What did you do with your flock today?

[FBMcrazy8]

It's definitely healing I'm so glad!

That's a good looking coop! I've never built a pretty coop . I'd go with any color but white...white shows all the poop and dirt too well! Teal blue or Kelly green sound wonderful Love the sticky linoleum tiles too. Excited for you!
Hope you enjoy the labor for it! I know for me getting started is sometimes an effort but the work is always exciting and the pleasure when done is just a perfect thing...even if my build isn't perfect...lol.

Rain here's the same...gentle rains are rare. I keep reminding myself that the wild flower show should be amazing this spring though! Not that it helps me today...but at least I can anticipate future smiles

That last picture where she's checking out the take out ...you have such lucky babies lady!

Snakes disappear here over the winter!

When it's warm, we do get garter snakes in the pond but they're harmless. I don't think I've seen one though since we got the ducks come to think of it.

Most of our snakes are harmless and welcome. We get coach whips, bull snakes, night snakes, king snakes, glossy snakes, garter snakes, thread snakes, and one with gorgeous red stripes that I forget the name of. Harmless constrictor though. That's just a list of what we find in the yard ! No idea how many types AZ has. O...and of course the awful rattlers.

The last two years though we've mostly been seeing king snakes and the occasional rattler. We had several king babies in our yard last year and this year we've seen a large king over and over. Thinking it's eating the other snakes. Still found two rattlesnakes this year though. King snakes even eat rattlesnakes so hoping those babies are permanent residents now... though this year I'm pretty sure I'm only seeing one king.

My garden that I can't live without is the real snake attraction. All the moisture and plants attracts everything living here. Birds galore, lizards, couple types of toads, rabbits, squirrels etc. Then the coops attract mice...so food and shelter heaven for lots of things. I move planters with care because I've found snakes curled under them more then once.

Give him time and they will be! They shed them periodically though. My kids have a bag of rooster spurs...they save them if they can find them when they shed. We had one little boy with huge 3-4" spurs that curled just right. My oldest watched him like a hawk cause she wanted to make a bracelet from his spurs. She found one when it shed but the other took so long that she missed it. I always wondered how he managed to roost with those poking him in the tushy!

I didn’t know they shed them! That is really good to know!

 

[FBMcrazy8]

No drama here, chicken or otherwise. Yippee! Cept it is firework season/week soon to be day/night. So today I make my plan and start my pack and ready to head up Koke'e with Elliott, Mochi San and Forest to avoid the war zone. Oh, and the 12 chickens I am sitting, who's people went from possibly more than 1 week to a solid 3 weeks... They are still really fun and cute chickens ♡
So, I'll be ready to go but hope it will stay civil till closer to NYE.

Finally had time to clean up and rearrange my sewing area and get back to making bags without it being an emergency. So. Much. Better. Little sad to have my mojo interrupted with Koke'e but I'm sure I'll get over it
Lots of clean up to do up there from the tree trim. Lots of mulch to load up and bring back down here too

The mosquitos are thick after the big rains so I have been spraying the roosts with EcoVet. I'm sure the dredded pox will surface on those who have not had yet. Glad to not have little littles now.

Welp. Time to put on some water and check the news while waiting for the sun.

I’m glad everything is going smoothly, at least no drama or anything crazy! Mosquitos are no fun in general…I hope everyone does fine if they do get the pox!

 

[FBMcrazy8]

Oh my goodness coffee is yummy this morning. A beautiful bean and Christmas gift from SIL. Such a wonderful & thoughtful lady.

So I think this is super cool. This is the hunting dog that it took me a good month to trap and broke my heart a little to let go and surrender (on many levels). He made it onto the KHS foster program ♡ which I am incredibly tempted to do btw. Till I remember he probably does not play well with cats.
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Anywho, this boy made it from a cold starving and wounded orphan to a pup who has a vet, a meal and a roof and hopefully a home with his very own people servants soon. It warmed my heart on most all levels. They also kept the name we gave him ♡ Pu'u Ka Pele. Though, they misspelled it lol.
Def a feel good story ♡♡♡

Oh that is awesome!!! he is so gorgeous!!! He is just a pretty brindle coat. I’m happy he will have a happy home!

