Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ChicoryBlue]

Fluffy Butt today, foraging in the sun in the coop run

Here's Tedi yesterday.

 

[Marie2020]

Rest up and feel better!

X two. Sleep is a great healer

 

[ManueB]

There is a new-ish thing, egg yolks from chickens raised with cats, if fed to the cats, neutralizes the allergen in their saliva/dander. You can buy it premade or of course grow your own.

I will have to use it if I ever get a cat again. I am pretty allergic.

TeeHee...I'll wait to see if it works for you before we consider it

My brother is allergic and after living 20 years without cats, he heard about these special cat kibbles with egg white for allergic people, and adopted two kittens from a friend of mine in September.
The kibbles work for him. He wanted to test whether it was a placebo or not, so he went back to normal kibbles in december for a while and the allergies flared back up immediately, and stopped when he switched back.

They don't completely suppress his symptoms but they make them much less intense and easy to bear.

My brother is also asthmatic, and since he is a paramedic his local doctor is a friend, so he had no problems convincing him to prescribe cortisone and a bronchodilator preventively before the cats arrived, in case the kibbles did not work. He said he did have to use them once early on, after he was on guard for three days and the kittens had explored all over the house but did not dare go outside on their own. Since then he has had no issue.

He gets them on Amazon and they cost four times the usual kibbles I buy. The process to make them with the egg white is apparently still under an exclusive patent, here at least, but I suppose at some point price will go down. I can ask him for the name of the brand if anyone wants.

I'm not able to keep up on your thread so I'm asking if you know why Chippie is having seizures?

Short answer is no, I'm not sure, but some options seem more likely than others.

Long answer will be a bit long, my apologies. She had seizures at the same time last year for a few days. I immediately started supplementing her with food rich in vitamin B and E and the seizures completely stopped.

So up to now I had assumed nutritional deficiency. However I've been giving her the supplement daily since all that time, so I'm not so sure now that is the reason.

The next two most likely possibilities are that she got pecked in a nerve sensitive place by another chicken, or that she has some kind of neurological issue getting old.

Other reasons I've thought about don't really fit. Marek, ALV, Newcastle can show up as seizures, but it wouldn't make sense that she stopped having them after a few days last year and was in great shape for a whole year. Epilepsy is a thing in chicken but it's genetic and shows up early. And it doesn't look like a stuck nerve as happened to Piou-piou because she has two very different types, one where on one side her wing and thigh goes paralysed and she runs in circle, and one where she flaps her wings uncontrollably.

My partner thinks it could possibly be linked to the fact that she may be approaching her laying season again, which usually lasts from march to mid may.

Anyway, the first seizure I saw was on the 7 February, and the last was Sunday, so I dearly hope she is over it again.
If anyone has any insight I'd be glad to hear about it !

19 June 2022, Chipie with 13 days old Merle, Léa, Gaston and Piou-piou.

 

[Ponypoor]

Well I get to be the bearer of bad news to Rosie this morning. No, it is actually good news, just to any student in the school district it shall be taken as bad.

Due to the Valentines weekend flooding which actually flooded 3 of the schools school has been closed indefinitely. There have been no NTI days as we used all 10 we are allotted back in January due to snowmagedon.

I got the email sent out this morning from both the school and the superintendent's office. School resumes back March 10 as of now. They are also extending the days by 30 minutes to make up for lost time. Spring break is now gone as well. As of right now, if they do not have to miss another day which is highly unlikely just saying, closing day is May 30.

I am going to say now they will get out sometime in June. We always get snow in March and sometimes up into April. It is rare, but we have had snow in May. March is also normally the time when we get the flash flooding. I pray that I am wrong and they do not have to miss another day.

I'm trying to look on the bright side and say with the extended closure maybe all the germs will have been killed and they can stop getting sick at the drop of a hat. Rosie's high school has been used and still is being used as a emergency shelter. It is probably still just as flu ridden as when it closed.

Wow that’s crazy, but same here, my cousins kids last I talked to her had 17 missed days in Jan and Feb. they will be going to school into July.

School yr here is from sept to end of June.

 

[featherhead007]

Guess who has chosen to hang out with me today:

 

[Ponypoor]

Guess who has chosen to hang out with me today:View attachment 4061142

They are very pretty

 

[SimpleJenn]

Up from a nap, here's a few chicks.
We had one marans that pipped on the side and needed help. I did what I could and put cornstarch on the yolk nub.


We have a brown orpington. Chocolate or jubilee, we shall seeee!

A mysterious heavy feather-legged bird that hatched from a brown egg (cochin Hopefully)
A bielefelder perhaps

And a dear sweet ayam cemani.
Will get more pics later, I'm slowly checking on them all between naps. They weren't kidding about 2 days after surgery all you want to do is sleep and stick your face in an ice pack.

 

[Ponypoor]

Up from a nap, here's a few chicks.
We had one marans that pipped on the side and needed help. I did what I could and put cornstarch on the yolk nub.
View attachment 4061198

We have a brown orpington. Chocolate or jubilee, we shall seeee!
View attachment 4061197
A mysterious heavy feather-legged bird that hatched from a brown egg (cochin Hopefully) View attachment 4061195
A bielefelder perhaps
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And a dear sweet ayam cemani.View attachment 4061194
Will get more pics later, I'm slowly checking on them all between naps. They weren't kidding about 2 days after surgery all you want to do is sleep and stick your face in an ice pack.

They are darlings

Hope the wee one does ok. It may take a few days for the yolk to be absorbed, you may want to keep it in the incubator until then so the others don’t get pecking at it.

I can’t wait to see the feathered leg baby grow up

 

[Ponypoor]

Up from a nap, here's a few chicks.
We had one marans that pipped on the side and needed help. I did what I could and put cornstarch on the yolk nub.
View attachment 4061198

We have a brown orpington. Chocolate or jubilee, we shall seeee!
View attachment 4061197
A mysterious heavy feather-legged bird that hatched from a brown egg (cochin Hopefully) View attachment 4061195
A bielefelder perhaps
View attachment 4061196
And a dear sweet ayam cemani.View attachment 4061194
Will get more pics later, I'm slowly checking on them all between naps. They weren't kidding about 2 days after surgery all you want to do is sleep and stick your face in an ice pack.

Rule of thumb is 72hrs post op for swelling to max out. Then after that it will subside.

I love that one you say is a Bielefelder so adorable! Love the colouring, but not a Bielefelder, they have chipmunk colouring and eyeliner. Could it be a Bielefelder cross? I am told my Cash is a Bielefelder but I think she is a cross. But then what do I know.

 

[SimpleJenn]

Rule of thumb is 72hrs post op for swelling to max out. Then after that it will subside.

I love that one you say is a Bielefelder so adorable! Love the colouring, but not a Bielefelder, they have chipmunk colouring and eyeliner. Could it be a Bielefelder cross? I am told my Cash is a Bielefelder but I think she is a cross. But then what do I know.

Could be! Hatched from a tan egg and clean legs. I think because it's still off-season she must have had her pens all together and these babies are mixed breeds. Which are always so exciting!