Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[LaFemmeKatia]

Two-fer Tuesday? Ok I’m game!
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Aw... now I want some peep peeps again!

 

[featherhead007]

Aw... now I want some peep peeps again!

Be careful dear, "Peeps" are very addictive. Once you start, you can't un-start!

 

[featherhead007]

I may have said it by before, but I don’t think it’s fair, that chickens have wings but don’t usually fly. Whereas I have wings and do fly occasionally. Interesting point of Yin & Yang I guess.
chick tax:
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Coco, on the left. Shanny, on the right.

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

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Sansa Update

Since I believe that I may be the cause of Sansa's anxiety, I have been trying to think of how I can examine the situation better without effecting it with my presence. The solution came to me this morning, the cameras. I observed Sansa for over an hour this morning via the cameras and the hen I was watching seemed to behave as she should and normally does. She was eating, scratching, hanging out with Lilly. She just really seemed normal.

Then the sun came out and I released everyone from the complex. As you saw in an earlier post, everyone came to the deck except Sansa. She would not come. So I took her over her own bowl of chopped up cheese omelet and fried potatoes. She ate them. After that initial visit, everyone went back to the coop to hang out with her.

Later in the afternoon I look out the door and I see Sansa standing alone in the 1 yard square grass patch looking at the deck. That is when I realized everyone except her and Sydney are on the deck. Well everyone that braved the killer pool cover deserve snacks and so I provide them. In this case some leftover Taco meat and walnuts. Sydney must have been laying an egg and before you know it a Barred Rock hen is sailing over the pool. Flying for all she is worth. Well she did not quite make it but the pool is solid ice. She hit, skidded, and would up on the deck like she planned it that way.

Feeling bad for Sansa, I grabbed a couple of walnuts and went over to the coop to share them with her. She is very much anxious being around me but she did take one from my hand. I went to put the rest on the pavers and we wound up switching positions with her now between me and the deck. I went to go back and in order to stay away from me, she went first. So Sansa wound up on the deck with everyone else this afternoon. I learned that apparently I am scarier than the pool cover.

As I said, they enjoyed their day playing on the deck, grooming under the table, eating exotic foods from foreign countries (taco meat), and in general, enjoying a day out. Sansa seemed to enjoy it as much as everyone else, especially the Killer Corn!

I did not see everyone else leave and go back to the coop so I have no idea how long Sansa was left behind but I came out and found her alone on the little fence. I could tell right away she was measuring for flight and before I could even get my phone out of my pocket, she was airborne. Over the pool she sailed. Sadly, just like Sydney, she did not make it. About a foot short of the other side she hit the ice, slid, and was up on solid ground like she planned it. Into the complex she went.

Everyone roosted as usual and I sit here wondering what to do next. Aside from her new found fears of me and the pool cover, she seemed fairly normal today. What to do?

I think what you are doing is fine. I think the problem will resolve itself, and in the meanwhile, your clever birds are perfecting their hockey stop!

 

[LozzyR]

I've been working lately near to the Coop when a hen has been in there. Like shoveling snow, or today replacing the batteries on the automatic door. They hear me nearby and I hear a trilly kind of clucking coming from in there. It increases when I'm closer. Sometimes I hear that when I'm in the run with the others, it is loud enough. I don't know if she's talking to me, the other hens, or what she's saying. It is a distinctive sound though.

Yes, and there have been two hens in there at least twice that I know of. It is a long 34"? x 12"? hall-shaped box made by a divider with a sliding door opening between it and the roosting area. The coop is an Omlet Cube. I can't add another nestbox to it exactly, except outside of the coop, like I could hang it from the protective welded wire run, and make a ramp to it. But I'm not sure they would use it. I might try.

I made an external nesting box which Charlie used for a while, but now nobody’s touching it.

 

[drstratton]

SHRA!

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This is such a great picture MJ!

I have to ask...what does SHRA stand for...I've seen it used before, but I have no clue

 

[RoyalChick]

This is such a great picture MJ!

I have to ask...what does SHRA stand for...I've seen it used before, but I have no clue

Should have read ahead.
Whenever you ask or answer a question that is already answered further on in the thread.
In theory you need to pay a tax by posting a picture of two chickens.

 

[drstratton]

Should have read ahead.
Whenever you ask or answer a question that is already answered further on in the thread.
In theory you need to pay a tax by posting a picture of two chickens.

Thank you RC...I should have known this as I'm totally guilty in this regard...

 

[RoyalChick]

Thank you RC...I should have know this as I'm totally guilty in this regard...

We all are and so we get to share more chicken pictures!

 

[featherhead007]

Even oceanic chickens? Are they tax deductible ?