Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

Are you in the throws of heatwaves? The heat/humidity is confusing our Silkies ~ do they lay an egg? or go broody? or act normal? Each day a surprise who's in the nest box & what each one decides to do for the day!
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Actually no. Now that storm Debby has gone it is cooler and lower humidity.
Promises to be a nice week weather-wise.

 

[notabitail]

On the packaging it says it is an SSD. I haven't taken it out of the packaging yet.

That should be good then. It'll probably be faster.

Why on earth do I keep laughing at messages I mean to "heart" and then proceeded to click "angry" instead of "informative" on this one?

 

[notabitail]

Tax for "Fascinating Tech Talk" according to @RoyalChick :

 

[featherhead007]

Tax for "Fascinating Tech Talk" according to @RoyalChick :
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Do you have a full body picture of this one?

 

[notabitail]

Do you have a full body picture of this one?

I have one. My little brother took that picture. He took tons of junk photos on my phone. Here's the best one I have. She is in a really bad and painful molt right now thanks to having her back feather ripped off by Cockerel.

 

[Lilion]

It’s fine if you didn’t get it finished today. I don’t want you to work on it today because it’s my birthday and I have done very little work at all, and it’s hot

LOL. If it were my birthday, I wouldn't work on it either. It was actually beautiful here. Maybe 82°. Tonight rain is supposed to start and continue most of the week...and get hotter.

 

[featherhead007]

I showed you these earlier today but I’m showing them again because I like what my pastor gave me for my birthday:

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Goodbye my friend.

Yesterday I found out Aurora had a really bad prolapse. I tried to shove it back in but she had pooped in her body cavity. There is about an inch of guts outside her cloaca. She does not seem to be lethargic but since she pooped inside I am sure it will get infected. Also it may happen again. I got her inside the barn because the wasps were tormenting her. Today she will be put down because I don't have the heart to let her go on suffering, because, even though I put honey on her vent to keep it from drying out, she went and scratched around in the wood shavings and got wood shavings all over her guts.
Goodbye Aurora, my only Easter Egger.

Oh my gosh, that is so sad. My heart goes out to you and sending hugs.

 

[Marie2020]

@CCsGarden and @notabitail I'm very sorry for In Albis. I will miss all her tricks to get in to grab some food. Are all your other chooks ok, no one showing similar symptoms?

@LhickenChicken I'm sorry about Aurora as well. It's hard when the only thing you can do is give them a quicker painless ending.


I don't have much useful advice because I was in the same situation with Léa and I gave up breaking her this way. I do use the crate for a few hours in the morning and two hours before roosting , but the rest of the day I just lock them out of the coop.
If it helps I did notice that she sort of got used to it after a few days.

On crated broodies, I have a mystery myself that needs at least Sherlock Aurora to look into. I have a new broody, Lulu, who like Calypso is extremely aggressive. I put her in the crate in the evening, because she aims for the same nest as Merle, who is the devil itself, and she tries to poke Lulu's eyes out.
Anyway yesterday I left her in this crate locked up. An hour and a half later I heard a big commotion. I ran to the coop. Lulu was on top of the crate. Water and food were spilled. But the crate was still locked.
I don't understand how she got out.
The top bars, not shown on the picture, are slightly wider, three inches square. But even if she could possibly have forced squeezed her way through how would she get to the top ?
Very strange.
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Maybe she is Houdini reincarnated

 

[Marie2020]

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