Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Debbie292d]

Lazy Sunday

No pony Sunday photos too lazy to run out to the paddock

But you can enjoy this feature film brought to you by ponypoor industries

Keep it up, Kelly, and soon you'll be competing with Chickalandia lady! Loved it!

 

[Debbie292d]

I hope we can’t get mite infestation from the internet, because this is bad, real bad!

If the internet bit, OMG we'd need something stronger than permethrin; perhaps some Rumchata! I don't drink much, but if I do, I have a nippy of that!

 

[Ponypoor]

The turkey is ready and the kids are late but Mike n Cathy will arrive soon. Turkey is out of the fryer so I can take it easy now.View attachment 3995084

Looks great!

 

[Ponypoor]

Our place is at 3500 feet. The village and our property are on a very steep slope, so just an hour walk gets us much higher in the mountain.

The chickens on the picture don't free range, they are enclosed in a yard. Some of my chickens do free range on our property : they stay surprisingly close. I would say they don't use more than one third of an acre, and they have five or six places where they hang out most of the time.
Of all the chickens who ranged here at some point, only two young pullets ever ventured below the chicken's yard, all the others only go above or stay on the same level ! I've wondered why, and I suppose they want to be able to come back very quickly to their safe place in the chicken yard.

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Spectacular!

Thanks for sharing.

 

[Ponypoor]

Pony Sunday

For pony Sunday I give you Bad Truly. She has once again broke her stall guard chain and is loose.

Now the one good thing about Truly is that when she does get loose, she returns to her stall to poop and pee

I guess I will head to the barn early and do chores - Everyone have a splendid evening!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Not I, and I have seen others on here with chickens and Guinea fowl (PtR has both).

I know my friends had chickens and raised a bunch of turkeys for the freezer one year.

Did they say the reason not

Here’s the reply in Facebook - a hen was gasping and stretching her neck, the I think others in the flock too, and it was suggested to be a respiratory problem, and I asked about gapeworm, that the poster didn’t say what their flock makeup was, could be turkeys in there. That’s where he added this bit. Btw I wasn’t suggesting gapeworm is acquired by infection!

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Alice Pantaleoni no turkey or pheasant in her flock. Turkey and peafowl shouldn't be kept with chickens anyway because some chickens are asymptomatic carriers of blackhead disease, histomonaisis, which has a high mortality rate in turkey and peafowl. With that being said, turkey wouldn't have been the reason they had gapeworm, it doesn't transmit like that, they have to eat infected prey, like snails, worms aand slugs to get infected. They can pick it up from feces or directly ingesting the eggs, but those methods are also rare, unless your friend kept an untidy pasture and coop area. The animal would have to be heavily shedding the eggs. So I don't believe the turkey was the culprit, I believe they ate infected prey in your friends case. Either way I wouldn't suppose gapeworm in this case or any case of gasping. Respiratory or sour crop is usually the culprit.

 

[featherhead007]

If the internet bit, OMG we'd need something stronger than permethrin; perhaps some Rumchata! I don't drink much, but if I do, I have a nippy of that!

I was very careful in 2020-2021 that Covid was not a joke. So I wore a mask when I went online and washed my hands afterwards!
Kidding.

 

[Ponypoor]

Here’s the reply in Facebook - a hen was gasping and stretching her neck, the I think others in the flock too, and it was suggested to be a respiratory problem, and I asked about gapeworm, that the poster didn’t say what their flock makeup was, could be turkeys in there. That’s where he added this bit. Btw I wasn’t suggesting gapeworm is acquired by infection!

Interesting, I have heard it this Histomonasis online but never heard of anyone with their flock affected.

I must read up on this….

 

[Debbie292d]

Here’s the reply in Facebook - a hen was gasping and stretching her neck, the I think others in the flock too, and it was suggested to be a respiratory problem, and I asked about gapeworm, that the poster didn’t say what their flock makeup was, could be turkeys in there. That’s where he added this bit. Btw I wasn’t suggesting gapeworm is acquired by infection!

On BYC, I'm not shy about nicely disagreeing with someone if I know for a fact they are wrong, but not if it's just their opinion, as we all have a right to ours.

But on Facebook, out come the know-it-alls who usually don't.

On BYC, I have one person on ignore. On Facebook, I've blocked probably 300 or more, just because they do-not-know-it-all, and in fact, are full of b.s. most of the time parroting something they read somewhere else and try to discredit anyone else's opinion or trying to help.

It's said on Facebook, ask a question and it's like a poll.

 

[featherhead007]

If the internet bit, OMG we'd need something stronger than permethrin; perhaps some Rumchata! I don't drink much, but if I do, I have a nippy of that!