Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Pavers are down, but it’s so chilly and I am so sore that the panels can wait until tomorrow.

You kiddos better not dig up that limestone screening! Having the pavers down will keep the temp panels level, and clear of grass.

The panels will stop about 30” from the barn (where the pavers stop) and I will run another temporary panel across the front of the doorway to create a passage for the kiddos to get outside.

At the far end of this little passage I will put an access gate across from the panel attached to the barn.

I’m getting there!

 

[featherhead007]

I hear ya, it’s not one thing, it’s another…..

Meanwhile I have Sophia in the nest box screaming about something…. She hasn’t laid her egg yet.

Maybe her WI-FI is broken in the laying box?

 

[featherhead007]

Pavers are down, but it’s so chilly and I am so sore that the panels can wait until tomorrow.

You kiddos better not dig up that limestone screening! Having the pavers down will keep the temp panels level, and clear of grass.

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The panels will stop about 30” from the barn (where the pavers stop) and I will run another temporary panel across the front of the doorway to create a passage for the kiddos to get outside.

At the far end of this little passage I will put an access gate across from the panel attached to the barn.

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I’m getting there!

You’re getting there!

 

[featherhead007]

Well I am hedging my bets for any future hatching. Right now I am all planned out with chicks:

- 10 I have on order (5, Brahma & 5, Bielefelder)
- 6 already i the bator…..
- 2 eggs from Penelope go in tomorrow
- 1 hopeful silkie Roo…

So if even 2 of the 6 in the bator hatch that’s a dozen chicks in a couple weeks.
And if 1 of Penelope’s hatches now I am at 13, and let’s not forget that little Silkie Roo, hmmmm 14?

And what happens if they all hatch? And they are all Roos??

Roos need love too!

 

[Ponypoor]

Maybe her WI-FI is broken in the laying box?

She just vacated her nest….. and there is an egg

I really have no idea what breed Sophia is but she lays a nice egg.

 

[Ponypoor]

Roos need love too!

Not 9 of them!!! Plus Mr P

 

[featherhead007]

I hear ya, it’s not one thing, it’s another…..

Meanwhile I have Sophia in the nest box screaming about something…. She hasn’t laid her egg yet.

Show her this, it might cheer her up:

 

[featherhead007]

SHRA tax:

 

[BY Bob]

Well she is the Queen, and Hattie is her second in command so it seems! I have to laugh at the image of you catching her being flogged by Hattie, kind gentle Hattie

I moved before Hattie could get me. I saw her coming. Not my first chicken collection rodeo.

 

[BY Bob]

I gabe 1.5 doz egg of Mr P fertilized eggs to my friends daughter along with 6 for myself.

The silkies will be polish x silkie (Polkies if you will). And the other eggs will of course be 1/2 Polish that I am getting.

Then we got to talking, and to get new blood into her flock we am going to bring one of her Roos here to fertilize the silkies only. Mr P can still run around boinking the other ladies.

To do this I will need to keep my gals separate from Mr P for 3 weeks so his sperm goes bye bye and the silkie Roo can be in quarantine that time.

Then I will let him in with the silkie gals and in about a week should have some fertilized eggs that are pure silkie. I do not want any of my girls chicks but one of her ladies chicks if it’s a Roo I would take (fresh genetic material for my gals if I ever hatch eggs again).

She doesn’t want to risk getting silkies from somewhere right now, with AI so prevalent right now. We both pretty much keep our flocks contained. Not to mention who knows what other diseases are out there! Both of us have closed herds - we have brought anything in for a couple years.

After a month her Roo will go home and my gals can go back to the main flock.

Only upset is with any broodies….

I like the white Roo he is a pet, and he used to follow me around when he was young.

Ok. That does make some sense.