Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Hen-Rietta has laid two eggs back to back. No wonder she was so uncomfortable

 

[featherhead007]

Hen-Rietta has laid two eggs back to back. No wonder she was so uncomfortable

That’s never happened before with her

 

[Ponypoor]

Mr P, reminds me so much of doc Brown in back to the future (that hair)

Hahahaha yes so true!

I think you have said this before, but I have forgotten...is Cholo a lavender Orrington? He is quite stately and handsome

He is quite lovely, and look at those wattles!

It was not until I had the idea of using a doorbell camera on the ceiling of the nest boxes that I learned how much these chickens move their eggs around.
You would think they would find that hard without fingers.
Particularly as mine are in dishwashing bowls so there is a real lip to them.
Not one of these eggs started out in the middle box. Not even the ceramic one.

In good news. Eli’s was exactly 2oz. The smallest she has laid since getting egg bound. I hope it stays that way.


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Marty decided she didn’t like the straw I gave her, she rolled the egg from Buttercup and her egg out of the lovely nest I made for her to the other side of the nest box. Hahaha. Guess she told me!

Her rooster is ginormous, probably 7 kilos so he probably played a part in it unless she roosted too high and injured it hopping off the roost.

Oh no! That is my worry with wee Marty. And also why I lowered my roosts.

Hen-Rietta has laid two eggs back to back. No wonder she was so uncomfortable

Where they normal looking eggs?

 

[featherhead007]

Hahahaha yes so true!


He is quite lovely, and look at those wattles!


Marty decided she didn’t like the straw I gave her, she rolled the egg from Buttercup and her egg out of the lovely nest I made for her to the other side of the nest box. Hahaha. Guess she told me!


Oh no! That is my worry with wee Marty. And also why I lowered my roosts.


Where they normal looking eggs?

Somewhat smaller

 

[Ponypoor]

Somewhat smaller

Is she a bit better now? Is she feeling better?

 

[featherhead007]

Is she a bit better now? Is she feeling better?

Her bumble foot is better now. She was unbalanced lately, but aren’t we all?!

 

[featherhead007]

I just brought Jaffar inside for a rest. He’s not 100% either. He’s complaining about it too !

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I have found out my flock has Mareks. I feel so horrible.

Sorry you have to deal with this!
Just read the article @RoyalChick linked to. Though she has had terrible tragedy losing so many birds, she found reasons to not give up, and she has adapted and her evolved flock has been better. She wrote the article to help others in the same situation. Maybe you can find some consolation, hope and strength through it.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Oh no! So, sorry.


There is an article here about someone learning to live with Marek's in their flock. It might be helpful.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...-i-learned-to-deal-with-mareks-disease.76944/

I thought this article was quite hopeful in the end, in a practical way too. But wow, so much illness and death, really tragic. Thank you for posting the link.

 

[Chicken poppy]

Oh dear - I am soooooo very sorry to hear this, but I think I read somewhere that most all chickens will have been exposed to it one way or another. So I am wondering if they will just live with it like we all live with the Influenza.

Is everyone else ok? Other than having been ill... ? How do you think they all caught it? Or do you think it has just been there all along?

I have suspicion they either caught it from the person that is the bloodline “carrier” of my Japanese bantams. She has given me Dixie, the eggs for Jolene, Gabby, Duck, and Peep, and the four eggs that hatched the chicks now.

Or, they caught it from a silkie that was in a split position with her legs in complete paralysis. I’m quite confident she might have had it but that was a while ago.

Jolene, Gabby, and one of the babies are acting off. Possibly two of the chicks.