Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[LozzyR]

Nest box basin and entranceView attachment 2560251View attachment 2560252

I love watching things get built!

 

[Cynthia12]

Calling experienced chickeneers:

the 2nd of my 4 wk old Wyandotte chicks is lethargic & not really eating or drinking. I have started treating her for cocci & syringed some egg yolk into her this morning. Only got 2~3 ml into her but I did get some electrolyted water into her as well. Anyone with ideas as to what might be going on & what I should be doing? Bedding is changed every day & kept dry. Water kept clean. I was using medicated feed but will change that if I start treating everyone for cocci.

Diarrhea? I swear, the medicated feed make more of my chicks ill than not..if I keep them on it too long. I don't keep mine on it longer than a week. Most get loose stools and don't act well if I keep them on it longer. That's me.

 

[Scrambles83]

So today was a good day for all the chicks. The older ones spent about 5 hours outside playing. When I couldn't be right there to supervise them and keep them from getting in trouble they spent time in the dog house. They are full of themselves, and any chance they got when they spotted the big chickens they wanted to charge them. The little ones got to spend about a hour outside for the first time. No hesitation at all when I let them out of the box I packed them outside in. There was things to see and they had chicken stuff to do, who needs to stay in the box being scared. From now on after about 11 each morning when it warms up the big kids get to go outside for a few hours. And the little ones will get to spend at least a hour out as well. Its time to learn to be chickens.
I love this video where they discovered the leaf.
https://www.facebook.com/100003915274138/videos/pcb.2057716887702134/2057709461036210
https://www.facebook.com/100003915274138/videos/pcb.2057716887702134/2057711337702689
They found some bugs, I think they get a A+ in the pest control class.
https://www.facebook.com/100003915274138/videos/pcb.2057716887702134/2057713197702503

Love the bug hunt!!!
Good job chicks

 

[LozzyR]

So today was a good day for all the chicks. The older ones spent about 5 hours outside playing. When I couldn't be right there to supervise them and keep them from getting in trouble they spent time in the dog house. They are full of themselves, and any chance they got when they spotted the big chickens they wanted to charge them. The little ones got to spend about a hour outside for the first time. No hesitation at all when I let them out of the box I packed them outside in. There was things to see and they had chicken stuff to do, who needs to stay in the box being scared. From now on after about 11 each morning when it warms up the big kids get to go outside for a few hours. And the little ones will get to spend at least a hour out as well. Its time to learn to be chickens.
I love this video where they discovered the leaf.
https://www.facebook.com/100003915274138/videos/pcb.2057716887702134/2057709461036210
https://www.facebook.com/100003915274138/videos/pcb.2057716887702134/2057711337702689
They found some bugs, I think they get a A+ in the pest control class.
https://www.facebook.com/100003915274138/videos/pcb.2057716887702134/2057713197702503

So adorable!

 

[Cynthia12]

So today was a good day for all the chicks. The older ones spent about 5 hours outside playing. When I couldn't be right there to supervise them and keep them from getting in trouble they spent time in the dog house. They are full of themselves, and any chance they got when they spotted the big chickens they wanted to charge them. The little ones got to spend about a hour outside for the first time. No hesitation at all when I let them out of the box I packed them outside in. There was things to see and they had chicken stuff to do, who needs to stay in the box being scared. From now on after about 11 each morning when it warms up the big kids get to go outside for a few hours. And the little ones will get to spend at least a hour out as well. Its time to learn to be chickens.
I love this video where they discovered the leaf.
https://www.facebook.com/100003915274138/videos/pcb.2057716887702134/2057709461036210
https://www.facebook.com/100003915274138/videos/pcb.2057716887702134/2057711337702689
They found some bugs, I think they get a A+ in the pest control class.
https://www.facebook.com/100003915274138/videos/pcb.2057716887702134/2057713197702503

Am I seeing a lot of cockerels there? Are they after bugs in that last one? .

 

[Cynthia12]

Tiny egg..from big chicken. Not mine.

 

[Scrambles83]

Tiny egg..from big chicken. Not mine. View attachment 2560476

That’s like a sparrow egg!!!

When I was a pastry chef where the boss bulk ordered eggs, I got ones that size (soft shelled) INSIDE other eggs.
Those poor factory chickens....

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Am I seeing a lot of cockerels there? Are they after bugs in that last one? .

I think you are. When I finally got this group out in natural light, I suspect at least 3 of the 6 are boys, if not possibly 4. And in the older group, I knew there was 1 for sure male and thought 3 were girls. Wrong, 2 are boys, combs starting to pink up on a second one and when the sunlight hit, the 2 boys already have their copper hackle markings coming in. So out of 10 chicks hatched, its for sure looking like a even split but I wont be surprised now if its not 6 boys and 4 girls. After a brief visit last summer it seems the pullet fairy has left me and my old friend, or enemy if you want to call it that the Cockerel fairy is back. And with a vengeance I may add.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Oh and yes, in the last video they are after bugs. It was warm enough today to bring out some tiny flies and they were having a feast.

 

[fuentemoon]

Someone in my local fb group posted a photo of an egg inside an egg the other day, full shell and everything! It was smaller, but not that small! I the the outside egg may have been found broken, but I don't remember now.