Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

That is a lovely tree. They often grow by streams - do you have a feel or something there?

I just heard someone crowing in the Chicken Palace again. No idea who.
It wasn’t a full on cocorico - but a pretty full on corico. So more developed than last time.
I cannot figure out who it can be.

It’s fairly low here, and the area is classified as the Thornton Swamp

I planted two of them in a low section of the land here to help control ponding. They sure have grown well.

You need a rooster Penne is still here - just saying!!

My nieces hens want something, likely want to roam around a bit.

 

[LhickenChicken]

I made my first article. I don't know how to link it. I'm pretty sure that you can go to my profile and see it.
It's kinda my story of how I have come to better own and take care of guineas, and my story of keeping them.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/my-story-of-keeping-guinea-fowl.78789/

 

[LhickenChicken]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/my-story-of-keeping-guinea-fowl.78789/

Here, I linked it for you.

 

[Ponypoor]

Age of pullets & cockerels

Tippy is now 14 weeks old
And so are her naughty brothers Rico and Floyd

Penne is 12 weeks old

School chicks will be 11 weeks tomorrow.

I would say 16 weeks for the cockerels to be processed (school chicks) and the others also if no takers for re-homing. Which at this point no one has expressed any interest in Penne.

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Age of pullets & cocker

Tippy is now 14 weeks old
And so are her naughty brothers Rico and Floyd

Penne is 12 weeks old

School chicks will be 11 weeks tomorrow.

I would say 16 weeks for the cockerels to be processed (school chicks) and the others also if no takers for re-homing. Which at this point no one has expressed any interest in Penne.

Maybe you could make a few advertisements on here and other social media sites like FB?

I don't think any of us want Penne to be gone. Although, you gotta do what you gotta do. You can't have a hundred cockerels running around fighting.

 

[LhickenChicken]

I would say 16 weeks for the cockerels to be processed (school chicks) and the others also if no takers for re-homing. Which at this point no one has expressed any interest in Penne.

That's sad. You gotta do what you gotta do, though. At least the cocks will have had a nice life with you.

 

[LhickenChicken]

Age of pullets & cocker

Tippy is now 14 weeks old
And so are her naughty brothers Rico and Floyd

Penne is 12 weeks old

School chicks will be 11 weeks tomorrow.

I would say 16 weeks for the cockerels to be processed (school chicks) and the others also if no takers for re-homing. Which at this point no one has expressed any interest in Penne.

I didn't even need to reply to this... But how many pullets are among the 'school chicks'?

 

[bgmathteach]

Fence was on! The bottom chord is not hot so it doesn’t short out, so a clever chicken can burrow under!

You might want to use a few fence staples (you know, the long thin 'u' shaped metal things they sell to hold ground cloth down). That way they can't get under.

Have any of them gotten zapped? Intentionally training them to the fence, along with the staples, may help significantly.

 

[RoyalChick]

You might want to use a few fence staples (you know, the long thin 'u' shaped metal things they sell to hold ground cloth down). That way they can't get under.

Have any of them gotten zapped? Intentionally training them to the fence, along with the staples, may help significantly.

It is hard to train chickens to the fence until they have a full comb because their feathers are good insulators.
Even Babs I think hasn't got zapped because her comb is too small. Bernie definitely has been zapped.
I will try some staples if I can figure out where they are going - it is 250' or so of fence so a lot of staples unless I go for targeted areas!

 

[Ponypoor]

I didn't even need to reply to this... But how many pullets are among the 'school chicks'?

7 out of the 10, I sold two of the pullets. So I have 5 pullets and the 3 cockerels remaining.

I also have Tippy who should be laying in the next month. She is Rico’s full sister, Sophia is their egg mum.

All in all I have had a good cockerel to pullet ratio.

So cockerels are:
Rico
Floyd
Penne
Seagull
Spot
Diamond

Plus Mr P - 4 of them are crowing, I am hoping the other 3 do not crow at all.

I will keep them here all happy and content till they are about 16 weeks, start weighing and maybe keeping them in and feed them up a few weeks before processing.

They are not meat birds but any stretch of the imagination but hey 100 yrs ago people ate their barnyard mutts.