Ribh's D'Coopage

[MaryJanet]

By Bob and I were discussing antibiotic. Cetrigen is antiseptic - some antiseptics are also antibiotic. I'll have to check what its ingredients are.

I've checked and cetrigen is antibiotic. So that would explain the egg withholding advice. Cetrimide is the active ingredient (if you want to look it up).

 

[BY Bob]

Can't remember who asked for pictures of Lavender's molt @LozzyR @Aussie-Chookmum ???

Anyway here we are:
Bare bum. You can literally see the feathers dropping off her.

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@ least the new feathers are coming in but both sides of her neck,
down her chest & her abdomen.
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These are harder to see but all down her back we have this...
She's an absolute mess just now. She looks incredibly ratty~tatty & every time she moves hordes of feathers fall of her!
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All Lavender's feathers.

More in the run & blowing all round my yard.

Poor girl.
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Poor baby

 

[BY Bob]

Well, she's not laying so I haven't worried about it. @BY Bob is the expert on this stuff. I think he said it wasn't a concern...

He & MaryJanet had quite a discussion about that sort of thing. Not being scientifically inclined I didn't understand most of it.

I don't remember any discussions around this? @MaryJanet am I forgetting something?

 

[BY Bob]

Then I will have to pick @BY Bob ’s brain!

I will be glad to look at the ingredients but I don't remember a conversation.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

I might have a couple of 'roost-ers' finally! Nyssa and River, the salmon Faverolles appear to be roosting on the edge of the nesting box, which isn't ideal as it's quite narrow. I think I might put the (fairly useless) roosting bar back in, as it's wider than the side of the nesting box

Deana, the Rhode Island Red, was roosting on the nesting box edge in the small coop too. It can't be comfortable. I guess that Tsuki is just a perch hog

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Can't remember who asked for pictures of Lavender's molt @LozzyR @Aussie-Chookmum ???

Anyway here we are:
Bare bum. You can literally see the feathers dropping off her.

View attachment 2042340
@ least the new feathers are coming in but both sides of her neck,
down her chest & her abdomen.
View attachment 2042341
These are harder to see but all down her back we have this...
She's an absolute mess just now. She looks incredibly ratty~tatty & every time she moves hordes of feathers fall of her!
View attachment 2042342
All Lavender's feathers.

More in the run & blowing all round my yard.

Poor girl.
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It was me asking. Poor Lavender . Her bottom looks so red! I hope that's Cetigren residue and not irritation.

New feathers coming through the skin look like some form of medieval torture...or acupuncture from the inside

Once her new feathers come in she'll be extra beautiful.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Poor darling. I picked up some Cetrigen today and noticed it has on the back of it “Do not use on birds whose eggs are for human consumption”. Well! What are your thoughts on that? (And other people who have used it, such as @MaryJanet ).

I kept Alice's eggs aside to give back to them for two weeks but the Cetigren has mostly worn off now and, as she is the only one laying, I have decided to risk eating them again

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

The girls all went to bed in the same coop tonight all on their own for the first time!

Of course only Pepper and Tsuki are on the perches.

Poor Edwina was last in and tried to hop up on the front perch with Tsuki. She was driven off and out of the coop several times. At last she poked her head in when Tsuki's back was turned and made a dash for the middle nesting box. This proved successful as there is a wooden "curtain" across the top of the nesting boxes and the "roost-ers" can't reach the "nesters" from the perches.

 

[MaryJanet]

I don't remember any discussions around this? @MaryJanet am I forgetting something?

We were discussing antibiotics more broadly, superbugs, micro dosages, and egg withholding. It was a few months ago now.

 

[LozzyR]

I will be glad to look at the ingredients but I don't remember a conversation.

I can find out what they are on the weekend, if someone doesn’t beat me to it.