Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[micstrachan]

So let's talk about what you have to work with for integration.

• Does the flock free range at all? Is snow cover preventing it?
• Can I get some good photos showing the layout of the coop and run in detail?
• How much time do you have to available to spend directly observing the flock? How cold is it? (I did my last integration in February however it was a mild Feb in 2020.)
• What is your roosting situation? How crowded is the roost?

That will give me a start in understanding what we have to work with as we build a plan.

Myself, I would just integrate her and keep her at this point. I don't think any of the other rescuers care one bit about her and she is now attached to you. Even if she has issues with the flock, and she may not, she will have you to support her, much like Phyllis has me.

Agree!!!

It sounds like Bob will provide lots of help on integration. I have integrated a couple times myself, but never a single bird. Free range time helps tremendously, along with some sort of see-no-touch set-up. I use a prefab coop inside the run for this, but a wire crate works fine, too.

 

[micstrachan]

Desdemona actually suits her really well. I did think it might be too big a name for her @ first but apparently not. She is a very calm, sweet ladylike chicken. She is the only one of my new ones I can handle without major dramas.

I think most people have seen this but here she is:

Ladylike! And what say you about that, @Shadrach ???

 

[micstrachan]

Good morning. Here is Ester first inside, then outside this morning:

I was a little worried that I had not seen her drink. But then I remembered that I normally keep a large waterer in the sunroom just in csse some weird thing happens and they get locked in the coop and I can’t get to them to let them out... at least they’ll have access to water. I moved one back into the sunroom snd saw her drink from it. She was thirsty and I feel a little relieved since she drank. It’s not the ideal diet, but she ate cooked beef liver and a few wheat berries, as well. She’s still dropping feathers. She may become molt contest worthy!

 

[Anonymous Chicken]

I absolutely love this! That is a great use of the word "mug".

Thank you! The mug was a Christmas gift, and I had to share!

 

[BY Bob]

Thank you! The mug was a Christmas gift, and I had to share!

I love it

 

[Ribh]

Ladylike! Snd what say you about that, @Shadrach ???

Oh, he won't believe it. He'll come up with some cock an' bull about why it is not so.

 

[RoyalChick]

Good morning. Here is Ester first inside, then outside this morning:

I was a little worried that I had not seen her drink. But then I remembered that I normally keep a large waterer in the sunroom just in csse some weird thing happens and they get locked in the coop and I can’t get to them to let them out... at least they’ll have access to water. I moved one back into the sunroom snd saw her drink from it. She was thirsty and I feel a little relieved since she drank. It’s not the ideal diet, but she ate cooked beef liver and a few wheat berries, as well. She’s still dropping feathers. She may become molt contest worthy!

Oh poor thing. She is dropping feathers all over the place! Makes me cold just to look at her.

 

[RoyalChick]

I had to laugh. When I went out to say hello to the Princesses I found it was a 4 egg day (never had that before), but there seems to be a pecking order in who gets to lay where. Like kids with bunk beds, the older Princesses have claimed the top bunk!

 

[LozzyR]

Good morning. Here is Ester first inside, then outside this morning:

I was a little worried that I had not seen her drink. But then I remembered that I normally keep a large waterer in the sunroom just in csse some weird thing happens and they get locked in the coop and I can’t get to them to let them out... at least they’ll have access to water. I moved one back into the sunroom snd saw her drink from it. She was thirsty and I feel a little relieved since she drank. It’s not the ideal diet, but she ate cooked beef liver and a few wheat berries, as well. She’s still dropping feathers. She may become molt contest worthy!

Is she hunched because she’s cold? Was she still doing that in a warmer environment?

 

[Shadrach]

Chicken tax. Absence tax. Way behind on posts tax.
Sometimes it snows here.