Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

It's never too late for a great chicken photo!

That’s good! I will try to take a “Great Chicken Photo “ next time!

 

[Ribh]

Today's Storm

This one arrived around 5pm.
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I did a panoramic shoot as well.
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I just love this view of your place. It really puts everything into perspective for me!

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

Here's Vicki's mug for Monday.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

All 3 Nest Boxes in Use

That wire is amazing!
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This has had a side effect of being a very interesting behavioral experiment. Maybe if the Best Box is unavailable, the other two are now equally 2nd Best? Possibly until one of those two becomes the more desirable and the new Best Box?

 

[BY Bob]

I just love this view of your place. It really puts everything into perspective for me!

Which one, the panorama?

 

[BY Bob]

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Here's Vicki's mug for Monday.

Our favorite little hussey and Ned's first girlfriend!

 

[micstrachan]

Well that was interesting.
I cracked two roadrunner eggs and one was white inside and one was blue!

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I swapped them around on the counter to be sure it wasn’t a trick of the light.
That was so intriguing I dug through the chips of shell I already fed back to the Princesses. Sure enough a mix of blue and white on the inside.


So I investigated more and I discovered that the white ones actually have a very tightly adhering membrane and are also blue under the membrane.
I peeled the membrane off some chips of shell (it was really stuck on there!) and found blue underneath.
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Edited to add this link on the subject: https://www.mypetchicken.com/backya...as the brown color of,the inside of the shell.

Oh, wow! Thanks for investigating!!!

 

[micstrachan]

So I’m feeling like the world’s worst chicken mom. Ruby got a little bit of fly strike. Yesterday she seemed to be declining and put herself to bed in a nest box. This morning she didn’t seem so great, either, so I let her out for some private free range time. I decided to squirt some warm soapy water on her back end and help her out since she’s been so messy in the back. I pulled a couple chunks of turd off and one of them had a maggot on it! I kind of freaked out, got some more warm soapy water, cleaned her up pretty decently, trimmed feathers, towel dried slightly, patted permethrin powder on the wet area I had just washed, and put neosporin on the raw spot, which was about the size of a dime. I did not actually see any maggots on her, but I definitely saw a maggot on a turd, so I have to assume more might be coming. She seemed pretty weak this morning, but right now at the end of the day, her body language is better than I have seen in a few days. I am hopeful and optimistic that I caught it in time. I feel awful!

 

[Grandmas Coop]

Today's Storm

This one arrived around 5pm.
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I did a panoramic shoot as well.
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cant be good, a lot of lighting in that

 

[fuentemoon]

If she's disdainful of mealies, she really does not need food.

Mine change what they want when they are broody. Normally Rosie will do anything for blueberries, but when she was broody this last time she only wanted scratch.