Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Kris5902]

@featherhead007 maybe you can think of a variation on the idea of her growing up fat instead?
Plump Bird
Miss Plumpkins
Pumpkin
Fluff Ball, Fluffy
Her Royal Roundness

I quite like Her Royal Roundness!

 

[Kris5902]

Very worrying are eye injuries. I hope it's nothing too serious.

So far as I can tell the eye is still there, and he seems to have at least partial vision in it. I am kicking myself for not taking better care of him. I am giving him some meloxicam Pain relief which seems to be helping, and I’m going to start him on another course of antibiotics before I try to clear up his foot further. If it comes to it, I can take him in with my meat birds in May. The stunner at the Abattoir there is very good, compassionate, and kind.

How is his foot? Did you ever do surgery on it?

I was letting him free range with the rest and moving his tractor to the far end of the area where our trailer is, planning on setting him up a little yard in the corner, and once I had him in an area I can fence in decently, addressing the foot situation more. I was thinking it would be near the end of this week.

I don’t like to move the “Home” too far, too fast, as it’s confusing for them. Today after checking him out, feeding him and his girls first, separately, DH and I dragged the tractor fully to its destination and set up the fencing for him. All before letting the other free range birds out. So of course, three of his girls spent the day trying to get out of the fence and back “home” to lay their egg (even after being repeatedly shown their housing’s new placement. eventually ZipTie remembered how she can defeat the fence and flew up and perched on it. She couldn’t get it to sag quite enough to free her cohorts Tailess and Chubby though.

As for his foot, it’s still quite swollen, a bumble appeared on top, but no seepage or pus. I’ve still been soaking and the swollen portion seems softer and more liquid. The weather is finally cooperating and now he’s in an area I can fairly confine, the only real hold up is the vision situation now.

 

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Butters this morning
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Butters is beautiful! I love her coloring

Happy Easter from the Ladies

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I love the Easter photos of the ladies! I also love that your magnolia tree is in bloom! So pretty!

Alright...gonna come clean here. I just joined BYC today, after spending countless hours over several weeks reading Fluffy Butt Acres.
No, I cannot claim to have read all 3000+ pages (but definitely several hundreds ), and I'm so grateful to have this message board as a resource.
So, thank you Bob and everyone!

Same here! I joined a few weeks ago and fell in love with this thread! I think I read about 680 pages, then I ended up skipping ahead

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

@featherhead007 maybe you can think of a variation on the idea of her growing up fat instead?
Plump Bird
Miss Plumpkins
Pumpkin
Fluff Ball, Fluffy
Her Royal Roundness

These are all fun names Chicory but I think @featherhead007 nailed it.
"Chub" gets my vote. (If he wants to be more formal he could use "Miss Chub" )

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Alright...gonna come clean here. I just joined BYC today, after spending countless hours over several weeks reading Fluffy Butt Acres.
No, I cannot claim to have read all 3000+ pages (but definitely several hundreds ), and I'm so grateful to have this message board as a resource.
So, thank you Bob and everyone!

G'day and welcome @Lady Red .

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

So far as I can tell the eye is still there, and he seems to have at least partial vision in it. I am kicking myself for not taking better care of him. I am giving him some meloxicam Pain relief which seems to be helping, and I’m going to start him on another course of antibiotics before I try to clear up his foot further. If it comes to it, I can take him in with my meat birds in May. The stunner at the Abattoir there is very good, compassionate, and kind.

I was letting him free range with the rest and moving his tractor to the far end of the area where our trailer is, planning on setting him up a little yard in the corner, and once I had him in an area I can fence in decently, addressing the foot situation more. I was thinking it would be near the end of this week.

I don’t like to move the “Home” too far, too fast, as it’s confusing for them. Today after checking him out, feeding him and his girls first, separately, DH and I dragged the tractor fully to its destination and set up the fencing for him. All before letting the other free range birds out. So of course, three of his girls spent the day trying to get out of the fence and back “home” to lay their egg (even after being repeatedly shown their housing’s new placement. eventually ZipTie remembered how she can defeat the fence and flew up and perched on it. She couldn’t get it to sag quite enough to free her cohorts Tailess and Chubby though.

As for his foot, it’s still quite swollen, a bumble appeared on top, but no seepage or pus. I’ve still been soaking and the swollen portion seems softer and more liquid. The weather is finally cooperating and now he’s in an area I can fairly confine, the only real hold up is the vision situation now.

I like your plans Kris. I hope his foot "pops" for you and drains well and that his eye clears up.

Hopefully the girls will settle in to their new home position soon.

 

[Ribh]

Could go Wagnerian: Brunnhilde makes for a good chicken name. Then there is Sieglinde and Isolde. There must be another one but I can’t remember.

No. No. Nope. Cannot do. I used to called youngest Brunhilda. She'd be beyond mortified if I now called a chicken after her!

 

[BY Bob]

Butters is beautiful! I love her coloring


I love the Easter photos of the ladies! I also love that your magnolia tree is in bloom! So pretty!


Same here! I joined a few weeks ago and fell in love with this thread! I think I read about 680 pages, then I ended up skipping ahead

And we are so glad you joined us!

 

[featherhead007]

Are we still practicing “Mugshot Monday “??

 

[BY Bob]

Are we still practicing “Mugshot Monday “??
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Practicing?! You would think by now we have it sorted! Yes we are!