Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

Update on my school Polish with coccidiosis.
She was doing great. I finished her dosage on Monday and she was better. Her poop was normal, she was acting normal. Yesterday I went out to school with my friend and we wanted to clean the coop and whatnot. Taffy was dead. No clue what happened, but there was mold under the feeder and waterer, so we think it might’ve been respiratory. Blueberry, GreenBean, and the two barred rocks got some VetRX on their beak and under their wings yesterday to hopefully get rid of respiratory issues.
I’m really upset. Taffy didn’t like being caught, but once I had her she was the sweetest. I had hope that I could work with her and get her to be more social. I just wanted a blue polish, and now she is gone. Ugh, owning chickens is the worst sometimes.
Here is a picture I took of Taffy when I found her. Also, to take the picture she was in a flower box, just so no one thinks there is potting soil with the white fertilizer stuff in the coop…

Spoiler: Dead Polish Pullet

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My friend and I moved the run to a new spot (where no chickens have been before), washed off the TSC coop and scrubbed it with soap to get the poop off, and put the coop back into the run. We put barn lime and shavings down in the coop and run to try to get rid of parasites and coccidiosis.
Well, GreanBean has yellow and foamy poop, so I bought some new Corid and am dosing the water. I just hope it isn’t too hard on them.

Now, my chickens I have at home… I think Bolt is sick. I just don’t know how or why or what is wrong with her. Two days ago, I noticed that her feathers were really puffed up, and when I picked her up, she weighed a lot more than normal. Also, she had poop sticking to her butt and something hanging out of her vent. It was flat, long, and kinda yellow. I went into panic mode because I thought it was her intestines or something, but Mom said it was poop (I do NOT think it was poop.) I didn’t get a picture of it though. If Bolt dies though, I am probably going to sell/give away all of my chickens (except for Athens and maybe a few special ones). I’ve had that hen for almost four and a half years, and she is easily my favorite hen. Like, no one else compares to her besides Athens, and he isn’t a hen.
Here was her two days ago. I told Mom to hold her so she could feel how heavy she is.View attachment 4266235

So sorry.


Eating mold can also be bad - mold is not just a respiratory issue.

 

[RoyalChick]

Anyone know who this is? Much too big to be a mouse. Tail not long enough to be a rat.
Some kind of vole?

 

[rural mouse]

Anyone know who this is? Much too big to be a mouse. Tail not long enough to be a rat.
Some kind of vole?

Google lens...after some tweaking of the question

Vole seems to be a pretty good guess.

 

[TOMTE]

Anyone know who this is? Much too big to be a mouse. Tail not long enough to be a rat.
Some kind of vole?

Vole, likely either Microtus pennsylvanicus or Microtus pinetorum.

 

[bgmathteach]

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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Do you think there is a blockage further down in her system?

I hate to say where my thoughts are going...I so hope I am wrong!

 

[bgmathteach]

I don’t see anything gross about them! I think they are kinda pretty.

Oh, you said grouse… never mind

Stop your grousing, will ya?!

SHRA tax:

Unfortunately, not my chickens - rather a pull from the internet, I still can't get my computer to recognize my camera to upload pics.

 

[bgmathteach]

Anyone know who this is? Much too big to be a mouse. Tail not long enough to be a rat.
Some kind of vole?

What was that 'snap/ckick' at the end of the video....did you get it in a snap trap????

Agreed, tail is too short and ears are too small to be a rat.

 

[RoyalChick]

What was that 'snap/ckick' at the end of the video....did you get it in a snap trap????

Agreed, tail is too short and ears are too small to be a rat.

Nah. No traps. I think it must have been doing calisthenics on the rat-proof feeder trying to get it to open.
It did a couple of pull-ups on video.

 

[Ponypoor]

Poor Mr P, I grabbed him to give his head a spray as the brats were picking his head, and I scared the poop out of him! This is why I don’t generally handle him during the day.

 

[RoyalChick]

Never has a creature shown less curiosity than Mr. Chips to the 6-8” of snow that fell last night.
He figured it was a great day to take his girls nest box shopping!