Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Happy Caturday!!!
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How adorable.

 

[BY Bob]

There is an online portal to upload your test results. They only accept results from trusted sources. Visitors also have to fill out a health questionaire online. Once you’ve done both and test results are verified, they send you a QR code. Upon arrival, you must flash your QR code to get to the next step, which is where a live person scans your QR code and compares the data against your ID when releasing you. We also had to enter our accommodations into the database amd our cab driver from the airport (who had the front row sealed off with a sheet of plastic) had us fill out a little form, I assume for contact tracing). Everyone is masked up and (mostly) distancing. I’ve been back in the office since June and know the drill. The husband of a colleague died from COVID-19 early in in the pandemic and we are hyper aware.

Chen Tax
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Trusted sources would be any medical facility or only those they designate? Is there a list you need to check before getting tested? I find this fascinating.

Chicken tax

 

[RoyalChick]

Makes me want to come and visit. Just gorgeous. I do love winter even if the ladies don't.

You would be most welcome but I have to say 8 degrees is really miserably cold, and it hasn't even been sunny. Even the deer didn't come out of the woods for two days. Only me and my buckets of water was stupid enough to come out.
I am glad I got the car undercover - it would have been stuck for days. Snowing again tomorrow apparently.

 

[drstratton]

Good afternoon everyone...I am 50 pages behind and I don't know if I can ever catch up at this rate...any chance of a recap! I hope everyone and your lovely pets are doing well! I've been doing well, just busy with projects. So far the hawk hasn't been able to kill anymore of my flock, they have learned to run into their enclosed pen when he makes his presence known! Anyway, have a great day everyone!

 

[LozzyR]

Good afternoon everyone...I am 50 pages behind and I don't know if I can ever catch up at this rate...any chance of a recap! I hope everyone and your lovely pets are doing well! I've been doing well, just busy with projects. So far the hawk hasn't been able to kill anymore of my flock, they have learned to run into their enclosed pen when he makes his presence known! Anyway, have a great day everyone!

I’m over 200 pages behind on Ribh’s thread, bookmarks are great! The most current one is at the top.

 

[drstratton]

I’m over 200 pages behind on Ribh’s thread, bookmarks are great! The most current one is at the top.

I've done that too...it really works fantastic!

 

[BY Bob]

Yes, I worry about the the care she will get with a kid looking to maximize egg production. Don't know if he'll care about each chicken, have any money to help care for them (her, really), and if the guidance he's getting is the old school of "just let them die" or "kill 'em when they stop laying" type.

However, my worry about that is balancing with knowing that Queenie will really benefit from being back with at least some of the flock individuals that she knew. Don't chickens really know each individual, and remember them? She was very anxious to be with the Buckeye chicken strangers as soon as she saw them, so maybe it has to do with the prime directive of being with a flock to survive.

Lil' Queenie's flock was split up apparently by two separate groups of people that came and nabbed them all except for Queenie. I don't know which group the rooster is with, I will hopefully find out. Maybe the kid is hoping to raise chicks and has the rooster. Or maybe they came second and the rooster had been taken.

The lady I spoke with said she was going to give them my number last night. They have not called me this morning yet, which is not a good sign, maybe.

On the other hand I am getting attached to her, but on the third hand I am concerned about how it would go over with the Buckeyes to integrate her, seeing how Butters totally treated her like an enemy. As Shad says, I have a stable flock right now so why disrupt that?

Lil' Queenie ate out of my hand today, and is pretty calm and astoundingly docile at times, more than the Buckeyes, which is a nice thing to experience. Yesterday, once I got her picked up (nervous about that) and then standing on the bathroom counter in good sunlight to look her over, she just stood there, letting me ruffle through all of her feathers, all over her, back and front, up and down, burrowing into the enormous pillow fluff of her legs, and she was totally relaxed letting me lift her wings to look under there too. Wow that's a new experience! I did find some dry hard green-black poo cemented to some side back feathers I cut off as minimally as possible. She even started preening herself during this! It was nice.

That is the beauty of most Orpingtons. They tend to be very tolerant of humans and being handled.

Frankly she will want to flock up with your Buckeyes. Chickens are not solitary animals. While it may be difficult she very well could join your flock with proper integration. It will be easier for her with a friend but not impossible for her to join in. If Phyllis can survive in my group of lunatics, Queenie could well survive in yours.

Still I recommend getting her a friend if you can. I have integrated solo hens sucdssfully before but things are easier with pairs.

 

[LozzyR]

Just ordered. It will be here tomorrow. I'm at least going to be able to take care of my own.

I hope it’s decent; behaviour and stress/welfare are what caught my eye.

 

[featherhead007]

That is the beauty of most Orpingtons. They tend to be very tolerant of humans and being handled.

Frankly she will want to flock up with your Buckeyes. Chickens are not solitary animals. While it may be difficult she very well could join your flock with proper integration. It will be easier for her with a friend but not impossible for her to join in. If Phyllis can survive in my group of lunatics, Queenie could well survive in yours.

Still I recommend getting her a friend if you can. I have integrated solo hens sucdssfully before but things are easier with pairs.

Wow Bob. That is exactly what Phyllis told BLU on "BeakBook" (Said group of lunatics)
Sorry I look at their mail, but a good "Chicken Daddy" is always careful.

 

[BY Bob]

Wow Bob. That is exactly what Phyllis told BLU on "BeakBook" (Said group of lunatics)
Sorry I look at their mail, but a good "Chicken Daddy" is always careful.

I am not surprised that Phyllis and I are of like mind. I feel like I am running an asylum here.

You are good to keep track of Blu's correspondence. You just never know.