Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

@RebeccaBoyd @Ponypoor

Pour on ivermectin for mites/lice right? Buffy gave them to Marble...I need to treat them both before we bring chicks out there. Managed to catch the poor guy again and he's crawling with bite marks above his vent. He was clean when I got him home, and Buffy came from a free range flock.

And diatomaceous earth for the coop...

So sorry to read that you have mites. Treat all wood surfaces too. The little buggers like to hide in between wood floors and perches

 

[featherhead007]

I have Dakota in with me again. She’s doing better than my internet is today!

 

[RoyalChick]

With Tassels spending most of her time sitting in a nest, there is plotting and intrigue going on in the Palace.
This Princess - Calypso - who I might note has not started laying again after her winter break, is planning a Palace coup.
No, Alex, not coop.

She has really started throwing her weight around. Poor Piglet gets the brunt of it. Pooh, who I think is actually below Piglet in the pecking order, is cozying up to Calypso leaving her friend Piglet to be jumped on and pecked.
I feel I must put Tassels in broody jail sooner rather than later so the flock get their benign leader back.
Poor Piglet is roosting on her own and is wandering off to forage on her own during the day.

 

[Ponypoor]

DH said I should have just said "MR DUCKS...CM WANGS?...MR DUCKS. That's the short version of:

MR DUCKS
MRNO DUCKS
OSAR
CM WANGS?
MR DUCKS.

Not my fault, I was goaded into it.

Ummmm Greek to me!

 

[ValerieJ]

Ummmm Greek to me!

You have to imagine a backwoods hillbilly (are we allowed to say that these days???) with possibly some chew in his jaw, talking with his buddy:

Em are ducks.
Em are no ducks.
Oh, (y)es, (th)ey are!
See em wangs? (wings)
Em are ducks.

 

[notabitail]

You have to imagine a backwoods hillbilly (are we allowed to say that these days???) with possibly some chew in his jaw, talking with his buddy:

Em are ducks.
Em are no ducks.
Oh, (y)es, (th)ey are!
See em wangs? (wings)
Em are ducks.

Hillbilly is still a acceptable term as far as I know.

 

[featherhead007]

Hillbilly is still acceptable as far as I know.

Not the ones I know!!!
Quite unacceptable!

 

[Ponypoor]

@RebeccaBoyd @Ponypoor

Pour on ivermectin for mites/lice right? Buffy gave them to Marble...I need to treat them both before we bring chicks out there. Managed to catch the poor guy again and he's crawling with bite marks above his vent. He was clean when I got him home, and Buffy came from a free range flock.

And diatomaceous earth for the coop...

I used Equine bug spray. Worked like a charm, killed the bugs by the next day they were all gone. I also used it to spray down the hen house.

2 weeks later repeated.

The horse bug spray has permethrin and that other P named one.

Spray around the vent, belly and under wings and any place they have the lice.

Is it lice? Or mites?

You will see with lice that the feathers will have eggs attached.

There two feathers show the egg cluster on the shaft of the feather.

 

[Ponypoor]

You have to imagine a backwoods hillbilly (are we allowed to say that these days???) with possibly some chew in his jaw, talking with his buddy:

Em are ducks.
Em are no ducks.
Oh, (y)es, (th)ey are!
See em wangs? (wings)
Em are ducks.

That isn’t hillbillies that’s Newfoundlander talk!

 

[ValerieJ]

I used Equine bug spray. Worked like a charm, killed the bugs by the next day they were all gone. I also used it to spray down the hen house.

2 weeks later repeated.

The horse bug spray has permethrin and that other P named one.

Spray around the vent, belly and under wings and any place they have the lice.

Is it lice? Or mites?

You will see with lice that the feathers will have eggs attached.

There two feathers show the egg cluster on the shaft of the feather.
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That's awful!!! I've never seen anything like it! And I'm very thankful for that!!! What do you have to do to get rid of those eggs? Pull the feathers out??? I can't imagine.