Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

A Gift
A friend of mine gave me this on Friday. She created this herself without photoshopping anything. A semi-original piece of art.

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That art, requires additional explanation

 

[featherhead007]

Go get him Marty!

Nothing like a broody cranky hen !
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[Lexicon]

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Is that from today? Can we assume that Mrs. BYBob got the message that Betty and Aurora were dutifully waiting for the treat lady?!

 

[knoturavggrl]

I don’t count the Silkies even once!

Wait, if they can’t be counted, then @Ponypoor has way less chickens and that means she needs quite a few more chicks for sure!

 

[Grandmas Coop]

Ok experts, this is not Fowl Cholera, I think

This morning I noticed one of my hens had a swollen wattle, she is acting fine.
Just one, no I dont think it is Foul Cholera, but she has something going on, I put some Benadryl cream on it to start, later I'll see if that did much-----







On an irritating note, I noticed some beginnings of mold is a few places on the walls,,
SO< 10am
I got ever side wall wiped down and then sprayed with the Clorox cleaner and wiped again.
(an older pic)


The Benadryl cream did help a bit, but after I was done cleaning about 11:30, I got a warm wash cloth out and wiped her wattle off and rubbed it a bit, then I put bag balm on it. I scrubbed the water jug and refilled it. I added Rooster Booster electrolytes and probiotics to the water.

so now its 3:45, I
checked on the hen, its not draining just very swollen, what do you think if I put arnica cream on it?
Like I said, she is eating and drinking and acting fine, but I bet she has a headache....


Any thoughts???

 

[Ponypoor]

Wait, if they can’t be counted, then @Ponypoor has way less chickens and that means she needs quite a few more chicks for sure!

What sort of Chicken Math is that!?

But I could be persuaded to agree with that hypothesis.... for the sake of getting a batch of day old pullets....

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Ok experts, this is not foul cholera ,

This morning I noticed one of my hens had a swollen wattle, she is acting fine.
Just one, no I dont think it is Foul Cholera, but she has something going on, I put some Benadryl cream on it to start, later I'll see if that did much-----







On an irritating note, I noticed some beginnings of mold is a few places on the walls,,
SO< 10am
I got ever side wall wiped down and then sprayed with the Clorox cleaner and wiped again.
(an older pic)


The Benadryl cream did help a bit, but after I was done cleaning about 11:30, I got a warm wash cloth out and wiped her wattle off and rubbed it a bit, then I put bag balm on it. I scrubbed the water jug and refilled it. I added Rooster Booster electrolytes and probiotics to the water.

so now its 3:45, I
checked on the hen, its not draining just very swollen, what do you think if I put arnica cream on it?
Like I said, she is eating and drinking and acting fine, but I bet she has a headache....


Any thoughts???

Ouch that looks painful.
The first pic, that dark triangle / three-armed shape on her swollen wattle, what's going on there? Is that a wound and a bit of blood, or dirt? Sorry for you and her! Have you posted on the illnesses / injuries thread?

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I will say it again….. Silkies, are the Toy Poodle’s of poultry.
Living feather dusters!

I do not have poodle chickens, I have Pomeranian chickens.

 

[BY Bob]

I don’t count the Silkies even once!

Neither would Aurora. Too weird looking to be real chickens.

Not me, but Aurora for sure.

 

[BY Bob]

Here you go

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