Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

Morning visitor. YearlingView attachment 3864201

Cute. I had a late night visitor.

 

[featherhead007]

Thanks to all for the Father’s Day wishes. I had forgotten about this day. Thank you for the reminder.

 

[featherhead007]

Cute. I had a late night visitor.
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[fuentemoon]

"Please can we go outside?"
"No! Get away from that door."

 

[RoyalChick]

"Please can we go outside?"
"No! Get away from that door."
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Caption competition. POW. Submit to them all. It is adorable!

 

[Ponypoor]

37F this morning...that's something like 2.5C. Unusual to be this chilly. Mera is glued to the nest and I say good. Eggs/babies (no idea which) are warm.

brrr! yes very chilly even for you I am sure! I am so eager to see what Mera has there lots of babies this year.

 

[ManueB]

The three I have left are allowed to roost and are considerably larger than the Orps were. Much faster growing breed. I think they will be okay honestly. The Orps wouldn’t go to roost yet especially Ryka with her lack sight in one eye.

I have put in a call for a quote on getting a new coop and run built. I have been wanting to do so for a while and this is my sign .

I'm sorry for Ryka. Somehow even if we know there's a chance they will leave us, it makes it more difficult when we take care of a weak or unwell chook and try to heal it.

I'm wondering about your coop. It seems you built it very recently and it looked really confy on the video you did. Are you sure there is no mean to secure it rather than go with a completely new coop ? At least when you work with the existing you know what the issues are. I'm not sure builders would know how to make a coop secure for chicks and the type of predators you have.

Egg Swap!

The egg swap has occurred. I did it in pitch black night conditions in order to add another level of control. It was sadly not uneventful.

I have been assaulted. Really vicious pecking by both of them when pulled off the nests. Of course they would probably say they were assaulted. I guess it depends on your point of view. No blood was drawn on either side. So that's good.

Glynda was good. She sat on the scale while I swapped out her eggs for the fertile ones. I put her back in and we were good to go.

Unfortunately, Lady Featherington was less patient. Mrs BY Bob could not control her. She got off the scale and onto the ground and I had to round her up. She was unhappy but did settle back onto the fertile eggs.

Glynda now has 4 eggs, 2 Polish, 2 Orpington.

Lady Featherington now has 7 eggs, 5 Polish, 2 Orpington.

Hatch day should be around July 7th.

I candled the eggs prior to setting them and found no cracks of any kind.

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Keep you fingers crossed everyone. Here we go.

How exciting! Congratulations on success and making it alive. A new adventure for Glynda and Lady F., and for everyone at FBA !
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Ok, you broodies specialist, I have a broody jail question. I don't usually do that but my tiny senior bantam Chipie is on the 25 day and won't give up, in spite of being locked out of the coop every afternoon.
I am using for jail a crate on trestles at the entrance of the coop. I have put her in this crate at night for the last week, but she still sits trying to hatch the roost. Today I tried putting her in the crate at day time and she sits on the floor made of mesh. What could I do to improve the jail ?

 

[Ponypoor]

"Please can we go outside?"
"No! Get away from that door."
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I finally had to drag Curly out with her two last week. This morning I noticed them flying up on everything freaking poor Curly hahaha.

They sure do grow fast don't they? your two are getting some beautiful feathers there, just love the spots.

 

[Ponypoor]

Caption competition. POW. Submit to them all. It is adorable!

Agreed!

 

[rural mouse]

brrr! yes very chilly even for you I am sure! I am so eager to see what Mera has there lots of babies this year.

I'm antsy too. I keep going out an poking at her. She doesn't scream at me but does take a swipe. So far, she's glued. I found part of an egg with dead baby yesterday, squished. Thinking maybe first to try hatching and she reacted to the movement or one of the others tried to invade... As glued as she is to it, I suspect there's a lot more going on under her and she's settled down. PITA was in the nest box next to her working on an egg and she's the primary "get off, I'm laying there" culprit.

My sister's flight is landing any moment and I'm hoping to surprise the kids with the new babies.