Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[notabitail]

One of the most amazing things ever! We should call you Doc!

She should be two kinds: a chicken one and a math one.

(I still don't like math though. Unless it's chicken math.)

 

[BY Bob]

It is bolted to the manger - with rusty bolts that won't come off - it is somewhere around 40+ years old. The guy who originally owned this house logged with horses...he had a horrible accident and died shortly thereafter in the early to mid 80s (vehicle accident - hit by a drunk driver when he was transporting his horses - the story goes)

And, teh DC girls are lower on the pecking order and get tossed off the nests - and she will hop back into any nest that has eggs - hence they won't hatch- hence why I usually have them brood in my broody house - but it needs repairing - and maybe refiguring.

Sounds like it's time for some repairs. Get the drill and saw out and get to work.

 

[BY Bob]

Because underneath, she's not a black bird, but a partridge color (I think).

This is kind of cool.

 

[BY Bob]

Legbar. Leg=Leghorn, Bar=Barred Rock.

Check out my post. Much more complicated than that.

 

[BY Bob]

She should be two kinds: a chicken one and a math one.

(I still don't like math though. Unless it's chicken math.)

Double Doc!

 

[notabitail]

Check out my post. Much more complicated than that.

I did read it. As far as I know that's what the name means though.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Yes that is my hope, next month the silkies will be sequestered in the Summer House with the borrowed silkie Roo, Mr Bert will be on his own at that point. I am trying to decide if I will keep Betty with the silkies or with the main gang.

I have my calendar set for the 18th of March to bring Mr Silkie here. He will stay for about 6 weeks. 3 weeks to get the girls used to him, and for the girls to get rid of any of Mr P’s genetic material. And three weeks to get eggs together for my niece - hopefully no one goes broody!!

Henny should be good and done with being broody, Marty also should be ok, Fluffy and Curly are just finishing moulting so hopefully they have no desire to go broody!

If any of the other girls in my main herd go broody I might get some Peavey chicks. I won’t hatch my own chicks. I aim tired of dealing with cockerels, I will have to deal with the eggs my niece hatches at her school though.

My opinion, thinking of their mental well-being - Bert and Betty are so young, and she will hardly be laying yet, they both might benefit stress-wise by having their hatch mate buddy and their broody mama around with them during this time, even if right now they aren't spending all their time with each other, because you're going to be imposing a big change, confining a bunch of the flock and disrupting the usual routines they expect. Just a thought.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

The gang are sleeping similarly each night for a couple nights now: Anna getting in early and perching on the nestbox/platform divider, it seems to prevent anyone from sleeping in the nestbox. On the platform roost I think that's Popcorn near the door and Hazel in the middle, the other two Spuds in the back corner. Good night!

 

[bgmathteach]

She should be two kinds: a chicken one and a math one.

(I still don't like math though. Unless it's chicken math.)

No, I would rather not have to do surgery again It was extremely stressful - I did it because if I didn't try, she would have died - so I hoped to give her a chance, but I was so afraid I would kill her with surgery. I am happy that she lived despite me - but I could not have had the courage to do it without the support of @BY Bob & @RoyalChick and watching a couple of videos. That said, I did a far Less Eloquent surgery than those on you tube.

 

[notabitail]

No, I would rather not have to do surgery again

Well then, just a math one. Which is just fine.

(I actually know a math doctor from church. Great guy. That tuna he caught was always so good).