Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Yes Sally, you are right. I’m sure my Sir Jaffar has already welcomed her into eternity.
It still doesn’t help much that I miss the ones I have lost.

 

[rural mouse]

Holy Dinah what’s with the white wings?!

They have white wing tips as chicks...Mera never changed them....through several moults...

 

[Sylvester017]

Go barefeet. You don't have to clean your shoes. You only clean your feet.

Let us know how that method works out for you

 

[BY Bob]

How tragic ~ Sweet baby. DH & I feel your pain.
Did the vet have any diagnosis/clue?

Nope. We can't explain it other than it wasn't infectious in origin.
Likely neurological. She could have been having strokes. She was having trouble eating without choking towards the end. Maybe she was having neurological issues affecting the use of her tongue as well.

She would not try to stand one legged. She was laying on her left side with her right leg sticking out the last week. Likely, it was not just the right leg that was involved.

She did not eat much yesterday and stopped drinking. I was holding her this morning and in a couple of minutes, she was gone.

 

[BY Bob]

Loved that video, watched all of it just now. A happy time for her! She lived a good chicken life for her short time.

That's very kind of you to say.

 

[featherhead007]

Go barefeet. You don't have to clean your shoes. You only clean your feet.

 

[notabitail]

Let us know how that method works out for you

It's worked out very well over the 2+ years I've deployed it.

It works great. Instead of me sitting, wetting my shoes to clean the nitty gritty whateverness on the bottom, all I have to do is scrape my feet off. The worst is when it gets stuck in the toes. Then you just swipe out the in-between with your finger, and if you really want to, wet a towel and rub it in between.

It also usually saves me a good thirty seconds with having to put shoes on as well.

 

[notabitail]

I love the treadle feeders and was astonished how much feed was being wasted before I got them.
Cookie is still a little small to use them but hopefully she will get there soon. I haven’t had to train the Littles - they learned by watching the big hens.

I may just have to get some of these then. Feed waste has always been a problem here.

 

[Ponypoor]

Gotta watch out for those poop bombs! It's not that they're slippery for me to step on... I just don't relish cleaning the bottoms of my soles afterwards... so I'm really careful where I step

Yep slippery and icky! No use trying to watch were I walk, it’s everywhere with all my gang!

 

[Ponypoor]

It's worked out very well over the 2+ years I've deployed it.

It works great. Instead of me sitting, wetting my shoes to clean the nitty gritty whateverness on the bottom, all I have to do is scrape my feet off. The worst is when it gets stuck in the toes. Then you just swipe out the in-between with your finger, and if you really want to, wet a towel and rub it in between.

It also usually saves me a good thirty seconds with having to put shoes on as well.

Nope not happening! Do you know what snow does to feet?! Even my
Chickens won’t walk on snow! Mud good snow bad!