Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[SimpleJenn]

And Jingle took that personally…View attachment 3954209

Another mean mug!

 

[Sylvester017]

Yeah. She gave me some filthy looks. She thought I was going to release her.
Today everyone is confined to quarters because a mother raccoon with two babies is wandering around. They can easily get in the run by dropping down from the trees, so I am keeping everything locked up for the day.
Nasty soggy day anyway.
Tomorrow I will try another Tassels release. But I am not optimistic. You never saw a critter run so fast as she does back to her nest.
Tomorrow I will try and get video.

We currently have two broody Silkies stealing other Silkie eggs to sit on. DH locks the broodies out of the coop now but whenever he opens our kitchen sliding door both broodies run up to him & then run for the coop to tell him to open the door! Of course he doesn't then distracts them w/ treats. Everyone is on a different schedule here!

 

[Logar]

Goldie loves the rain so much. While everyone else is sitting under “their bush”, just a bush right beside my house that they love for some reason, she is out prancing in the rain

But Goldie also somehow managed to get a tick right above her eye so I have to figure out how to get that off (any ideas? ). They were supposed to eat ticks, not feed them

 

[SimpleJenn]

Goldie loves the rain so much. While everyone else is sitting under “their bush”, just a bush right beside my house that they love for some reason, she is out prancing in the rainView attachment 3954215View attachment 3954216
But Goldie also somehow managed to get a tick right above her eye so I have to figure out how to get that off (any ideas? ). They were supposed to eat ticks, not feed them

My mom uses a wet cotton swab, go in circles around the tick making sure it's always touching the sides of it. It makes the ticks pull out apparently.

 

[Logar]

My mom uses a wet cotton swab, go in circles around the tick making sure it's always touching the sides of it. It makes the ticks pull out apparently.

I feel like Goldie would try and eat the cotton swab. But I will give it a shot. Thank you!

 

[featherhead007]

And Jingle took that personally…View attachment 3954209

Jingle takes everything personally!

 

[featherhead007]

My mom uses a wet cotton swab, go in circles around the tick making sure it's always touching the sides of it. It makes the ticks pull out apparently.

Now we’re tickling ticks

 

[Logar]

I feel like Goldie would try and eat the cotton swab. But I will give it a shot. Thank you!

I was right, and any time I got it to touch her face she would jerk her head away. I ended up just having to grab it and let her pull it out by moving her head. Thankfully it wasn’t in very deep and came off very easily.

 

[RoyalChick]

Goldie loves the rain so much. While everyone else is sitting under “their bush”, just a bush right beside my house that they love for some reason, she is out prancing in the rainView attachment 3954215View attachment 3954216
But Goldie also somehow managed to get a tick right above her eye so I have to figure out how to get that off (any ideas? ). They were supposed to eat ticks, not feed them

I am surprised one of her sisters hasn’t eaten the tick!
I use one of these.

 

[TOMTE]

I am surprised one of her sisters hasn’t eaten the tick!
I use one of these.
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These things are great. You can also use needlenose tweezers

You need to be really careful about removing ticks. Grab them by the head, or as close as you can get, NOT the body, and pull directly out/up. Grabbing the tick by the body forces it to regurgitate anything its consumed, including any tick-borne diseases. Startling or killing them by dousing/dabbing in rubbing alcohol or prodding at them might also make them regurgitate

After removing the tick, dropping it in a little cup of rubbing alcohol will kill it pretty much immediately