Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

What do guys think?

 

[BY Bob]

I’m thinking that my Dakota need a beak trim:
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That doesn't look too bad to me.

 

[Ponypoor]

Are you sure they aren't getting into anything and eating it and now it's causing a blockage?

Sorry you are having so many crop problems!
Has her crop emptied this morning?

No it’s full of fluid. I pulled 30mls of brown putrid fluid from her crop using the gastric tube then dosed her with more clotrimazole.

Always a possibility of hay but the crop is all fluid not firm like Jaffarra’s was.

She’s sleeping in front of the heater again tonight.

 

[CCsGarden]

No it’s full of fluid. I pulled 30mls of brown putrid fluid from her crop using the gastric tube then dosed her with more clotrimazole.

Always a possibility of hay but the crop is all fluid not firm like Jaffarra’s was.

She’s sleeping in front of the heater again tonight.

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I find it odd you are having some many problems!
Hope she can recover!!

 

[Labsandchickens8]

Today I was sitting out in the new chicken yard with the big girls and we heard a hawk. I scanned the sky and didn't see it, then I looked at them. A couple of them had frozen, and then Jane (Orpington) did the warning call. The first and only time I have heard one of my girls do it was in the run and it sounded like she was muttering to the others. I looked at them (had been looking away, cleaning the poop shelf) and they were all frozen. I looked outside the run and we all watched in horror as a snake slithered by, stopping every 30 seconds to try and find a way in. I only know now what it is because I had just watched a BY Bob video of all of you and your chickens hiding under the coop while the Cooper's hawk was outside. Hattie did the warning call, which you called a "growl."
It was fascinating to see that my chicken who has spent the whole 15 months of her life living in a brooder inside and then a confined run knew to do that.
And that's why I'm trying to read the old posts. So much to learn!

 

[Ponypoor]

Happy Caturday

From warmer days......

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Awww well hello beautiful Moggy. Bet you’re wishing it was still warmer days, or maybe you prefer the colder weather?

She’s such a marvellous moggy

 

[Ponypoor]

I find it odd you are having some many problems!
Hope she can recover!!

Which is why I am paranoid of Mareks

But not much I can do if it is.

 

[Ponypoor]

How did Flopsy do today @Ponypoor?

Thanks for asking. Today I used the gastric tube and pulled 30ml of smelly brown fluid from her crop, I couldn’t pull any further as the tube I have is too small to suck up thicker fluids and bits of grains and such. I then dosed her with more Clotrimazole. Tonight she is sleeping in front of the heater, I have to make run out to the barn and get Curly off the floor in the Winter Room. I’ll check on her and see how she is.

Curly was knocked off the ledge it seems. She’s under the ledge there in the centre.

If it was warmer I wouldn’t worry, but it’s too cold to be down there on her own.

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh no! That's definitely scary. I know you will give her the best chance possible. That is a crazy amount of crop problems.

I am so paranoid about Mareks, having read that it can affect the crop.

Of course she could just have some other system issue where the crop issue is secondary. I don’t feel any masses in her abdomen, and I have wormed with ivermectin so I don’t think gizzard worms.

It’s the speed with which she has lost weight which also has me so worried. Just a week of so I was lifting her down from the door and told her she had some heft to her. Now she’s light as a feather

 

[Ponypoor]

I’m thinking that my Dakota need a beak trim:
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Just maybe the tip trimmed a wee bit. Not too much. Be careful!