Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ValarieF]

Chooks got treats and we got smoke advisory from fires.

 

[Ponypoor]

Ok this now makes me concerned for Tomatilla. She has a PEA comb for goodness sake. And in the rafters (aka top of the rabbit hutch). The fan blows on the rabbits. I have it oscillating so that the chickens in the coop get it aswell.

I am sure she will come down when she gets too hot - chickens are pretty smart beasties. I have found.... too smart in my opinion!

 

[notabitail]

What I did, and restarted the computer
Stuuuuupid computer.

I think @Ponypoor was some kind of IT person. She may have a solution for you.

 

[LhickenChicken]

I am sure she will come down when she gets too hot - chickens are pretty smart beasties. I have found.... too smart in my opinion!

But what if she doesn't want to leave her eggs?

 

[bgmathteach]

No kites this far north. It was flying with long narrow tail (not fanned out) and narrow wings. Everything I've looked at has broad wings or fanned tail except the Kestrel. If it was a Kestrel (we do have them around here), it was large for one, but not excessively so. Light was sort of behind it to colors were hard to see. Looked to be roughly the same size as Nellie, my leghorn, so smaller than most of but not all of my birds (excluding the babies).

We had a Kestrel get one of our chickens when we first moved here. She couldn't even lift the hen...she tried eating it right there....my husband was nearby and ran over, but she was already dead. Squeezed her neck with her talons and don't know exactly what caused the death - suffocation or exsanguination - or a combo. The girl was a decent sized hen, too, not one of my smaller ones......Kestrels are fearless.

 

[Ponypoor]

I'd have to dig a fan out that will fit up there. Now she is busy forgetting how to be broody by taking a dust bath. They are out most of the day. I remember Shad said that taking the eggs out of his hens' nests snapped them out of it. Seems that it worked here. No broody cage needed. I would not be able to stick her in there. She would have ended up sitting on my lap with a jar of mealworms.

I just remove the eggs (AKA golf balls) and 3 or 4 times a day or how ever often I can, I drag them off the nest to eat, drink, poop.... until they are finished being broody. I don't ever force them, I found it a waste of time anyways.

 

[LhickenChicken]

I think @Ponypoor was some kind of IT person. She may have a solution for you.

I think the restart did it though. I hadn't restarted my computer in...
When the first person sinned, that's when I restarted my computer.

 

[notabitail]

I just remove the eggs (AKA golf balls) and 3 or 4 times a day or how ever often I can, I drag them off the nest to eat, drink, poop.... until they are finished being broody. I don't ever force them, I found it a waste of time anyways.

I can't force them to do anything except get in the coop if something bad is going to happen or I need to put them away to eat my dinner.

 

[notabitail]

I think the restart did it though. I hadn't restarted my computer in...
When the first person sinned, that's when I restarted my computer.

Turn it off at night and on at day. I do this with mine. The thing rarely has issues. Leaving it on too long can cause performance issues.

 

[featherhead007]