Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Alex I am sorry and trust me I know what you are going through with your neighbors hens. Game birds are just on another level. Momma hen bit, flogged, clubbed and beat me on the daily when she was broody and rearing chicks. Every day I threatened to wring her neck and turn her into chicken and dumplings. I called her every name under the sun and then some. I stated on here more times then I care to count I would not wish that hen on my worst enemy. She was the spawn of satan so she would live forever, and it felt like she did.
The ole bat has been gone right at a year now.
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I've had a year of no surprise clutches. A year of not being flogged or clubbed with her stump foot. A year of being able to walk around a broody hen with her just hatched chick and not fear for my life. Call me crazy but I miss her.
View attachment 4093679View attachment 4093680She was the bane of my existence, but there will never be another like her. I hope.
Deep down though, something tells me I am asking for trouble keeping this little lady.
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Something tells me the tiny terror will one day become the tiny terrorist.

 

[knoturavggrl]

Twofer Tuesday- This pic was a piece of cake to get compared to when I had 13! However, the difficulty of twofer photos should be upped on Tuesday.

The SFH breeder let me know assuming the weather remained favorable she will be shipping the wee troublemakers on Monday!

I bet Pebble and Nyx will be glad to have some more friends. They are fairly close in age if not size so hopefully they will coalesce into a single flock as they grow up together, even if 2 are not chickens.

 

[Gypsi]

Amazon has a lot of splint styles but making your own asap is best till an order arrives. They didn't have splints/boots in the old days & we had to figure how to do it ourselves. But the new Amazon styles are amazing & save a lot of fiddling time/stress on the bird

First cardboard splint was a fail but when I made him a cardboard boot splint that went up above the joint he got mad at me and took off so I guess that one worked pretty well

 

[featherhead007]

Aggressive game bird hen.
She thinks that the whole house is her personal brooder. She is very temperamental and flogs me every chance she gets.
If it wasn’t for the babies, would introduce her to my shotgun (it has a temperamental trigger too)

 

[Ponypoor]

so I found some tongue depressors, but cardboard would be better? I have that. Tackling it in the morning, too tired tonight. He's eating and drinking well but can't put weight on leg yet. He tries and it gives way under him.

Sorry to hear this.

Have you posted in the Emergency section also? Our feathered friends are bound to make us worry!

 

[BY Bob]

Brrrr! Cold Tuesday

Love seeing your chooks.

 

[BY Bob]

Alex I am sorry and trust me I know what you are going through with your neighbors hens. Game birds are just on another level. Momma hen bit, flogged, clubbed and beat me on the daily when she was broody and rearing chicks. Every day I threatened to wring her neck and turn her into chicken and dumplings. I called her every name under the sun and then some. I stated on here more times then I care to count I would not wish that hen on my worst enemy. She was the spawn of satan so she would live forever, and it felt like she did.
The ole bat has been gone right at a year now.
View attachment 4093678
I've had a year of no surprise clutches. A year of not being flogged or clubbed with her stump foot. A year of being able to walk around a broody hen with her just hatched chick and not fear for my life. Call me crazy but I miss her.
View attachment 4093679View attachment 4093680She was the bane of my existence, but there will never be another like her. I hope.
Deep down though, something tells me I am asking for trouble keeping this little lady.
View attachment 4093682View attachment 4093683
Something tells me the tiny terror will one day become the tiny terrorist.

It's never easy when we remember them.

 

[featherhead007]

She may not look tough, but looks can be deceiving

 

[featherhead007]

Scrambled egg breakfast with ham and cheese

 

[Gypsi]

Sorry to hear this.

Have you posted in the Emergency section also? Our feathered friends are bound to make us worry!

It's not a super emergency, he's eating and drinking well and I made him a cardboard boot yesterday that worked so well he took off running. I think he will be ok. I followed a search looking for diy splint and it led me here. sorry if I'm off topic