Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Looks like salpingitis and a respiratory infection. We’re not in a position to have exploratory surgery and she just looked miserable today. Barely ate and stood around hunched most of the day. She looked like she was improving the last couple of days but then seemed miserable today and I didn’t want her to suffer any more.

RIP Tegan sweetheart.

Oh I am so sorry to hear this. Having pets is like having children, you have to have nerves of steel to cope

 

[Ponypoor]

Silkies fly like !

But they seem to bounce upon landing! I think I will get mum to put Marty in a nest box rather than her little cubbyhole as she seems to lay her eggs very early in the morning.

(Yes I am awake with that stupid dump truck outside my well-site running all night and stinking up things with diesel fumes!)

 

[Ponypoor]

Silkies fly like !

But they seem to bounce upon landing! I think I will get mum to put Marty in a nest box rather than her little cubbyhole as she seems to lay her eggs very early in the morning.

(Yes I am awake with that stupid dump truck outside my well-site running all night and stinking up things with diesel fumes!)

It was just by happenstance that I was awake for that and caught it on video!

I tell you these chickens and horses are giving me grey hair!

 

[GregnLety]

It was just by happenstance that I was awake for that and caught it on video!

I tell you these chickens and horses are giving me grey hair!

They must have short memories, saying this because the landing looks rough. Ours choose not to roost high.

 

[GregnLety]

Silkies fly like !

But they seem to bounce upon landing! I think I will get mum to put Marty in a nest box rather than her little cubbyhole as she seems to lay her eggs very early in the morning.

(Yes I am awake with that stupid dump truck outside my well-site running all night and stinking up things with diesel fumes!)

I'll compare that to my swimming. I dive like a crowbar and swim like a rock.

 

[bgmathteach]

I'm going with double digits, 10 of them

Winner, winner, Chicken um, Turkey dinner?

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OMG - YES!! THIS!!!!

Eight?
Do you know who might have initiated roosting there? I hear them now: "What's wrong? Seems like a good idea....everybody else is here!"

Not sure who instigated it! I have a couple of perpetual 'nope shrub/tree is better than the coop' ones.

I think it was more along the lines of “What do you mean you aren’t taking us outside to play again today?!? Just because it took forever to get us to go back in yesterday is no excuse.”

Exactly! With the ones in the shrub, tree, and on the coop, 14 out of 27 had to be physically moved to the coop. I'm seriously thinking no 'play time' today.

 

[bgmathteach]

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You know, I lost another hen last week because of this!!!

In my 'route 66' flock, I have 4-5 that like to roost in trees. One (of course, a DC girl) I can never find. In the morning, she comes running over and wants back in the coop/run complex so she can eat...but she is ALWAYS already down on the ground hovering around the coop - so no hint of where she sleeps. I've been telling her for months that one of these days she will no longer be there to greet me in the morning. Last Tuesday was the day. And it was confirmed when I later found 2 clumps of her feathers with skin attached.

I love my DC girls, partially just because they are so independent, closer to their wild breathren....but I also sometimes hate that they are so independent - because of times like this. I am very sad at the loss, but I had steeled myself for it all summer - the darn independent cuss

 

[rural mouse]

The queen is back at it making sure I know my place after her embarrassment. I went out to give them their lunch. She was actually front and center demanding it as you can see here.
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I fill up a coffee can of feed and corn and go scatter it. I'm swarmed, but one hen is suspiciously missing. Where the heck is Butter? I backtrack and sure enough, found her.
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Really your highness, is that necessary. You would think she would at least acknowledge my presence. Spoiled rotten hen.

Smart girl!

 

[bgmathteach]

Looks like salpingitis and a respiratory infection. We’re not in a position to have exploratory surgery and she just looked miserable today. Barely ate and stood around hunched most of the day. She looked like she was improving the last couple of days but then seemed miserable today and I didn’t want her to suffer any more.

RIP Tegan sweetheart.

Oh, I'm so sorry to hear this, she has been one of your long-time friends.

While I am sure it was the correct decision, it never makes it any easier, does it?

 

[bgmathteach]

Oh my goodness! I have no idea but from one of the pictures it looks like it could be a dozen. More? What did you do?

Um, I 'collected them all', one at a time, and put them in their coop for the night

This is why it takes me 1.5 hours to 'lock everyone up' at night.They aren't the only hooligans up to no good, just last night they were the worst of the groups.