Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

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Princess is complaining and Tina is loving her life
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Whoa! Princess is a mucky girl! She must be enjoying dirt bathing like my kiddos!

Good morning ladies!

 

[Ponypoor]

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Hello geegees you are all very pretty

 

[Ponypoor]

So, chicken update from Mathematical Acres (note that, abbreviated, it is MA? ha, ha)

So far, my broody BR has stuck to sitting, and with me taking her off the next every morning and locking her out (thanks to @RebeccaBoyd 's suggestion with my WR), she poops, eats drinks, and when I leave her long enough (most days), she sits & preens. She has 5 eggs under her (I put six, but she kicked one out with in 48 hours. ?How do they know so quickly?!? Now, one of my DC is broody. I set eggs with her Friday night, but Hubby forgot and collected her eggs yesterday. I had her last laid egg under her - she hasn't laid since Thursday.... I will 'reset' her tonight with some eggs from today. (he collected and washed all the eggs, so I couldn't rescue hers) So, I should have more chicks hatching next weekend, and then some in 3 weeks time. I must say, I really am upset about hubby collecting the eggs because I like to set them on Thursday night or Friday, so they hatch on the weekend when I am around.

And, my WR chicks are growing like weeds! They are about 3 weeks old (tomorrow & Tuesday). One is cross-beaked, but seems to still be thriving atm. I make sure there is a 'deep dish' of feed so it can bury its beak in it and eat. Of course, the Cross beak appears to be a pullet.

@rural mouse & @RebeccaBoyd here are some pics from this morning: Who is Roo & Who is Pullet?

#1 & 2 (1 in front - light color, #2 in back, dark/barred)
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#1 front and center, #3 back left. #4, headless (moved too quick!)
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#4
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#5 # 3 & 5 are very similar in coloring - I can only tell them apart if they are together (i.e. if you took one of them out, and I couldn't see the other, I wouldn't be sure which one it was.) One of them has a slightly smaller comb.
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Spoiler: What I am guessing for R/P

I think #1, 3, & 4 are Roos. #2 has the cross beak. #5s comb is more pea like than #3s, so being a bit smaller but wider is not necessarily a tell. I think in another week I will have a better idea. #1 & 4 ACT like Roos, though!

Uh oh! Dog house for someone! I put dates on my hatch eggs and the name of the hen from. That might help in the future with your hubby. Also is someone lays extra eggs with your broody you will know

Gosh those chicks are just huge now! Sorry about the cross beak - poor wee thing. Can you take a pic so I can see I have not seen one before.

 

[Ponypoor]

Pony Sunday

I had the chooks out front on the grass but the mosquitoes were so bad I brought them back into the run. It is drizzly with no wind, perfect mosquito weather.

The horses have their tails going and heads shaking with the miserable mosquitoes attacking them.

Lulu is way at the back we’re the mosquitoes are likely just crazy bad!

Reenie and Truly are sticking to the more clearer close cropped grass, but I bet they will be up here by the barn soon!

Still haven’t got to that paddock with the buttercups, I’ll have to mow it down before spraying now.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I am checking in with an update on Eli and it makes me very sad.
She is seriously ill - probably terminal though I haven't given up hope.
You may remember she was poorly before she went broody and has been fine through her broody period and adopting the little Pentagonists.
On Friday afternoon however she took a sudden turn for the worse.
I could not get a vet appointment earlier than Monday afternoon and I am not certain she will last that long.
She is comfortable and has chosen a secluded spot in the Chicken Palace. Babs and the little ones have all stopped by to visit and sit with her.
Poor little flying chicken, she is sadly grounded right now.

I’m so sorry, RC.
Coincidence that she seemed better when she was broody and babysitting, or actually was better, unrelated? Maybe she appeared that way because she was summoning everything she had to care for the babies? Such a wonderful flying chicken!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

This update does not surprise me although saddens me. I lost the very tiny silkie mix. I have been worried about this chick since the moment it hatched. I have never had one hatch that tiny, even a pure silkie. It ate and drank and I even treated it since day 1 with save a chick. At 5 days old it never grew. Yes it was sporting wing feathers instead of down but it was clearly failing to thrive. This past week has just sucked. I am very close to being mentally done with chicks this season.

