Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

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Two-fer Tuesday
Felicitas and Gaby.

 

[BY Bob]

If you have a carpentry/shop class in your school you can approach the teacher and ask for help with building a coop and run, the teacher might think it’s a great idea for a project for the students.

You might end up with a palace!

I love this idea!

 

[BY Bob]

Ok all have a lovely evening/night/day

More two fors

Mr P and Mrs LC - Mr P is not allowed on that wall!

Then next thing I know Henny Penny has hopped up on that branch roost next to Mrs LC. Sorry didn’t get a photo - I was too worried she would try to fly down and it’s a good 6’ up.
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Need to get that Winter Room enclosed and buttoned up this weekend, it’s getting really cold here.


Petra and Dorothy, and a couple more way at the back. Petra is growing up!

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Look how beautiful she is.

 

[BY Bob]

No more ISA’s

Hi everyone. I am once again several weeks behind in reading. I know several people have had losses lately, my deepest sympathies to all of you. And now I have also had a loss. Buffy, the last of my five ISA’s passed late Sunday or early Monday.

She was 3.5 years old, and has had reproductive issues for about a year. I had drained her abdomen a few times. The first was many months ago, the last a few days ago. When I drained it that time I could feel a hard lump in her abdomen. She had also started having crop issues that seemed to indicate that things weren’t able to pass through as well. When I did her abdomen I also used a catheter to drain her crop, because when I went to pick her up dark fluid gushed from her mouth. At least she seemed to be a little more comfortable her last few days.

Once she was gone I did a partial necropsy, mainly just opening her abdomen a little to examine the hard lump. It turned out to be similar to a lash egg, which I assume was from advanced infection in her abdomen.

She and Crystal, who I lost several weeks ago, will be laid to rest together. I kept having the feeling that as soon as I buried Crystal, Buffy would go too. So decided to just wait and bury them together when the time came.

Fly high my dearest ones. At least you will now be reunited with Goldie, Sassy, and Hazel.

Buffy from a few months ago, with her last fluffy butt photo.
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I always loved the patterning on her back feathers, that looked almost like lacing or pencilling.
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Memorial photo, and one of the material that wa in her abdomen (since I know some people appreciate things like this of a medical nature).

Spoiler: Buffy Memorial photo

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Spoiler: Abdominal material

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And I don’t think I ever posted pictures when Crystal passed.

Showing off her sunbathing pose
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Spoiler: Crystal memorial

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The poor ladies. They are not designed to live long and its so tragic how short we have made their lives. You are good to avoid them as I do with Leghorns. Its just too hard to lose them so young.

 

[BY Bob]

She’s such a lovely girl, and love those black specks - I have a fondness for spotty chooks.

She still hasn't molted. I'm starting to get concerned as to when she intends to do so. It is getting cold here.

 

[featherhead007]

I love this idea!

 

[BY Bob]

Everyone except Tassels is on strike here. Tassels so rarely lays normally because she is usually broody so I confess I am enjoying her beautiful dark green eggs at the moment. She lays about 4 a week.
I suspect Geronimo will be the first to start laying among the Littles - she is quite red in the face and is very interested in nest boxes. She checks them out every day!

That's exciting for you. What a treat that Tassels is laying!

 

[BY Bob]

Education is often approached as a science, isn’t it? I’m a child of the “Normal School” teacher-training movement in New York. You teach economics, isn’t that a science? A “dismal science” I’ve heard, lol, but a science!

Tax: Hazel and her very beady-eyed look, from a few years ago? Especially for @featherhead007 !
She’s currently having a flare up of MG bubbly eyes again, treating with terramycin now, which is helping.
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Gosh I have always loved her look. How are you treating the flare up?

 

[BY Bob]

Doubling down!

 

[BY Bob]

It's a "social science" - the study of how people interact with all things financial. Done correctly, it involves logic and lots of word problems.
I love it, but I love chickens more. I have great admiration for those of you who treat your own chickens' illnesses. I have a lot to learn.
Tax: another type of white chicken for BY Bob. This is Mirabel the Big Bossy Bresse. She looks a little like a Leghorn to me, and might have common heritage, since they come from France. They have to have blue legs though, since they are red, white and blue for the colors of the French flag. They are also supposed to have great tasting meat but obviously I wouldn't know. I have threatened her life a couple of times because shes so mean to other chickens at times, but other than putting her in Chicken Reeducation camp for a couple of days, she runs the place.

My gosh she is a real beauty!