Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

I'm really tempted to do the same. I just ate a BYM cockerel because he wasn't a great fit for my current flock right now and I don't have enough space to keep all the 'maybe's, but I do think he and my oldest pullet would make some great chicks. She's been a great layer for the short time she's been laying and they're both solid, meaty, nice-looking birds. I know her eggs are fertile and I've been saving and turning them for the last week or so, while telling myself I'm definitely not going to hatch any It's a stupid time of year to be starting chicks here, but I was already starting to get a small electric setup sorted for the plot (batteries initially, then solar to charge it in future) and the Brinsea heat plates run off 12V...

Someone enable talk some sense into me, please?

December chicks in Canada

 

[Ponypoor]

Big Doings at FBA

The fencing came down this morning and everyone met.

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I love this photo. It's like they are protecting Joy from me.

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Hattie really missed her house.
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After a day of meeting through wire......
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Awwww sweet success! I love it!

 

[Ponypoor]

Depending on the region or era you're from in Russia will depend on how phlegmy pronunciations are. My folks & relatives came from a region that spoke soft consonants ~ to the point that the harsher current Russian spoken today almost sounds foreign to me. For instance my family pronounced the hard Russian "г"(hard Russian G) more like a soft American "h" ~ my college Russian professors instantly knew what region my folks were from when they heard my Russian dialect/accent.

The rare Russian Pavlovskaya chicken ~ nice bird for snow but our heatwaves aren't good for them here ~ also too expensive for my wallet

I came this close to picking up a few my last big project I worked out west. There is a place in Manitoba that raises them. But alas their hatch scheduled and my travel schedule didn’t match.

 

[BY Bob]

Awwww sweet success! I love it!

It's not a success yet. That's up to Niamh, Joy, and Tilly.

 

[Ponypoor]

I wonder if the way they are roosting on the perch that it might be causing the curling?

More likely due to the birds confirmation, how they walk and dig, also rocky hard ground will help wear down nails fast; crooked toes don’t allow for efficient digging and wearing down of nails. Mr P is like this.

 

[RoyalChick]

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 Bet 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.

Just so you know, the lab in Texas that several of us use serves an international customer base.
I don’t think used cotton swabs would be likely to attract any tariffs.

 

[Ponypoor]

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.

Yep winter chicks are definitely more work and worry.

 

[RoyalChick]

More likely due to the birds confirmation, how they walk and dig, also rocky hard ground will help wear down nails fast; crooked toes don’t allow for efficient digging and wearing down of nails. Mr P is like this.

Given none of the others have this issue I assume Piglet just grows her nails that way. I don’t see how it would be the roost.
Anyway, so far she seems fine with her trim. I feel I could have been braver and taken more off.

 

[Ponypoor]

Just so you know, the lab in Texas that several of us use serves an international customer base.
I don’t think used cotton swabs would be likely to attract any tariffs.

Yep but sending ‘poultry’ items might be cause for some penalty for me… I like going across the border to get my Blue-Kote from TSC

I can hear it now ‘Ma’am we want to make sure you don’t have any poultry contraband being brought over here - we’d like to check under your seat please’…..

Quick shove those chicks down your sweeter Mum!!! Tell him your boobs chirp!

 

[Ponypoor]

Just so you know, the lab in Texas that several of us use serves an international customer base.
I don’t think used cotton swabs would be likely to attract any tariffs.

Wonder what the cost is for the test…..

But darn it’s the Tylosin use that’s the big problem. Such a rootin tootin trouble - I could kick myself for getting those chicks, but then I am also extremely sad I couldn’t get the other two and I can’t help but wonder if they are ok, are they suffering.

I am my own worse enemy for worrying.