Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Awww I love when they just decide ok that’s enough let go, and they scoot inside

It's like they could not find anything better, so back to the coop.

 

[bgmathteach]

Interesting idea. Sort of taking a bet that Tassels is less contaminated than everyone else.
Hmmm.

How much do they shed???? A 'clean environment' would be important... i.e. moving her/them...but I have no idea how much Tassels herself would shed/be a risk factor. Do you know???

 

[BY Bob]

They are so cute head poofs just bobbing all around. Glad they found their way back in.

Mine are getting inside now as well, it is such a relief when they get to that point isn’t it?

It feels really good that they found their way back in on their own. A couple of more nights and I'll feel good. I have seen them backslide before.

 

[BY Bob]

I wonder what they are saying? it’s surely a conversation of some sort.

It surely is. They talk to each other all the time. Especially on the roost before they go to sleep.

 

[bgmathteach]

Wish I knew why some birds don't want to go to bed. Last night DH said he'd close the coop when he gets home at 8:00 so I never did the lockup. When DH got home & walked into the yard from the back door little Keiko looked up at him from the porch while roosting on our giant push broom. The silly little clown could've been a snack for one of our city possums or raccoon! We're not waiting for lockup now that we've got TWO Silkies that hesitate to go in the coop to roost ~ Ginny & now Keiko. I wonder if they're related to @RebeccaBoyd 's Poppet?

Have you tried @BY Bob 's trick of putting a small light in teh coop so they go to the light??? A small solar light might work!

 

[BY Bob]

Little Eve has gotten so big! How old is she now?

Eve turned 6 years old yesterday.

Maybe give her a bath to wash dirt and dust off her, dry fluff and put her in a clean brooder crate in an area away from the others, wait for a few days to acclimate, then introduce some 6 day old chickies.

One needs to be careful doing something like this. One way of breaking a broody is to dunk them in water. Just washing Tassels might break her.

 

[BY Bob]

Have you tried @BY Bob 's trick of putting a small light in teh coop so they go to the light??? A small solar light might work!

I was getting ready to add a light tonight but they figured it out.

 

[featherhead007]

Tonight’s sleeping arrangements are:
17 in the coop and 2 outside the coop but on the same perch as the others. Joists extend 2 feet past the coop wall. Chicken wire separates them from each other.
(Two game hens are outside the coop, but safe enough)

 

[RoyalChick]

It's like they could not find anything better, so back to the coop.

Well then it is a reasonable bet that what they were saying involved complaining about the services provided by @BY Bob.
‘You just can’t get good help these days’

 

[RoyalChick]

Eve turned 6 years old yesterday.

One needs to be careful doing something like this. One way of breaking a broody is to dunk them in water. Just washing Tassels might break her.

Ha! I wish. This is the hen that will sit on ice bricks in the hope of hatching little ice cubes. Don’t think a bath will put her off.
That said, nor do I think a bath will wash away Marek’s disease viruses.