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  1. ChicoryBlue

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    AFTER all that, he still needs to be a gentleman. A Gentle Roo. Or else all the foregoing is for naught!
  2. ChicoryBlue

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Okay, got another video, most of the gang outside. Olive was in the coop laying her egg.
  3. ChicoryBlue

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    When do you put a saddle on a hen? Part-way to getting bare spots? Lizbel is one I'm thinking of here, and I made a video today. Somebody, either Lizbel or Bea, also seems to have the feathers around her shoulders worn away, the shaft is there but no feathering, and then further back the...
  4. ChicoryBlue

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    BFTP: Came across this picture of Shenai as a chick, June 2025. A big chick, I had roo suspicions because of "her" feet size, long legs and even the relative prominence of his comb. Or that she had hatched two weeks prior and was thrown into my order. Friendly but shy about being held. So at the...
  5. ChicoryBlue

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    I was thinking about using a chicken sling to file down Diane's toenails, I've let them go and they are really long, but she's quite the biter, so I was envisioning holding her football-like under my arm, keel on my leg, with her foot/feet sticking out back. Then I heard about a chicken sling...
  6. ChicoryBlue

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    We were hoping Peanut would be comfortable for some weeks but that was not to be. She had one good day, likely due to the tumors themselves being in a painful way, than the ascites. When the accumulation is slow, it’s possible the bird can happily live for many months with periodic drainings...
  7. ChicoryBlue

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    And the roo is there guarding! ❤️
  8. ChicoryBlue

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    You're going to get instruction from Pony? Or do a lot of research. My vet was explaining a bit about draining as she did it for Peanut, going in on the left side (I think) for best chance at not hitting organs, & not taking more than 60ml at a time, so that you don't end up sucking organ tissue...
  9. ChicoryBlue

    Open Contest BYC Poultry Caption Contest 03-20-26 Pic by DonyaQuick

    Pullets in fine form, practicing their perimeter / all-around defense ❤️
  10. ChicoryBlue

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    The auto-correct has gotten really aggressive. Correcting things it thinks it “knows better”…. I’m not in the habit of checking to see that the middle option (which is going to go in) is what I want.
  11. ChicoryBlue

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Yes, but maybe including the following speculation? You’ve never shoved off the top roo likely. Only idiots, right? So the hormonal idiots know their place more or less and expect a certain amount of it, whether by him immediately or by you, the semi-top sort-of-chicken-but-more-lenient “cool”...
  12. ChicoryBlue

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    It really is a lot for a little chicken hooman to bear. ❤️❤️ :hugs :hugs :hugs:hugs
  13. ChicoryBlue

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    How you navigate your role is interesting, because you are acting like a competing rooster to some extent here, but submitting when confronted I suppose?
  14. ChicoryBlue

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Yes the Littles are all laying. He does mate them, but in the evenings the last two days he is most interested in the Bigs. The Littles know to retreat to an "up" perch, which most of them do, and that leaves the Bigs. He seems to lately really have a thing for Annie, even when the Littles were...
  15. ChicoryBlue

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    I'm trying the Rooster Allies methods, which ask one not to try any dominance / fear-based techniques. He's got raging hormones in charge right now, he's only nine months old, I'm not sure it would actually calm him down anyway, because there's no calming the hormones. Here there's no older...
  16. ChicoryBlue

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    What are those folks going to do? They could try vaccinating those hatching chicks. If you can quarantine those chicks like @RoyalChick did until the vax takes you have a shot at it being effective. Better than not trying it. How are you going to get the vax?
  17. ChicoryBlue

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    She is really cute, very mellow too, she and Tedi are lap chickens, Tedi is an armpit warrior too!
  18. ChicoryBlue

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Hot For Annie So the hours after 4:30 are just insane for Shehnai; he mated Annie 4-5 times in ten minutes or less, and she had already been avoiding him for a little while. She was fine with him earlier but now she was growing tired of his courting and was objecting a lot. I had been trying...
  19. ChicoryBlue

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Thank you RC!
  20. ChicoryBlue

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    So if enough is coming down it doesn’t need to be tipped either?
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