Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Lady Red]

I'm so behind today. Too much work while feeling under the weather.

Mugshot....Nae nae...a sweet chonky (as kiddo would say) girl.

 

[RoyalChick]

A Treat from the Vault

This video is from 2016. I found this in an old email today as I cleaned out my email box. I had no idea I even took this. It is the Big 3, Daisy, the greatest hen ever, Patsy, and Lilly dustbathing in the original run extension with the prefab coop in the background. There is no sound and it is 4 min long but watch for a while. They were such a great tribe.

What a treat that was!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

A Treat from the Vault

This video is from 2016. I found this in an old email today as I cleaned out my email box. I had no idea I even took this. It is the Big 3, Daisy, the greatest hen ever, Patsy, and Lilly dustbathing in the original run extension with the prefab coop in the background. There is no sound and it is 4 min long but watch for a while. They were such a great tribe.

This is really great! Thank you. If I could make this a screen-saver loop I would! I just played it through several times while I practiced my bass. I never tire of watching chickens dustbathe.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Butter is so beautiful!

I'll pass on the compliment! In case you are thinking the pale golden hen is Butters, though, actually Butters is the mahogany Buckeye and Queenie is the yellow Buff Orpington. Butters the Buckeye got her name because as a chick she WAS a pale yellow, with with a plain yellow head with no stripe. But they are both very beautiful!

 

[Blazinga]

Baby Muff mug from Cinnabar

 

[Cynthia12]

I couldn't be more sad. Found out why I've had stomach problems. It's been bad. I have C. diff. Yes, they are finding that animals .. birds...can transmit it. I have a pretty sad immune system. No antibiotics to have caused it. I did this last year. Same time. We tried to figure out what I did the same that caused me to be sick. I hatched! Had this last year but got over it without the help with meds. This year I have to take something and cross fingers it helps. Placing ..all..of my chickens. I don't want to hurt like this again!

 

[BY Bob]

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You posted that here on purpose.

 

[BY Bob]

I’m in tears now because when I think of Phyllis, I think of BLU, I miss him so much. The physical pain in my body doesn’t match up with the pain I’m feeling in my heart over BLU, or BEN
I must be insane

You are not insane you are human. Do not fault yourself. It's perfectly normal.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I couldn't be more sad. Found out why I've had stomach problems. It's been bad. I have C. diff. Yes, they are finding that animals .. birds...can transmit it. I have a pretty sad immune system. No antibiotics to have caused it. I did this last year. Same time. We tried to figure out what I did the same that caused me to be sick. I hatched! Had this last year but got over it without the help with meds. This year I have to take something and cross fingers it helps. Placing ..all..of my chickens. I don't want to hurt like this again!

So sorry you are going through this. I assume you decided with your doctors that just not hatching was not going to be safe enough for you. So sorry you have to say goodbye to your chickens, this is a tough one. You health must come first.

What do you mean by "No antibiotics to have caused it."?

I greatly sympathize, I got seriously ill with a food-poisoning-type thing, possibly C. diff years ago before it was widely known, in the early '80's, it was never properly diagnosed, I didn't get critical treatment soon enough, and it really did a number on me. Finally found the right doctor. Months of recovery.

 

[BY Bob]

How else could it be done, other than as an instant mash-up? Do people do it one chick at a time? That seems hard on the single.

You introduce them as a group. But I never put them in confined space with the bigs without socializing them together in the yard, free ranging, first. Sometimes for weeks before combining them. For me it seems to be a much longer process than everyone else goes through.