Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Shadrach]

It can be... predators, unreliable hens, other chickens being jerks and what not. I have a broody, actually two and a couple half’s. My Bully girl has decided to seriously sit and I decided to let her. She started with 4 eggs and got up to seven but another broody (or b****y) hen has gotten in the habit of stealing her nest, pushing her off and clumsily breaking eggs, which coats the remaining eggs (and her own semi-broody bosom) in goo. If I lock my bully girl in the dog crate she panics and eats her eggs, if I don’t... the Brody meat girl forces her off. My plan is now to slip come chicks from an incubator under her as soon as they hatch. I am fairly certain that the eggs she’s sitting on are so coated in their sibling yolks that they are hopeless at this point.

My confidence in the hens was such that I threw the incubator they had here out.
If the production of any chicks at any cost is the aim then the incubator has it's place.

 

[Shadrach]

We cleaned Roostie’s eye more thoroughly today, and he is now officially partially blind. Looks like I will need to re-asses his housing situation for something more permanent, a little more sheltered, and with plenty of enrichment for his ladies. He is still doing a good job herding them all to shelter at aerial predator alarms, and seems to be doing ok. I’m feeling really disappointed with myself, and awful that he’s in this position. He has been such a diligent, well mannered, and sweet rooster. He never tries to steal other ladies, keeps his girls safe and to themselves. And he was doing so much better with his foot.

Have you looked at his eyeball and found damage?

 

[Shadrach]

Maybe you've already posted but I'm not reading ahead. Group 4 is from Little Women, Group 5 sounds like from a TV show from before my time, I can't think of the name...I liked Group 6 but had no idea about it! Same with the other Groups.

I didn't have a clue about most of them.

 

[featherhead007]

One more for Bob, my Beethoven-Hen

 

[featherhead007]

Concentrate on the job at hand man!

If I thought it was a job, I wouldn’t be doing it.

 

[Blazinga]

Am I the only one who knew 5 without a moment of hesitation?

Spoiler: Answer

The Penguins of madagascar by dreamworks

 

[Blazinga]

Today was my littles' first outdoor dustbath (leaf bath?). They're getting so patchy now.

 

[Kris5902]

Remember how I keep my mealworms under my coffee table? I have been found out!

 

[LozzyR]

The first four are easy. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy!

I once renewed my drivers licence on international towel day and had my official photo taken with a towel hanging over my shoulder

Group 1 was the only one I got.

 

[Kris5902]

Have you looked at his eyeball and found damage?

The last time we looked at it there appeared to be an eyeball, but a very, very bloody one. I am hoping that it wasn’t one of his own girls after the fact.. but today, once the swelling was significantly down and we were able to mostly open his eyelid, there appears to be nothing in the socket. It’s possible that when we first looked at it we saw just the blood from the initial injury. Knowing it was either going to heal on it’s own, or not, and that there was nothing to do except keep it clean and hope for the best we left him to recover on his own, with his tribe