Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

News and such…

I have accepted a job from a company that does civil work with pipelines and such; it’s full time no contract stuff, 21 days working and 7 days off, I will be in British Columbia and will fly home for my days off.

So Alex will have to make up for any absences I will have here, and I hope I don’t miss any news, anyone wishing to jibber-jabber with me please feel free to PM me

Here is Pretty Boy Floyd
Mr P is making it his mission these days to flog him regularly.
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Congrats!

And Floyd is getting educated on proper behavior.

 

[Ponypoor]

Happy Friday!

From Glynda
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Elphie
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And the greatest hen ever, Daisy
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Just love those jaunty tails

 

[Ponypoor]

Ugh…. 5am, come on boys it’s dark still!

Just checked the barns cams everyone was sleeping and then they just all started crowing, sheesh!

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

I wanna go flying no destination planned, no flight numbers registered, no flight checks performed (yet)
It takes a purpose to perform this hobby! It’s not like a car, where you can hop in and take a drive, unannounced.
Actually I don’t need a destination for taking off. I can do a systems check at the runway. Notifying the ground crew of my intention to do a circle and then landing check. OR… I could just stay home here with my chickens and go crazy!

What type of plane to you have? Is it a private plane or jet?

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

And as far as going to the coast is, I don’t need to go there, there’s plenty of spineless jellyfish people right here in town!

Oh gosh, I hear enough about the FAA! I’m in a school club called FFA (Future Farmers of America) and he is always like,”How did FAA go?”

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

I had a lifelong friend die from a brain tumor. He had been my friend since junior high school. And we went everywhere together. Even received our private pilots license at the same place and time. As he was progressing in his sickness, his friend was always there to help him with whatever he needed. He took him to church, took him to museums and amusement parks. Gave him a good time while he progressed into oblivion. Now he’s at peace and I’m kinda jealous of that. I WAS A TRUE FRIEND, he told me.
I’m proud to have been his friend!
Rest well now with the angels Brian. When I’m done with this project, I’ll be coming to see you!

 

[Ponypoor]

What breed(s) are giving you the pink eggs?

My silkies give me peachy-pink eggs

The front eggs are from red and black sex-link hens, that egg in the back is my silkie hen Fluffy’s.

 

[featherhead007]

What type of plane to you have? Is it a private plane or jet?

Cessna SkyHawk 172

 

[featherhead007]

Oh gosh, I hear enough about the FAA! I’m in a school club called FFA (Future Farmers of America) and he is always like,”How did FAA go?”

My FAA is a little different than yours, I’m pretty sure.
We don’t require a green hand to join.
But being able to fly, is certainly a plus.

 

[Ponypoor]

Exactly, I haven’t seen Popcorn poop so will watch her. I will wait for now to hear back from the vet. I could arrange a flock check again, or a visit for these two. Popcorn and Hazel have never been x-rayed, maybe that would show something. I did email those poo pics and description to the vet, they expressed interest in updates on Butters, and I’ve communicated with her with an update since the last visit about Butters and she replied.

I feel depressed about it though, this might be Popcorn or Hazel, on top of Butters teetering on the edge of dying so underweight for unknown reasons, and Peanut’s passing so recently, and losing the two new little ones was very hard. Treating whoever it is early might lessen the scarring and give whoever it is a better chance in the future, but it’s not good news for whoever it is. I spent my time outside today with them and hand feeding Hazel, & trying to make progress on the run expansion for the chicks, but not much with the actual chicks today until this evening, it was rainy for most of the day. Spent time tonight inside with them and made a new set of things to fly and jump on with the walker repurposed, but that’s all.

Can the chicks go on the run litter that’s been there for about a year now, or is it potentially too big a dose of whatever things the hens might be carrying around in them? I usually rake it out and replace it once a year in the Fall and haven’t done that yet. That’s the sheltered part of the run with electric and I could have them out there in a protected see no touch corner even in the rain and have their brooder plate with them during the day too.

One of the other issues when having animals is having them all the same age, so when they get old they all seem to pass at the same time.

As for putting the chicks out in the run - mine were running around on the ground where all my older hens were - they were stepping in chicken poop and digging through yummy horse poop from an early age. They would pick at heaven knows what in the barn and much to my stress level picking at the poop from the barn swallow nest - I tried to keep that swept up as much as I could, when they got a bit older they learned what to actually eat.

And even with mama hens showing them what to eat, the chicks still picked at ‘crap’. I have seen baby animals eating poop all the time, even my foals would eat poop - ewwww! My vet told me it’s how they get their intestine biome in place.