 

[Shetland lover]

So as soon as I have a moment I will go back through all this and read your guys’ posts. But I wanted to show you guys the bottom of his foot.

I think that  is frostbite! Has it just come up today? Are those blisters? Does it feel hard and/or leathery? You should ideally see a vet as it looks like there may be deep tissue damage and if it is frostbite, he should have 15mg dose of Pentoxifylline, which is a vaso-dialator, for up to 6 weeks which will help promote circulation and reduce the damage to his foot. If you do get Pentoxifylline from your vet, make sure you don't give any vit E as it interacts with it.
Also, don't put him back out until it fully heals and try to limit his movement as walking on it too much will cause more damage.
You've been doing all the right things with him but it will get worse (if it is frostbite) before it improves and it will take 3-6 weeks to blacken and create what's known as the "line of demarcation" which is basically where the dead tissue ends and the unaffected, healthy tissue starts.
It's usually a good idea to wrap as for bumblefoot but you need to be very vigilant and keep an eye out for any liquid on the bandage or a bad smell as thst means secondary infection from wet gangrene which will need immediate antibiotic treatment.
I'd probably stop the foot soaks too. The blackening of the skin is a form of dry gangrene, don't be tempted to pick it off if it forms, it actually protects the skin healing underneath.
He'll probably need some pain relief too. If you see your vet, don't let them prescribe meloxicam alongside Pentoxifylline as it stops blood clotting.
You can give him a very low dose of aspirin if he is in pain. I've used it successfully for pain relief on a few of mine.

I'm really hoping I'm wrong that it's frostbite but if it is, with the correct care you can minimize the damage.

 

[Shetland lover]

I might be completely panicking though if I'm misinterpreting the photos.

 

[FBMcrazy8]

I think that  is frostbite! Has it just come up today? Are those blisters? Does it feel hard and/or leathery? You should ideally see a vet as it looks like there may be deep tissue damage and if it is frostbite, he should have 15mg dose of Pentoxifylline, which is a vaso-dialator, for up to 6 weeks which will help promote circulation and reduce the damage to his foot. If you do get Pentoxifylline from your vet, make sure you don't give any vit E as it interacts with it.
Also, don't put him back out until it fully heals and try to limit his movement as walking on it too much will cause more damage.
You've been doing all the right things with him but it will get worse (if it is frostbite) before it improves and it will take 3-6 weeks to blacken and create what's known as the "line of demarcation" which is basically where the dead tissue ends and the unaffected, healthy tissue starts.
It's usually a good idea to wrap as for bumblefoot but you need to be very vigilant and keep an eye out for any liquid on the bandage or a bad smell as thst means secondary infection from wet gangrene which will need immediate antibiotic treatment.
I'd probably stop the foot soaks too. The blackening of the skin is a form of dry gangrene, don't be tempted to pick it off if it forms, it actually protects the skin healing underneath.
He'll probably need some pain relief too. If you see your vet, don't let them prescribe meloxicam alongside Pentoxifylline as it stops blood clotting.
You can give him a very low dose of aspirin if he is in pain. I've used it successfully for pain relief on a few of mine.

I'm really hoping I'm wrong that it's frostbite but if it is, with the correct care you can minimize the damage.

Is there anything I can give without a prescription? Probably not but I don’t have a vet near me that will see chickens. I did some looking when I first got them and the closest is almost 2 hours away. His foot doesn’t feel any different from the other foot. They do look like blisters. They are squishy but I haven’t messed with it a lot. But he also has the skin missing in between the toes so I have been putting triple antibiotic on the whole foot. The blisters have been there since I brought him in too.

 

[ChicksnMore]

@FBMcrazy8 I sure hope it's not frostbite. I still can't imagine how he could have frostbite there and not in his toes. Especially with the injury higher up above the blister. But again...I have very little experience with frostbite. The only frostbite I've seen in real life didn't cause blistering...it made the skin turn white and die...but it also wasn't into the flesh. That was long ago in the tips of my own toes...never seen it in a chicken at all. Even just the skin was incredibly painful as it warmed back up though.

