Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

I don't think everyone living alone feels lonely.

This is true, it depends on a person temperament, and most have pets like cats and dogs. Or chickens!!

Settle down kiddies pick a spot and relax!

 

[TX Chick Noob]

@BY Bob @RoyalChick (And anyone else but wanted to make sure they see this.)

I guess I have been living under a rock because I just found out about the new antibiotic rules. Chewy still has several fish variations. (Which they may continue to have, someone said the new rules don’t apply to fish antibiotics but so don’t trust the source.) My finances are really tight right now, and this stuff is expensive, but I want to buy two oral antibiotics and a tube of terramycin. So my question is, which should I buy? I have found these:
Amoxicillin
Ciprofloxacin
Cephalexin
Metronidazole

I am looking for a place that still has Baytril (edit: without a prescription) if you think that one is more important than what I listed.

 

[TX Chick Noob]

I know it's Friday, but this is too funny. Taken last night. Havoc is VERY appropriately named.
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Now for some butts.View attachment 3552701Shan and Enigma

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View attachment 3552703Enigma is using "her" (dunno yet) long wings to hide the fluff

View attachment 3552704Western tanager(you're not a chicken!)

View attachment 3552706Zulu and Havoc

That first one needs to go in the caption contest.

 

[Ponypoor]

I know it's Friday, but this is too funny. Taken last night. Havoc is VERY appropriately named.
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Now for some butts.View attachment 3552701Shan and Enigma

View attachment 3552702Zulu

View attachment 3552703Enigma is using "her" (dunno yet) long wings to hide the fluff

View attachment 3552704Western tanager(you're not a chicken!)

View attachment 3552706Zulu and Havoc

That requires a caption!

“Giddy up big mama”

 

[Lilion]

So this morning Eenie was up on the roosts with the other chickens! I wish the darn hen would make up her mind! Get on those eggs you little stinker!

 

[rural mouse]

That first one needs to go in the caption contest.

Don't the captions get pulled from POW? Already posted it there.

 

[Ponypoor]

Don't the captions get pulled from POW? Already posted it there.

I think so - I have not seen a place to submit them. But that is an awesome photo

 

[Ponypoor]

So this morning Eenie was up on the roosts with the other chickens! I wish the darn hen would make up her mind! Get on those eggs you little stinker!

Do you have a crate to put her in? Your nest box is a busy place so maybe she needs a more quiet place to just concentrate on the eggs

 

[RoyalChick]

Heat has been pretty brutal.

Hooman, why is it so hot!?! Make it stop!
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But the girls have been enjoying their HydroHen/blueberry “popsicles”. Here is a ziplock bag full of them.
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I put them in the base of a waterer. Sometimes I add a little water.
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Pecking at the blueberries in an almost melted ice cube.
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Great idea. Gonna copy that!

 

[Lilion]

Do you have a crate to put her in? Your nest box is a busy place so maybe she needs a more quiet place to just concentrate on the eggs

It's true they all 3 use the same box. We do still have our small coop we used when they were little. It was too small for full-sized chickens, but not for just 1. I had thought of taking the bedding out and putting her there when I wanted her to stop being broody. I could try putting her and the eggs there. It's kind of far from the main coop, but we could move it....

My husband suggested we build in a "brooding area" into our new run when we build it. I knew chicken math would get him eventually.

But maybe she's just not ready...kind of pre-broody? Like PMS? Is that a thing? She is just right at a 11-12 months old.