Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Oooohh, you should have to pay SHRA tax more often is this is what you pay with!!! I just love ?Nimue's head pose!!!

Is she checking out her shadow there?

Yup. That's Nimue. I have no idea what she is looking at.

 

[BY Bob]

Hi everyone. I am way behind but I have a freshly brewed pot of coffee and am going to play catch up tonight. Before I head 2 weeks back I wanted to give a update on my 4 little fuzz britches. Every since I heard them referred to as that it has stuck in my head. They are 3 weeks old now and are thriving. If they keep growing at the rate they are I think in another week if the temps finally warm up they can start making field trips outside during the day. So far this is a unusually wet and cool spring. Calypso aka Splashy, well, now she has me questioning if she is truly splash at all. Her feathers are coming in white. She could very well be a dominate white. I will not truly know her coloring for a few more molts and there is still time for those splash marking to make their appearance. Truthfully speaking, if she is white I am 100% ok with it. I have been wanting a white silkie for a while now. The 2 partridges, one is a blue partridge the other is a black based partridge. I will again have to wait a few more molts to see their final adult colors and patterns. The only one I am for sure of on a adult color is Bluey. I think she is going to be about 2 shades of a lighter grey then her daddy Davy. Similar to my cochin girls I think.

Here are some pictures of them I took a few minutes ago after cleaning their brooder. They are already working hard at wrecking it.
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My gosh they are adorable.

It's good to have you back. I've missed you.

 

[Ponypoor]

Lovely happy chickens!
I had some jungle explorers today too.
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Your jungle is way more awesome than mine! I am going to let the brush along my fence line grow back in, hopefully this will help prevent them from flying over onto my neighbour's property.

 

[BY Bob]

Caturday

Well Éowyn decided it was time to meet the Phyllistines in person yesterday. Much like with Gucci she started by sniffing Niamh's head poof. Niamh then followed her around for a bit.

They Éowyn lay down perhaps thinking someone would lay next to her like Gucci used to. This was when Nimue decided to check her out.

Here's some video of them getting to know each other.

As you can see it all went swimmingly. Cats and chickens hanging out together.

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh no! I hope it's not something serious and she perks up over night.

She is still subdued, and when I was getting hold of her to give dose her with the antibiotics, she was struggling and regurgitated milky fluid from her crop - she had just drank quite a bit of water.

I dosed her with some Tylenol also and put her in with Mr P's group. Someone is having very liquid brown feces - is it her? I don't know. But anyways I am dosing her in case she has picked up some sort of bug - it's been rather wet and cool here so who knows what pathogens are lurking around.

I call her one tail. After molting she didnt regrow all her tail feathers. ( I have another one called no tail)
Anyway she was great on Tuesday, causing trouble as always and then Wednesday morning she just laid around, drank water but didnt eat.
Same yesterday, and last night she must not have felt she could get up on the roost because she was on the floor under the roost this morning with poopy hinny, she didnt stand up to do business.
she got a bath, she couldnt stand herself up. I had a leghorn that acted like this once and she died in the night.

She has been drinking electrolyte/probiotic water today, but I had to put her in a crate so she wouldnt drown herself. she was drinking and it wouldnt go down cuz her crop was already full of water.
I did turn her and drained what I could out of her crop, it was just water and did not smell.

so while I was giving everyone a bath I kept her in the crate. I dont think what she has is cotangent.

Her comb looks fine, not shriveled and pale,
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Sounds like Sweetie, not sure what’s up with her.

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh no! I hope it's not something serious and she perks up over night.

She is still subdued, and when I was getting hold of her to give dose her with the antibiotics, she was struggling and regurgitated milky fluid from her crop - she had just drank quite a bit of water.

I dosed her with some Tylenol also and put her in with Mr P's group. Someone is having very liquid brown feces - is it her? I don't know. But anyways I am dosing her in case she has picked up some sort of bug - it's been rather wet and cool here so who knows what pathogens are lurking around.

I will also worm them all, she is likely loaded with heavens know what, so some Panicur is in the works for them - reminds me I must text my Vet to get some.

Lots of worry with these creatures - all of them.

 

[rural mouse]

Adventuring is exhausting

he's gotten his nose bloodied a couple of times recently. Comes home and demands his fish

 

[Ponypoor]

Caturday

Well Éowyn decided it was time to meet the Phyllistines in person yesterday. Much like with Gucci she started by sniffing Niamh's head poof. Niamh then followed her around for a bit.

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They Éowyn lay down perhaps thinking someone would lay next to her like Gucci used to. This was when Nimue decided to check her out.

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Here's some video of them getting to know each other.

As you can see it all went swimmingly. Cats and chickens hanging out together.

Awww - I wish Missy wasn't afraid of my gang. She would likely do that, just lay down and let them walk all over her hahaha!

 

[Ponypoor]

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Silly moggy! Tis the season for scrapping and carrying on.

 

[BY Bob]

She is still subdued, and when I was getting hold of her to give dose her with the antibiotics, she was struggling and regurgitated milky fluid from her crop - she had just drank quite a bit of water.

I dosed her with some Tylenol also and put her in with Mr P's group. Someone is having very liquid brown feces - is it her? I don't know. But anyways I am dosing her in case she has picked up some sort of bug - it's been rather wet and cool here so who knows what pathogens are lurking around.

I will also worm them all, she is likely loaded with heavens know what, so some Panicur is in the works for them - reminds me I must text my Vet to get some.

Lots of worry with these creatures - all of them.

I am also worming today. Aurora and Aster definitely have a worm issue.