Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[notabitail]

Now what?
I am doing a beak check before bed. Somehow counting to five is harder than it seems when the littles are all racing around.
Then I do a last minute check on Eli and am totally confused.
After some early back and forth she had been nested on the top level with the golf ball and the ceramic egg.
Now she has moved to the lower level where there is a single ceramic egg which I had left there because it seemed to help Bernadette decide where to lay.
Did Eli just get confused? Maybe she rumbled that the golf ball wasn't viable?
Please tell me she isn't going to start the whole 21 day thing again from the start!

I removed the golf ball and the ceramic egg from the top level - do you think that was the right thing to do? Should I give her the golf ball back in her lower nest (that can't be right!).
In the morning I anticipate Babs will squeeze in with Eli and lay in the same box. I doubt Bernie will lay tomorrow so that is a problem for another day.
Any advice most welcome.

I also cannot fathom how some of you deal with multiple of these crazy ladies at the same time!

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I would just leave the golf ball and fake eggs alone. Then again, I've never had a broody.
Whatever you do, no using golf clubs to get the golf ball out of there.

 

[RoyalChick]

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Does anyone know why Agathae has a bit of blue on the comb?

It does look a bit blue. Did she get any frostbite this past winter? Probably not given where you live, but the reason I thought of it is that Maggie had a touch of frostbite her first winter and although she didn't lose any of her comb, the affected part of her comb often looked a little blue.
Sorry - this might be one for the diseases forum - someone there might have experience.

 

[notabitail]

It does look a bit blue. Did she get any frostbite this past winter? Probably not given where you live, but the reason I thought of it is that Maggie had a touch of frostbite her first winter and although she didn't lose any of her comb, the affected part of her comb often looked a little blue.
Sorry - this might be one for the diseases forum - someone there might have experience.

I doubt she had frostbite at all.
It did snow a bit once this winter. It melted by the time I woke up.
I may just have to ask over there.

 

[Ponypoor]

Now what?
I am doing a beak check before bed. Somehow counting to five is harder than it seems when the littles are all racing around.
Then I do a last minute check on Eli and am totally confused.
After some early back and forth she had been nested on the top level with the golf ball and the ceramic egg.
Now she has moved to the lower level where there is a single ceramic egg which I had left there because it seemed to help Bernadette decide where to lay.
Did Eli just get confused? Maybe she rumbled that the golf ball wasn't viable?
Please tell me she isn't going to start the whole 21 day thing again from the start!

I removed the golf ball and the ceramic egg from the top level - do you think that was the right thing to do? Should I give her the golf ball back in her lower nest (that can't be right!).
In the morning I anticipate Babs will squeeze in with Eli and lay in the same box. I doubt Bernie will lay tomorrow so that is a problem for another day.
Any advice most welcome.

I also cannot fathom how some of you deal with multiple of these crazy ladies at the same time!

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Nope she won't start again

She just got confused or for whatever reason decided that nest was better.

I had a couple do that last year, I just put them back onto their proper nest. She should stay there on her proper nest

 

[RoyalChick]

Nope she won't start again

She just got confused or for whatever reason decided that nest was better.

I had a couple do that last year, I just put them back onto their proper nest. She should stay there.

Oh. You think I should move her back up to where she was?
I was thinking to just leave her alone and when we get to the 21 day mark mess up both nests and remove the remaining ceramic egg.
Does that sound OK to you?

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh. You think I should move her back up to where she was?
I was thinking to just leave her alone and when we get to the 21 day mark mess up both nests and remove the remaining ceramic egg.
Does that sound OK to you?

I was just thinking if Bernie was wanting to lay her egg there, I would just remove the egg/golf ball I n her nest she doesn’t need them anyways.

Oh these broodies! Drive is crazy!

 

[Ponypoor]

Sleepy time

Whiskers has that whole corner to herself!

And Wee Rico - well like father like son! Maybe Rico needs to sleep on a shelf like his dada

 

[lightm]

So glad to see Wendy up and about - I was about to ask how she was and you answered right away haha!

I read your mind, girl!

 

[lightm]

That is amazing! There is something I can do with that. Maybe a where on Hattie is your home town?

Hahaha. I live at her fluffy butt!!! Nobody can top that.

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh. You think I should move her back up to where she was?
I was thinking to just leave her alone and when we get to the 21 day mark mess up both nests and remove the remaining ceramic egg.
Does that sound OK to you?

Mine didn’t even need eggs or golf balls to sit on ! How crazy is that! And that Dorothy - 5 weeks - maybe I shouldn’t have kept taking her off the nest, maybe if I hadn’t she might have come off herself hungry!