Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

Awesome. I can't wait to meet her!

I thought you were married. Joke

 

[featherhead007]

I thought you were married. Joke

He’s very married, to a lovely lady. (Who loves Polish hens) by the way.

 

[featherhead007]

Here we go again with Jaffar. I heard him crowing all morning, since 04:00 this morning. Now he’s gurgling in his throat again??? I took him inside to rest up. If he’s not well, he doesn’t need to be out chasing ladies all over. (Rest does a body good) so I just don’t know. Yes I called the vet back again about this obvious chronic gurgle thing) I’m waiting on a return call.

 

[Blazinga]

I'm sorry to read this Ribh.
Late advice.
Get Amprolium, Permethrin, Chlorhexedine, a vitamin and mineral booster.
I think I would also look for another beeder Ribh. Losing the Vorwerks so quickly which are noted for being reasonably hardy, plus the chick problems you've had makes me think that your breeder doesn't know what he/she is doing.
My view with chicks is get them outside as quickly as possible. Outside is where they are going to live and being outside early helps them build up some tolerance to the local pathogens.
It was a problem here when I arrived. They kept the chicks inside until they were fully feathered. When they let them out a lot died.
I think while your run and coops are great that you have too many chickens for the available space. Just an observation. The 10 square metres rule one often reads is imo about half of what the minimum should be.
Ideally, all prospective chicken keepers should equip themselves with the basic medications before they get chickens. I realise this rarely happens but when a chicken falls ill, you need the stuff there and then, not when amazon or whatever manage to deliver it.

I haven't gotten my birds yet. Beyond what you mentioned what else do you recommend I get for first aid?

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Well, they came for 2 and left with 4. Maddy's grandpa and his Daughter in law who lives with them came to pick out 2 of Karen's group. She met Drumstick and Bumblebee who were their usual love bug selves and then spent 30 minutes sitting in the pen with the babies. She was looking for the friendliest pullet and cockerel. They all 4 turned on their charm and were hopping all over her, Karen even ended up on her head. He finally asked had she made her mind up and she's like yup, all of them. He also tried the entire time after meeting Drummie again to talk me out of him. If my dad had been home and heard him offer the 75 just for Drummie alone he would have shot me for turning it down. Thankfully he was at work and will never know lol. It didn't help matters that Drummie walked right up to him and let him pick him up and then just melted in his arms when he began scratching his chest. But he knows that with time and attention he can have his own 2 Drumsticks soon.

 

[Shadrach]

I haven't gotten my birds yet. Beyond what you mentioned what else do you recommend I get for first aid?

This is what I keep as essential. I'm about to add a couple of items that I find I use a lot.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/the-chicken-keepers-health-armoury.75220/

 

[BY Bob]

The day has come

I dread these days as I wish she would just stop. She is more valuable to me than anything she might lay. After 5 days of continuous complaining, Lilly is laying an egg as I write this. She started in the prime nest box.

She spent quite a bit of time trying to fix the mess everyone else had made of that nest box.

She decided in the end that it could not be fixed and is in the center box now.

I'm so nervous. I need this to go well.

 

[Marie2020]

The most nervous gets the goodies after she made the others look for something that wasn't there. Clever girl

He’s very married, to a lovely lady. (Who loves Polish hens) by the way.

I was making a joke @featherhead007 . A play on words.

 

[Scrambles83]

I did with this one (on the left).....

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Who turned out to be this........
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And then this one...........
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Who wound up being this..........
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So I am batting 0.500. That's good, right?

Good enough for me
Just would have thought at 20 weeks I’d be past it

 

[Shadrach]

They look like happy birds! At the second house, are all the beaks trimmed or just some of them? I was wondering if some could be rescues?

Just some. Yes he has quite a few rescues and market birds.
The man who keeps the chickens in the first set of pictures used to keep ex batts. Now he takes a few chickens that people are trying to rehome.