Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

So cute. Words cannot describe the first watermelon experience!
AWESOME

I’m going back in to town tomorrow and buy a watermelon for my chooks

 

[featherhead007]

I’m going back in to town tomorrow and buy a watermelon for my chooks

All of them are usually seedless these days, but thankfully the local corner store has watermelon seeds for sale…. Problem solved

 

[BY Bob]

Watermelon, grapes, & bananas have high sugar content is why birds love them. Watch your chicks bounce off the walls after their sugar rush

They already bounce off the walls. I couldn't tell a difference.

 

[BY Bob]

Marble and I fed the chickens earlier. I came out with the bucket, he looked at me, pecked the feeder, then the bucket, then looked back at me. Understood, my good sir! I filled the feeder and he proudly called everyone to the meal he prepared for them. he even let me stroke his wing without any fuss.
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What a great boy! He's a good one.

 

[featherhead007]

I had a really nice Sunday afternoon snack going, but Coco decided to steal all the roasted beef off my plate. All I had left was the carrots and the potatoes all rotten.

 

[featherhead007]

I had a really nice Sunday afternoon snack going, but Coco decided to steal all the roasted beef off my plate. All I had left was the carrots and the potatoes all rotten.

Augrotten?

 

[Sylvester017]

I posted about it on the emergency thread, but I want to get some of you opinions too in case you don’t see the thread…
One of my polish pullets got her head completely pecked open. Yesterday I thought I saw part of her skull, although I don’t have pictures from yesterday.
I put vetericyn and neosporin on it, along with gauze and vet wrap, but she got the bandage off.
I’m not sure what to do. I’ll cull her if she’s in pain and I can’t help her, but she seems to be doing fine for now.
I just don’t want flies or gnats to lay eggs in the wound.View attachment 4120644View attachment 4120641View attachment 4120643

Isolate any sick or injured bird from the flock immediately so the others don't do additional damage. Then of course apply any necessary treatments until the bird is truly healed. I pray your sweetie recovers

Silkies & Polish have open skull bone which makes them more susceptible to head/brain injuries.

POLISH open skull

SILKIE vaulted open skull

NORMAL top-closed chicken skull

 

[Ponypoor]

What do you make of this? I have never experienced anything like this before.
I went to collect eggs.
The box was occupied by a very comfy looking Piglet who unleashed the wrath of a thousand devils when I reached under her.
She drew blood!
Broody you say? Maybe. But remember she is the hen that gave up being broody when she figured it was interfering with meal times.
Anyway, I grabbed the eggs I could get easily and left.
Imagine my surprise when I saw the camera pick up this video immediately after I left!

I was worried why she was shaking like that but she seems fine and is currently bathing.
The egg is from Tassels (green) and has a rock solid shell. You can see where Piglet pierced the shell with her beak, but the egg only cracks open when Piglet drops it.
It is like Piglet was trying to prevent me from stealing it by removing it from the nest box!
How crazy is that?
They haven’t even eaten the egg yet!

I think she was resettling her feathers after her monumental feat of carrying the egg.

I have never seen anything like it! How extraordinary!

 

[Ponypoor]

I posted about it on the emergency thread, but I want to get some of you opinions too in case you don’t see the thread…
One of my polish pullets got her head completely pecked open. Yesterday I thought I saw part of her skull, although I don’t have pictures from yesterday.
I put vetericyn and neosporin on it, along with gauze and vet wrap, but she got the bandage off.
I’m not sure what to do. I’ll cull her if she’s in pain and I can’t help her, but she seems to be doing fine for now.
I just don’t want flies or gnats to lay eggs in the wound.View attachment 4120644View attachment 4120641View attachment 4120643

I would keep polysporin and copious amounts of it on that wound. Try again to put a dressing on it. And as Sylvester017 says keep her in isolation.

Poor wee kiddo. Good luck keep us updated.

Sending hugs to her and you.

 

[Sylvester017]

My update is a sad one. The Mamasita from next door, with the two babies, well both babies have died and she has now been hanging around with my other chooks.

Any ideas why/how/when the babies died? Maybe momma was too young/inexperienced to care for her chicks?