Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

Yep! We were raised very differently, hubby had proximity to friends, I had a farm life haha. We did discuss great grampas rabbits being turned into meat, and the guts being in the coop for the chickens to eat. We didn't let her see it though, it was pretty gruesome!

Kids can be massively affected seeing graphic animal slaughters. I saw slaughter day on the farm at 6-yrs-old and to this day at 80-yrs-old I can't shake the image!

 

[Ponypoor]

Yesterday it was 100 while trying to rain......

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Crazy! That’s just miserable for everybody- humid, hot, no relief when it’s like that.

 

[Ponypoor]

I candled yesterday and will again on Sunday. I figure if any survived they'll be clearly developing by then. The cochin eggs are so dark it's hard to see inside!

I am so thankful that I put 8 eggs under my broodies, but at the same time they are big enough they could have had one more each...I shouldn't think like that.

Here is one of the polish eggs, this one is under Morinth. The little shrimpy baby in there was a bit wiggly!
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What day is that? Looks like day 5. By then you should definitely see something- spidery veins for sure.

Re: dark eggs, black of night or closet and very bright flashlight.

 

[Ponypoor]

I love the little running and flapping thing they do!

They had a collision and bounced off each other later, it was so darn hilarious! Like little balls - boing!

 

[Ponypoor]

Good evening even though it's almost morning.
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Hi grandma - you are looking lovely

 

[Ponypoor]

Shock of my life.
I checked the cameras before going to bed (I am in a Timezone that is 5 hour ahead of my Princesses) and I was missing a chicken. Four on the roost and Tassels in her cage (busy hatching mini-dog crates).
Where was Sylvie.
My first thought is she went back to being broody before even restarting to lay eggs, but the cameras looking at the way in to the nest boxes did not show her. So then I worried she had died in the heat. But I saw her on camera time stamped 7pm and she looked pretty energetic.
Nothing I could do. Middle of the night in the US. Tried to distract myself here with various things.
And now, 20 minutes before dawn, there she is tucking in to a hearty breakfast.
Mystery.
I wonder where she spent the night!
My blood pressure is slowly returning to normal.

Sylvie the missing chicken.
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Gosh I know that feeling, couple times I almost woke mum to go check them for me.

Wonder if she is up in the rafters- is she a flier like Eli was??

 

[Ponypoor]

Busy day here. Water has been shut off and I'm going to see 8f I can get food from somewhere. At least my animals have been fed and watered

Why? What’s wrong?

 

[Ponypoor]

That may be true - but I would candle them now...and then keep them in the incubator for a couple of days and candle again and see if there is change in development. I wouldn't automatically assume they have passed.....and, IF they live, such a short period in their incubation being so hot they might not have developmental issues. Probably you have had other comments - as, again, I am a number of pages behind - but please don't automatically assume the worst and chuck everything - get proof of passing first.

 

[Ponypoor]

Look at song birds. The vast variety of colors they have. Why should chickens be less than them?

But chickens are one separate species! Oriels are just one species - one doesn’t see different colours in them.

It’s simply amazing!

 

[featherhead007]

Wow! I figured out the secret to the universe.
Chickens like their wattles rubbed’