Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Now take it easy with these complements. He's already dreaming of being Alexander the great.

I'm working on Alexander the magnificent. "Great just isn't strong enough"

 

[featherhead007]

I have to go to court today and file an eviction order, and a do not trespass order on my vagant renter that I thought I could trust! But what about the chickens that Jeanette had to leave behind? This is madness!

 

[Grandmas Coop]

My dear wife and I have been married for 31 or as I like to say Thirty Onederful years. There are certain times that I simply cannot deny her, hence the 31 years.

One Saturday my oldest daughter was home and we had to run to Tractor Supply for litter pan liners and food for the cats. Tractor Supply had the only litter pan liners that my wife liked so there we went. Everyone decided to come because they knew the chicks would be there and they wanted to see them. We did it all the time.

"Look how cute."
"That one is standing in the water."
"Did that one just poo in the food dish!"
"They are just too cute for words."
"OK lets get out of here."

This time was different and my wife couldn't take it. She wanted chicks to raise. I was immediately opposed. I knew how this would work out. Just like my brother she would give them up. She would last longer but once they were no longer cute little chicks she would tire of them and I would have a decade of chicken responsibility thrust into my lap. All that work required to take care of all those meat roosters came rushing back.

"No" I said, "they are too much work".
"I'll take care of them"
"You don't know what you are getting into"
"You do, you will help me"
"No"
"My friend Jody has chickens, we can do it"
"We can do it, I just don't want to"

Honestly she was wearing me down. Then I saw the sign, 6 chicks minimum. We do not live way out in the country. We have the largest lot in our development but a development it is.

"There is no way we have room for 6 chickens, the mess, the coop, etc."
"What if i can find someone to take 4 of them?"
I thought this was my way out so I grabbed it. "If you can find someone to take 4 of them, you can have 2."

She was thrilled. She immediately called her friend Jody. She already has chickens, whats 4 more? Well apparently 4 more chickens was more than Jody could bear. No was her reply.

We have all seen people whose dreams have been crushed, whose very joy has been sucked out of their life by say a pass interference that wasn't called (see New Orleans Saints). Those photos of fans so devastated that they cannot leave the stadium until hours after the sporting event. Those people looked cheerful compared to my wife. She was destroyed. I have never seen such utter devastation on my wife's face.

It was so bad my daughter came to me and said, we have to get her these chickens Dad. Look at her. So without any place to put them, no coop, no brooder, no anything, we bought 6 leghorn chicks (supposedly all hens), a heat lamp, chick starter, a food dispenser and water dispenser and headed home. I told her we had to find a home for four of them but she did not care. She had her chicks. Here she is holding one of them.
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At first I thought an old aquarium would be big enough for the chicks, not even close. I remembered an old foot locker my youngest had used at college that had gotten left at our house. However I needed to cover it or the 3 cats would have a field day with the chicks. My oldest was an engineering student in college and she reminded me that she had brought some chicken wire home which she had used for a college project and we had a lid. The chicks had a place to grow up. My wife was thrilled, my oldest loved the chicks. All was good.
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Only I was thinking of the future. I did not have a shed like my dad to donate to the chickens. At some point soon they were going to need a coop.............

So,,, Bob, how are they all doing now! yes, I am reminiscing on you thread too, I did mine last night

 

[BY Bob]

I'm not sure about most people, but my medical thread has been answered by silence.

I'm going to go look.

 

[BY Bob]

We left her at the veteranarian's. Hope they can help her.

Good idea. Hopefully they can figure this out. Please let us know anything you learn. I just don't have a lot of knowledge around chick issues.

I tagged some people in the sick thread. If nothing else maybe we can learn who the chick experts are.

 

[BY Bob]

I'm working on Alexander the magnificent. "Great just isn't strong enough"

Sounds like a magician.

 

[BY Bob]

I have to go to court today and file an eviction order, and a do not trespass order on my vagant renter that I thought I could trust! But what about the chickens that Jeanette had to leave behind? This is madness!

Oh no, I'm so sorry.

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

Hello Peaches

Any idea how far along she is?

I don't really know, but I don't think it will be long. He nipples are enlarged, but not full of milk yet. I'm pretty sure I felt a kitten move when I picked her up yesterday.

I'm hoping she hangs on for at least a week or so that way she has some good nutrition before she gives birth. Right now she's eating and sleeping, which is exactly what she needs to do.

 

[RoyalChick]

I'm not sure about most people, but my medical thread has been answered by silence.

How is she doing?

 

[RoyalChick]

I have to go to court today and file an eviction order, and a do not trespass order on my vagant renter that I thought I could trust! But what about the chickens that Jeanette had to leave behind? This is madness!

Ugh. Sorry you are having to deal with that.