Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

How do you trim his spurs? I just used the cat nail clipper on Piglet’s nails.

Yes, I have ones that do cats/small dogs nails. I shine a flashlight through the nail so I can see where the blood vessel is, I also do this with Mr P’s spurs.

His spurs are incredibly hard, I score the spur where I want to cut it back, using the nail clippers - they are not strong enough to actually cut the spur.

Then I use the horses’ hoof nippers to cut through the spur, then I file it down. I try to get someone to help me with Mr P when I cut back the spur, but last time I did it myself.

 

[Ponypoor]

Puffins, blue-footed (or red) boobies, albatross, swans, pelicans, auklets, gannets, cormorants.... (can't wait to see what you come up with for this)

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Puffins: Newfoundland chicken.

 

[kattabelly]

Because you’re experiencing chick withdrawal?


You do want to do it sooner or later, and it’s good to plan and talk out everything involved.

No walk-in coop or run, so what does everyone do when it’s really bad weather, like heavy rain? Would chicks have a safe dry environment then?

They have different spots they can shelter in. The whole plot is a work in progress as I'm slowly fixing and rebuilding and changing things. Summer weather here is changeable and not all that warm by most people's standards, and chicks got through that ok. It's not a question of whether they'd be ok so much as if I want to create the extra work for myself.

 

[Ponypoor]

I think you need to revisit the meanings of the word "duck"

Another duck….

 

[Ponypoor]

Parrot ducks

Fashion-conscious ducks

Lucky ducks

Attack ducks

Very Hungry Ducks

Derpy ducks

Diving ducks

Semaphore ducks

Bearded tree duck

 

[Ponypoor]

4 wheel drive duck

Duck really fast!

 

[Ponypoor]

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She has wing gunners

She’s getting ready for Hallowe’en - she wants to be the Millennium Falcon!

 

[kattabelly]

Puffins: Newfoundland chicken.

We have puffins here too, the local name for them is Tammie Norrie.

Some of the proper serious birdwatching types are really scathing when non-twitchers get excited about them

 

[Ponypoor]

So glad it seems you have weathered the sickness fully intact.

So far so good, I have been hitting them hard with everything, Tylosin, Tylenol and if they are really wheezing some prednisone.


I am almost 100% sure it’s Mycoplasmosis - and this means that I can never bring any other chooks in here, or rehome anyone as it’s likely the flock is now carriers of this. Of course a Lab test would be required to say whatnot is, but because I have been dosing everyone with Tylosin it would likely skew the test results. Not to mention the cost of getting it done here as all Labs here require a Veterinary requisition to do Lab work. Even though Mycoplasmosis is not a reported infection (apparently it seems to be so prevalent that they just call it endemic now), but they still need a Vet req.

I may discuss with my horse Vet when he gets home (at a horse show all week) and see what he says, but it’s still the Tylosin thing, I am not willing to take a risk of waiting to do a swab and not giving the antibiotics. I’ll discuss with the Vet though. And get an exact cost.

 

[Ponypoor]

We have puffins here too, the local name for them is Tammie Norrie.

Some of the proper serious birdwatching types are really scathing when non-twitchers get excited about them

There is a huge colony on Baccalieu Island (pronounced bacaloo and is the Portuguese name for Cod fish) near where my family is from.

Snow duck