This is a string of bad luck, I’m sorry! You and Raven did all you could.

 

[bgmathteach]

So, chicken update from Mathematical Acres (note that, abbreviated, it is MA? ha, ha)

So far, my broody BR has stuck to sitting, and with me taking her off the next every morning and locking her out (thanks to @RebeccaBoyd 's suggestion with my WR), she poops, eats drinks, and when I leave her long enough (most days), she sits & preens. She has 5 eggs under her (I put six, but she kicked one out with in 48 hours. ?How do they know so quickly?!? Now, one of my DC is broody. I set eggs with her Friday night, but Hubby forgot and collected her eggs yesterday. I had her last laid egg under her - she hasn't laid since Thursday.... I will 'reset' her tonight with some eggs from today. (he collected and washed all the eggs, so I couldn't rescue hers) So, I should have more chicks hatching next weekend, and then some in 3 weeks time. I must say, I really am upset about hubby collecting the eggs because I like to set them on Thursday night or Friday, so they hatch on the weekend when I am around.

And, my WR chicks are growing like weeds! They are about 3 weeks old (tomorrow & Tuesday). One is cross-beaked, but seems to still be thriving atm. I make sure there is a 'deep dish' of feed so it can bury its beak in it and eat. Of course, the Cross beak appears to be a pullet.

@rural mouse & @RebeccaBoyd here are some pics from this morning: Who is Roo & Who is Pullet?

#1 & 2 (1 in front - light color, #2 in back, dark/barred)
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#1 front and center, #3 back left. #4, headless (moved too quick!)
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#4
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#5 # 3 & 5 are very similar in coloring - I can only tell them apart if they are together (i.e. if you took one of them out, and I couldn't see the other, I wouldn't be sure which one it was.) One of them has a slightly smaller comb.
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Spoiler: What I am guessing for R/P

I think #1, 3, & 4 are Roos. #2 has the cross beak. #5s comb is more pea like than #3s, so being a bit smaller but wider is not necessarily a tell. I think in another week I will have a better idea. #1 & 4 ACT like Roos, though!

Oh, btw: @RebeccaBoyd Notice the legs on #4? This is a Cuckoo Marans cross. Your BRs will look just like this ONLY with yellow instead of white legs - but with this same (or more) 'dusting' of black.

 

[featherhead007]

If they poop they aren’t fake

(I love your BR they are great)

“I’m not fake, and I poop a lot, but it’s sweet poop ! “

 

[BY Bob]

Found the whole song thats in that starbucks commercial I love the song.
Chooks got treats. Love the movie. Anyone else a tech.computer. movie geek?

That's very clever of you. Great job!

 

[ManueB]

Pony Sunday, long horse ramble.

I went to see old Gribouille this morning. He has been living alone for a few months now the mare that was with him has passed. We try to go see him every week and the old neighbor Claude still comes at least four times a week. Still he always whinny when I leave him, I think he's lonely.

Also I wanted to share some news about the rescued Arabian horse See you I also talked about last year. He has been having problem with his feet ever since he's been here. The first farrier that came to shoe him screwed the job, and it turned out he has really fragile hooves. In summer they are dry and crack and in winter and spring he has thrush. He has to stay on soft ground and that means he can't go on our paths and tracks. His owner couldn't find another farrier that agreed to come up here to have his feet trimmed. Two months ago, there was one that agreed to see her horse in a village down the valley. She didn't expect any problem, but they never managed to get See you in the trailer. Before he was abandoned, he used to go every weekend in a truck to race, but that was more than 18 months ago.
All that to say I'm really glad I changed my mind and did not get ponies like I intended. Chaco's sudden passing made me realize that a horse needs specialized care, and we just can't get it here.