Well, fingers crossed and hope he continues to heal.

 

[Shetland lover]

Is there anything I can give without a prescription? Probably not but I don’t have a vet near me that will see chickens. I did some looking when I first got them and the closest is almost 2 hours away. His foot doesn’t feel any different from the other foot. They do look like blisters. They are squishy but I haven’t messed with it a lot. But he also has the skin missing in between the toes so I have been putting triple antibiotic on the whole foot. The blisters have been there since I brought him in too.

I don't think there is anything you can give as a vasodialator that can be bought off prescription but you could search online for Pentoxifylline and see if you can get it from another source in your country. I'd have to see a vet here to get it, and like you, I don't have a chicken vet either. My nearest is also roughly 2 hours away.
The fact that his foot feels no different to the other is a good sign. I wouldn't mess at all with the blisters. I'd keep up with the triple antibiotic cream over the whole foot but stop the foot soaks if any blackness starts to develop. Have you any aloe vera gel? If so, you can put that on once a day in between applying the antibiotic cream.
Apparently, frostbite is very itchy as it progresses so keep an eye out for him pecking his feet and stop him doing it.
Aspirin is a blood thinner so it may help to give a very low dose (My standard sized birds get a quarter of a 75mg tablet) to help blood flow to his toes, if you can't get Pentoxifylline. I think all you can do other than that is monitor him very closely.
I'm no expert by any means but I'll always try to help if I can

 

[FBMcrazy8]

@FBMcrazy8 I sure hope it's not frostbite. I still can't imagine how he could have frostbite there and not in his toes. Especially with the injury higher up above the blister. But again...I have very little experience with frostbite. The only frostbite I've seen in real life didn't cause blistering...it made the skin turn white and die...but it also wasn't into the flesh. That was long ago in the tips of my own toes...never seen it in a chicken at all. Even just the skin was incredibly painful as it warmed back up though.

Well, fingers crossed and hope he continues to heal.

The frost bite on his comb is very obvious, and the girls combs have turned pale and some have black showing up. He has 2 blisters under his foot and one smaller on on the top on the other side of the abrasion. But it has been there since I brought him in but since the swelling is going down I can see the blisters better. Like I said a few days ago too, I read somewhere where their chicken had blisters and they popped but it didn’t show what ended up happening to it. When I was reading up on frostbite this isn’t what I was expecting when I seen it. From my readings it isn’t what I found at all. Though most of the time they always show you the worst cases.

 

[FBMcrazy8]

I don't think there is anything you can give as a vasodialator that can be bought off prescription but you could search online for Pentoxifylline and see if you can get it from another source in your country. I'd have to see a vet here to get it, and like you, I don't have a chicken vet either. My nearest is also roughly 2 hours away.
The fact that his foot feels no different to the other is a good sign. I wouldn't mess at all with the blisters. I'd keep up with the triple antibiotic cream over the whole foot but stop the foot soaks if any blackness starts to develop. Have you any aloe vera gel? If so, you can put that on once a day in between applying the antibiotic cream.
Apparently, frostbite is very itchy as it progresses so keep an eye out for him pecking his feet and stop him doing it.
Aspirin is a blood thinner so it may help to give a very low dose (My standard sized birds get a quarter of a 75mg tablet) to help blood flow to his toes, if you can't get Pentoxifylline. I think all you can do other than that is monitor him very closely.
I'm no expert by any means but I'll always try to help if I can

Thank you! I really appreciate any help I can get. I will try the aspirin. How do you give it to them? I don’t know off the top of my head what he would eat to eat all of it at once. He is eating fantastic and drinking great but he is eating little by little. He is standing on it more and isn’t limping like he was. Really, and honestly, he is walking on it almost like normal. I don’t plan on messing with the blisters, but I am ready for when they do pop….antibiotic ointment. I bought a lot of it so I didn’t run into this again. It blows my mind too how his feet is the only one with this. None of the girls have this going on.