In your bottle of wormer you also have Pirantel/Pyrantel (which acts against the same worms as Fenbendazole/Albendazole) and Praziquantel which acts against tapeworm.

I was given panacur to get rid of the worms in my flock of 20. It's a white liquid that I give orally for three days. It's what my vet uses. What a challenge. First day I had more on the chickens than in them. Maybe today I will do better.

 

[Ponypoor]

That explains where the smoke we've been getting hit with is coming from. The local fires aren't enough to produce all of it. The air quality map...and it just keeps going...

The close fire here as of the last update I saw had been entirely surrounded by a bare earth fire break. Still under a hundred acres. Last night's wind may have changed that, but updates are available yet today. The last update does say it's 40% contained, and they're working on cooling th smoldering hot spots.

Glad it’s getting under control. I think the one in Jasper is something like 10,000 acres

 

[Ponypoor]

I was given panacur to get rid of the worms in my flock of 20. It's a white liquid that I give orally for three days. It's what my vet uses. What a challenge. First day I had more on the chickens than in them. Maybe today I will do better.

Ummmm

Should be able to mix it in their water 3ml to a gallon of water, make up fresh daily for three days.

Repeat same in 2 weeks. This is what I do to treat my kiddos.

Call your Vet and ask them if this is the case, far simpler than trying to dose individually

 

[Themellowyellows]

Okay so, I wanted to snuggle one of my RIR, and she was acting really calm, she started to look at my face closely, and then she decided eyes were going to be her new favorite food and pecked on my eye lid and pulled! I was like, "Excuse me! I cant give you food without a eye!"


Yesterday, I was going to take one of my new hens to free range a little, and she started running away from me.... I was seriously running around like a chicken without my head... We all know chickens dont just run in straight lines.........

 

[rural mouse]

Fires, flood and rising temperatures have made so many beautiful places difficult to live. I'm not sure how many of these fires, especially the giant ones in the US, are spontaneous or due to human stupidity / criminal gestures ? It's terrifying to think the damage a cigarette or a still smoking fire can do.

Some if the added challenge is the terrain. Rough mountains, pine trees, lots killed by pine beetles, and regulations preventing roads getting into the roughest parts to remove most of the dead wood. Even a lightning strike can and will start fires under those conditions and with all the fuel available, get too big/too strong to do anything about before anyone knows its there.

Montana, for instance, has a total area of 147,040 sq mi (380,800 km2). For reference, the British Isles, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland), and over six thousand smaller islands. (From Wikipedia) have a TOTAL area of 315,159 km2 (121,684 sq mi). That's 25,000 sq mi (60,000+ km²) more land than the British Isles, at least 1/3rd of which is rough mountain blanketed in evergreen forest.

British Isles population 71,891,524 (2019)
Montana population 1,122,867(2022)

That's a population density of 7.09/sq mi (2.73/km2) vs 216/km2 (559/sq mi) for the Isles. That's a lot or turf to cover. Add in how rough the terrain is, the sparseness of roads to access, and how dry it is....lighning is just as likely as human cause for fires in the back country (inaccessible).

This is the season for thunderstorms. ANY storm coming through now carries a high chance of lining with it....and lasts until mid Sept/frost, whichever happens first.

That is just Montana. The entirety of the Rocky Mountains is like that. Alberta (due north, half Rockies) is also burning....again....in the back country. Area there: 661,849 km2 (255,541 sq mi)
Population: 4,368,370. Population density: 6.82/km2 (17.7/sq mi).


Any way you look at it, wildfires, compounded by dead forest (and not being able to clean it out for whatever the reason) make for big problems. On the plus side, many of the coniferous evergreens don't open the cones unless toasted by fire. Trees die and species don't regrow unless the area has been torched by fire first. It's devastating in the midst of it, but is cleansing, and renewing in the aftermath. They went through that with the fires of 1988 that burnt so much of Yellowstone National Park. Afterwards, they had tree species growing that hadn't been seen in the Park in 30 years.

Rant over.

Tax

Actually, this should probably have several pics

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Adele is either going to be a amazing rooster one day or a amazing momma. I have noticed for the last few days whenever I refill the feeder, give them a treat or even offer up worms Adele goes to it first. Then the first few bites instead of eating drops it in front of the other chicks to let them have it. I have no sound clues other then chick peeps to determine if there is tid-bitting involved. After Adele has alerted the other chicks to the food then she joins the mob and stuffs herself and no longer shares. None of the other chicks do this, including Reba who I think is actually Barbosa. It is a free for all for the silkies. I also notice that all the silkies try to snuggle up under poor Adele who is bigger but she seems to love it when they go to sleep. Either way these are traits I am loving to see so early in a chick.

 

[rural mouse]

Glad it’s getting under control. I think the one in Jasper is something like 10,000 acres

There's one near the state capital that's 15000+ acres. Looks like it's 95% contained. Doesn't mean it's out even if 100% contained. An ember can still float on the wind and stay alive to start one several miles away.

 

[Sylvester017]

You are right. That’s why I have Marie. Everything that I actually need of any importance, is 100 or more miles away. I find flying easier than driving such distances.

Let us know where we can find a cheap enough plane that flies and lands itself for those of us without pilot's licenses!