Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

That is very fun and creative looking

 

[Sylvester017]

You can carefully repair a cracked beak with superglue. I use the gel kind when I needed to - the other is too runny to get it right and NOT someplace you don't want it on a squirming chicken. Just be sure to not get it in his mouth - don't want him to get 'tongue tied!' LOL

I have, fortunately, been able to find multi packs of 'single use' size super glue (well, a knock-off, but same difference). I have used it to repair a beak, and also used them as sutures - sort of- to hold skin together over a wound. (that is what I sued on the crop of crop girl with her surgery. Not on the outside skin at that time, though - just in case!

If chicken beaks continually grow ~ wouldn't the super glue impede normal beak regrowth? I suppose it depends on the severity of the crack?

 

[Sylvester017]

It seems stable, I gave it a bit if a soft wiggle, and it seems to be in place. I’ll pick up some glue tomorrow though just in case. Gosh he is just the living end, he looks like he has been through the Boer War…

His beak needs to be trimmed back again and I had planned on that this weekend but now I will need to wait to do this. I’ll check it next weekend and see how it is. Maybe give it a slight trimming. Just shape it a bit. If it’s stable enough.

Me, I wouldn't trim or file. As long as he is eating & drinking ~ which most chickens can do even w/crossed beaks.

 

[Sylvester017]

So you are a professional nipple tapper too? Wooohooo!

Yep, a born & bred farm child w/ all the good memories coming back to me ~ hard to live in a city now Raising chickens & tapping water nipples for them now is one of many satisfying moments in my day .

 

[Sylvester017]

An egg, is a terrible thing to waste !

Since there's no egg withdrawl w/Tylosin we scrambled the egg & fed it back to the treated birds rather than waste the eggs. A hen works hard to lay an egg & every one that's layed is a precious gift...but that's me cuz we don't have a glut of egg layers so each egg is priceless.

 

[Sylvester017]

Yup - let’s not go there….. very eggspensive to replace a 100’ hose…..

I bought one of those X-hoses that expands and then shrinks when the water drains - best thing ever! Wish I had bought one yrs ago! When it’s drained it’s very light, I gather it up and throw it in a bucket!

Great invention. I can fill up the chooks water bowls and hoses’ buckets easy peasy.

In our brutal summer heat we had a couple expanding hoses that broke & leaked irreparably! Got tired of them not lasting more than 2-3 months & bought the Bionic stainless steel hoses going on 2 yrs w/o breaking now. We have to be careful handling the metal that gets hot from sun but run the water for 30 seconds & the cool water works to cool it to handle it. Cars can roll over these hoses & they don't break ~ altho we'd never do that on purpose! We have 25, 50, & 75 ft hoses.

Love these video on how to roll up hoses or cords with no kinking. It works!

 

[Ponypoor]

If chicken beaks continually grow ~ wouldn't the super glue impede normal beak regrowth? I suppose it depends on the severity of the crack?

We do a similar thing with horses’ hooves, but use heavy duty epoxy to repair bad splits and cracks. They grow fine. It takes a year to grow out a hood fully; wonder how long it takes a beak to grow out….?

 

[Marie2020]

Hello @BuckMtn

 

[Ponypoor]

In our brutal summer heat we had a couple expanding hoses that broke & leaked irreparably! Got tired of them not lasting more than 2-3 months & bought the Bionic stainless steel hoses going on 2 yrs w/o breaking now. We have to be careful handling the metal that gets hot from sun but run the water for 30 seconds & the cool water works to cool it to handle it. Cars can roll over these hoses & they don't break ~ altho we'd never do that on purpose! We have 25, 50, & 75 ft hoses.
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Love these video on how to roll up hoses or cords with no kinking. It works!

What I like about the X-hose is that I can gather it up and throw it in a bucket in the feedroom. No more chicken poopy covered hoses!

I still need to sweep the barn floor before I haul the hose out so I don’t drag it through poops, and I need to make sure I don’t get in any on it from additions to the barn floor post sweeping usually that’s cecal poops!

But have to say I like this hose, wish I had bought the 100’ one though, I have the 75’ hose.

 

[Ponypoor]

Me, I wouldn't trim or file. As long as he is eating & drinking ~ which most chickens can do even w/crossed beaks.

It is super long and hooked like a hawks beak, makes it difficult to preen and groom.