Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

The Rockettes are being angry with each other today. Shenandoah and Coco got into a fight. Flash is picking on everyone.

Are they thinking about broody, too?

 

[RoyalChick]

We can help you with that. Rebecca and bgmath and Kris are experienced broody handlers.

She is so big and her pecks really hurt. I can’t see hauling her off a nest to make her eat without injury!
But indeed, if that is what happens I will lean on my FBA friends to help me through it.
If I had to guess I would guess Babs would be first to go broody. She seems the motherly type, and more concretely she always sits in her egg for a long time after she has laid it.

 

[rural mouse]

She is so big and her pecks really hurt. I can’t see hauling her off a nest to make her eat without injury!
But indeed, if that is what happens I will lean on my FBA friends to help me through it.
If I had to guess I would guess Babs would be first to go broody. She seems the motherly type, and more concretely she always sits in her egg for a long time after she has laid it.

Some broodies (Momma Ol' Bat) are hands off. She also gets off on her own. Creative solutions will be found if/when they're needed. We got you on this.

 

[RoyalChick]

A bit blurry - but here she is relocating the ceramic egg into the adjacent dish bowl.

 

[GregnLety]

I was thinking mouse snacks!

Me too!

 

[Ponypoor]

I swear they do this just to worry me.
This morning I touch down at 5am after the redeye flight from LAX.
First thing I do is check my chicken cameras knowing that all I will see is Bernie because I can’t get a camera to see up into the rafters where the Math Majors roost.
Imagine my shock when this is what I see.
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This raises many questions:
How did little Eli get the most favored roost spot where she can warm her tush against the flat panel heater?
What is her bodyguard, Babs, watching so intently?
And, WHERE IS BERNADETTE??? I mean she is a big chicken to lose sight of!
I check all the cameras and there is no sign of her.
By this stage my mind has gone to every dark place and I am getting quite upset.
I search the feeds from the cameras for the night and finally find one that shows her marching into the nest boxes at about midnight.
And indeed, that is where I found her. Sitting peacefully on her newly laid egg and a ceramic egg.
Wait, what? That ceramic egg had been disposed of by Babs. Where did it come from?
Yet another mystery from the night.
No worries, Bernie is large and in charge as ever.
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Oh I know that feeling! Which is why I got a Pan Tilt camera along with the fixed camera hahaha.

This way when I am 4000km away I don’t have to worry all night until mum gets up and does chores.

My Pan Tilt

My fixed camera

 

[Ponypoor]

No no no!
I confess to being rather intimidated by Bernie at the best of times. If she starts going broody I will be very scared.

But, that could be a blessing! You can give her a couple chicks to raise! She will teach them everything!

 

[Ponypoor]

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Awwwww hi Thing how are you beautiful - good choice

The Rockettes are being angry with each other today. Shenandoah and Coco got into a fight. Flash is picking on everyone.

Sounds like some chickies are going broody!

She is so big and her pecks really hurt. I can’t see hauling her off a nest to make her eat without injury!
But indeed, if that is what happens I will lean on my FBA friends to help me through it.
If I had to guess I would guess Babs would be first to go broody. She seems the motherly type, and more concretely she always sits in her egg for a long time after she has laid it.

Well Sophia steals eggs and sits in the box for hours after she lays her egg, she even pecks me and growls at me, but she has never gone broody!

A bit blurry - but here she is relocating the ceramic egg into the adjacent dish bowl.

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wow she is very determined!

Oh you’re doomed, doomed I say! But… it’s a great thing for her to raise chicks if she is boss mare her chicks will be high placed

 

[LhickenChicken]

A bit blurry - but here she is relocating the ceramic egg into the adjacent dish bowl.

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wait who went broody?

 

[featherhead007]

Are they thinking about broody, too?

I doubt that. They don’t sit on their eggs for very long.