I am glad you are so observant. Your tribe is lucky to have you. I'm glad I can make you feel better. I'm sure some coconut oil wouldn't hurt her. Just do it in the morning if you do treat it. Otherwise her comb will grease up her wing feathers when she tucks her head in to sleep.
Maybe she is hen pecking him? Also know as grooming. The roosters love it.For some reason, Hen-Rietta loves to peck at Jaffar’s neck under his waddles? I can’t stop her, and Jaffar doesn’t seem to mind it at all. (Must be a chicken thing I guess)
It's like an old wild west saloon show!To be fair, they are really flashing their petticoats not their bottoms!
Good thinking! I was going to clean her fluff this evening but temperatures are plummeting into the 20s so I thought better to leave it a few days until it warms up (or do it in the morning also).
Good grief those dinosaurs of mine eat a lot. It seems like the longer days has triggered them all to start laying (I wish they wouldn't all lay every day), but also to eat like pigs. I swear they are going through a bag of the commercial chicken food at twice the rate.
I need to start noting the date when I start a bag of feed so I can log it accurately, but I am pretty sure they are eating at close to twice the rate they were in the winter.
I did switch from pellets to crumbles so I wonder if that is it (though I did that because I thought they might eat crumbles more slowly!).
And it definitely isn't mice as it is in a sealed canister in the coop and no mice have been spotted on the coop cams for a long while now.
My girls too! They are eating us out of the house! And they are hitting the oyster shells hard too. They are loving the warmer, sunnier weather!Good grief those dinosaurs of mine eat a lot. It seems like the longer days has triggered them all to start laying (I wish they wouldn't all lay every day), but also to eat like pigs. I swear they are going through a bag of the commercial chicken food at twice the rate.
I need to start noting the date when I start a bag of feed so I can log it accurately, but I am pretty sure they are eating at close to twice the rate they were in the winter.
I did switch from pellets to crumbles so I wonder if that is it (though I did that because I thought they might eat crumbles more slowly!).
And it definitely isn't mice as it is in a sealed canister in the coop and no mice have been spotted on the coop cams for a long while now.
I used a blow-dryer when I bathed their bums recently, and they didn't mind it, most liked it once they felt it was warm air. I had gotten them pretty wet in this first bath, leg and even belly feathers too on Butters who had a bad case of stuck-on poo back there, and I didn't want them getting chilled. I used sweeping motions while fluffing with my fingers and I could monitor how warm it was (switched to cool for a bit, then back to warm, closer and further away, just like the salon!). For some reason everybody stood there on the towel relatively serenely once they felt the warm air.
Thanks. I will definitely consider that. Her fluff isn't too bad just not perfect for FBF portraits. So I was hoping to get away without a full on bath. I might be able to crumble it off with my fingers. Sorry, I know that sounds a bit icky.
