What did you do with your flock today?

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

I got them well fed and watered up good and gave them some time out in the yard, the cold front is supposed to be here sometime in the night tonight so they should be good and comfy and ready for tomorrow. : )

Ugh cold fronts....we got massive t-storms!

We need a traveling hen party... we'll all descend on you for a week, then @Gammas Bearded Babies for a week and so on . Our dear hubby's can hold down the forts for us

Count me IN!!!

 

[Shetland lover]

It's been raining hard here for the last 15 hrs and has caused some pretty big puddles to which the ducks are ecstatic. They are grass surfing as we speak.
The ladies are not having as much fun. They are 10/10 not impressed.
Went out and lined the coop, run, palace with straw and bedding to make sure they have a large dry area. In this process, learned a funny fact.
Wanna heard a bunch of selective hearing hens? Walk up to their area with an umbrella. Don't even have to walk in. You don't have to point it at them. Poof gone.

A black plastic sack does that to mine

 

[Aliceismad106]

A black plastic does that to mine

I found out today that if they are being food bullies, fwapping them in the chest with a collard leaf has a very desirable and hilarious effect.

 

[kurby22]

I found out today that if they are being food bullies, fwapping them in the chest with a collard leaf has a very desirable and hilarious effect.

Mine act like I’ve come to murder them when I add new bedding to their coop. It’s ridiculous

 

[Shetland lover]

Oh I forgot to tell yall....(sorry depression has been really bad this week) but Lizzy laid her first egg in quite a while and it was perfect! No calcium deposits! And had a perfectly good nice shell all around it!
Super proud of her recovery!!!
So in light if that do yall still think I may be dealing with IB?

Yay Lizzy! Definitely recovering nicely!

Alice continued to lay great eggs after recovering for about 8 months then got EYP. It still could be IB. Just keep an eye on her as IB is implicated in later reproductive issues like EYP and salpingitis. Not all hens are affected but I wish I'd known when Alice had IB. If I had, I'd have been quicker to act when I realised she'd stopped laying for no apparent reason. Forewarned is forearmed.

 

[Shetland lover]

I found out today that if they are being food bullies, fwapping them in the chest with a collard leaf has a very desirable and hilarious effect.

If I did that with mine, they'd snatch it out of my hand and eat it! They love, love, love collards. In facr they'll try to eat most anything...including me!

 

[Aliceismad106]

If I did that with mine, they'd snatch it out of my hand and eat it! They love, love, love collards. In facr they'll try to eat most anything...including me!

Mine do too. Here is Olive who loves me but is 99 percent done with my BS.

 

[kurby22]

Maybe the original wound was a mosquito or other insect bite after all? As we've discussed, mosquitoes and other biting insects are mechanical vectors for fowl pox. The crusty lesions are reminiscent of Fowl Pox but there's also significant swelling around the feather shafts closest to them. Are these the lumps you mention? Did any of these lumps go on to develop into lesions?
The other thing that bugs me is that she passed away at all. Dry fowl pox has a low mortality, very few chickens die from the dry form unless there's underlying conditions, or they are very young or old. Unless she had diptheric and/or systemic as well?
The lesions also look like those caused by some squamous cell carcinomas but that doesn't really make sense given the speed of progression - unless she had an ALV which was already well advanced.
It's a mystery, for sure.

It really is. They definitely felt like tumors but I was soo new to chickens I had no idea. To me they felt like fatty tumors like our dog has…so I wasn’t sure if she just had a super unusual presentation of dry pox, cancer, poison…I was so confused—still am.

I sent off more samples for Nohope. This time I checked all the possible things it might be that they test for—aspergillus, campylobacter, clostridium, IBV and ALV. If it’s none of those I guess we can assume poison if some kind.

 

[Shetland lover]

here are my babies.
Starting from thw top and going right to left you have
Olive, Pimento, Billy Jo, Bobby Sue, Nugget, Batgirl, Lydia, Sabrina, Gemma, Harley.
Ducks Re Cayenne, Cheese, Quackers and Doodle. We just got the Blue Swedish a couple weeks ago when our black swedish baby boy passed.

They are all so pretty! I love looking at everyone's birds. I'm just a chicken voyeur! Not in a pervy way, obviously
Swedish ducks always remind me of Shetland ducks, with that white bib. I wonder if they have common ancestry?

 

[Shetland lover]

That sounds so sweet! I'm like @Gammas Bearded Babies ...I love to sing but have no faith anyone wants to hear me

Beautiful babies

Absolutely no one wants to hear me sing. I have the worst voice in the world! Chickens and cats don't care though, they think I have a beautiful voice