Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Well Whiskers started pecking her chicks when they tried to roost with her in one of the nest boxes. So I put her on the ledge, and put the 3 chicklets in their crate for the night.

That’s her on the left, and looks like someone is again roosting on that small wall. Poor Holly will get pooped on again.

 

[RoyalChick]

Holy Dinah!

Nope nope nope - don’t make me drive down there…. You need to see an MD, esp if your neck is also hurting!

What on earth happened?!

Good grief! OK so you need to (with any head injury) see a doctor, you don’t need to be knocked out to sustain a concussion.

And I really do not want to scare you but a small bleed can get bigger over time, I have heard so many times from people I know, about them sustaining a subdural hematoma which took a month to 6 weeks to become a serious issue.

Please please please promise me you will

1) call someone and let them know what happened so they can keep an eye on you

2) go to see a doctor.

(It’s a really long drive for me to get to your place!)

You are a sweetheart. Yes I know that it can take a long time for something to surface and I will be very alert to any signs of anything. But for now I am just wanting to make sure someone will check on me in the night.
So I have done number 1). Specifically, I have set up a group of friends to text me and if I don't respond to call me and if I don't respond to send the police for a wellness check.
I will see about number 2). Not sure I need an MD. I have no symptoms apart from the painful swelling/bruise developing on my head and my fat lip (I think I must have bitten it as I got clonked).
No nausea/vomiting, no photophobia, no dizziness, no slurring of words (have been on the phone constantly with anxious friends!), no confusion. No neck stiffness beyond my usual old lady everything stiffness. Frankly I don't even have a headache any more!
If I get any symptoms tonight I will go to the Emergency Room and if I get anything over the next few days I will consult a doc.
I have also told the chickens that they have to wait at least 24 hours before I go back out to the woods to get more logs for them!

 

[Ponypoor]

You are a sweetheart. Yes I know that it can take a long time for something to surface and I will be very alert to any signs of anything. But for now I am just wanting to make sure someone will check on me in the night.
So I have done number 1). Specifically, I have set up a group of friends to text me and if I don't respond to call me and if I don't respond to send the police for a wellness check.
I will see about number 2). Not sure I need an MD. I have no symptoms apart from the painful swelling/bruise developing on my head and my fat lip (I think I must have bitten it as I got clonked).
No nausea/vomiting, no photophobia, no dizziness, no slurring of words (have been on the phone constantly with anxious friends!), no confusion. No neck stiffness beyond my usual old lady everything stiffness. Frankly I don't even have a headache any more!
If I get any symptoms tonight I will go to the Emergency Room and if I get anything over the next few days I will consult a doc.
I have also told the chickens that they have to wait at least 24 hours before I go back out to the woods to get more logs for them!

OK I am really glad you have a plan, I am sure this is a great story and one day you will regale us with it

For now rest and heal up.

 

[BY Bob]

Very ladylike.
It is interesting - she approaches it as part way food and part way drink.

I thought the same thing. Engender she does not have to rush. No one else is going to take it from her so that may play into this.

 

[BY Bob]

Cluckmas

Mrs BY Bob bought all of the chicken based wrapping paper at tractor supply. We will never use this all up.

I was given this as a gift yesterday.

Happy Holidays!

 

[BY Bob]

I went out foraging for a good branch to create an extended corner roost, and for big logs/stumps to add to the obstacle course to help Piglet avoid Mr. Chips' attentions ....... and something happened.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/things-you-wish-you-could-say.1441513/post-28938315
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/things-you-wish-you-could-say.1441513/post-28938440

Sigh.

You must be more careful.

I do this all the time. The big run is 5 feet high because of how I had to fit it around the birch tree. I'm 5 foot 8 inches tall. I bang my head on the cross beam in the middle and the door frame all the time.

2 nights ago I was putting Niamh to bed. She was perched on my arm and I hit my head on the door frame. I saw stars.

Fortunately I've done it so many times I didn't even flinch. Niamh never knew.

 

[RoyalChick]

You must be more careful.

I do this all the time. The big run is 5 feet high because of how I had to fit it around the birch tree. I'm 5 foot 8 inches tall. I bang my head on the cross beam in the middle and the door frame all the time.

2 nights ago I was putting Niamh to bed. She was perched on my arm and I hit my head on the door frame. I saw stars.

Fortunately I've done it so many times I didn't even flinch. Niamh never knew.

Sounds like you are the one who needs to be careful!
I was being super careful to make sure I didn’t hit my head on a low lying branch in the woods, or fall down a gopher hole, or get eaten by a bear.
Being hit by a steel pipe was not on my list of things to be careful of!

Meanwhile, in good news Cookie has made sure she isn’t pushed off the end of the roost tonight.

 

[notabitail]

You must be more careful.

I do this all the time. The big run is 5 feet high because of how I had to fit it around the birch tree. I'm 5 foot 8 inches tall. I bang my head on the cross beam in the middle and the door frame all the time.

2 nights ago I was putting Niamh to bed. She was perched on my arm and I hit my head on the door frame. I saw stars.

Fortunately I've done it so many times I didn't even flinch. Niamh never knew.

I did this but hit my head pretty hard on these window shutter thingies that stuck out of the coop. Nice scar right by my eye. It hurt.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

You are a sweetheart. Yes I know that it can take a long time for something to surface and I will be very alert to any signs of anything. But for now I am just wanting to make sure someone will check on me in the night.
So I have done number 1). Specifically, I have set up a group of friends to text me and if I don't respond to call me and if I don't respond to send the police for a wellness check.
I will see about number 2). Not sure I need an MD. I have no symptoms apart from the painful swelling/bruise developing on my head and my fat lip (I think I must have bitten it as I got clonked).
No nausea/vomiting, no photophobia, no dizziness, no slurring of words (have been on the phone constantly with anxious friends!), no confusion. No neck stiffness beyond my usual old lady everything stiffness. Frankly I don't even have a headache any more!
If I get any symptoms tonight I will go to the Emergency Room and if I get anything over the next few days I will consult a doc.
I have also told the chickens that they have to wait at least 24 hours before I go back out to the woods to get more logs for them!

If you are taking anything that thins your blood the risk is way higher, so factor that in, please.

You must be more careful.

I do this all the time. The big run is 5 feet high because of how I had to fit it around the birch tree. I'm 5 foot 8 inches tall. I bang my head on the cross beam in the middle and the door frame all the time.

2 nights ago I was putting Niamh to bed. She was perched on my arm and I hit my head on the door frame. I saw stars.

Fortunately I've done it so many times I didn't even flinch. Niamh never knew.

Right, but now we do. We already knew from your previous posts this is an issue, but repeat hits to your head, like on the regular? Not good. And I have thoughts, of course.

Seriously consider at least some kind of warning object - like hanging some hippie beads or something that hits your head before the damaging beam does.

I wonder if there isn't another way to support the coop roof, such as a metal cross-piece that requires much less bulk to be strong. Or an exterior beam that suspends the roof structure. I know you have glass or plastic windows up there? I'll think on this.

You could add a knee wall to your existing structure and raise the roof. Is that tree still in a position that you would have to have the roof that low if you were building it today?

 

[Ponypoor]

Silver is wheezing/breathing odd. This braying sort of breathing is what I dealt with when the gang initially where ill - at least she isn’t gasping, just breathing odd. I initially thought she was Patches but no it’s Silver who is just finishing moulting.