Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Shadrach]

@BY Bob.
Assuming you've got them under Phyliss and she hasn't gone ape shite you'll need to let her get on with the job.
However, assuming the chicks eat then you need to make sure they can poop.
Pasty Butt is far more likely if the chicks have not gone from the egg yolk in the shells to at least some form of solids within the first day of hatching.
They other thing they may be short of is calcium. The chicks I've watched hatch do eat some egg shell and thsi provides them with a starter calcium boost.
It might be worth putting a very very small amount of a ground up calcium tablet in with the fish/scrambled egg.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

@BY Bob
Okay, I think I've got the general idea.
Sad to read you lost one. Chickens in the post is a pretty horrible experience for all concerend.
Dehydration you'll know about and from what I've read you're doing all you can to deal with it.
However, a box in the post is not a good start to any life and the damage t does even when the chicks arrive promptly isn't well research and documented.
They do need to eat solids as soon as possible.
I would cook up some white fish and then, put the chicks in with Phyliss. You have to take a chance here. If she rejects them then you have an awful lot of work in front of you trying to get them fit and later independant.
Feed the fish to Phyliss and the chicks at the nest site. If you can get Phyliss to call them out to eat (you should place them at the rear end of Phyliss)
Unfortunately you've lost some time here and they are now of that age where they will try to adventure. Of course, Phyliss will want them underneath her if she'll take them at all. I don't know what to do in the event that Phyliss loses her temper if the chicks wont respond to her command.
Basically, chicks need their mums from the moment they hatch if they are to have the best survival chances so the quicker youu try to get thhem under Phyliss the better......like now.
Make scrabbled egg as well and chop it super small and give that at the nest as well.
Try these things out. I'll be around tonight and tomorrow.
Good luck Bob and I'll cross my fingers that Phyliss will take them on.

It’s such relief to have a decisive plan. Thank you Shad.
I feel like I’ve been flapping my arms uselessly and just making noise being no help to Bob at all.
You are brilliant and cool headed in a crisis.

Thank you so much @Shadrach! I knew you'd know what to do & I'm so glad you turned up!

Ditto!

 

[Blazinga]

I'll kill them myself. me and the cat will set up camp

I'm imagining Marie with a crossbow and her cat beside her, ready to take on hoards of mice.

 

[MaryJanet]

I told myself I would never get them by mail again and I did it anyway. There you are. Now they are suffering......

You won't do it again and if you do, fair warning: I will remind you of what you're going through right now.

Fertile eggs under a broody is far less risky.

 

[Blazinga]

I told myself I would never get them by mail again and I did it anyway. There you are. Now they are suffering......

I think next time if I can't get them locally I'd rather order eggs.

 

[MaryJanet]

I think next time if I can't get them locally I'd rather order eggs.

You have really had a hard time with chicks

How is Platina today?

 

[Shadrach]

Hard though it is to believe, it's summer here in the UK.
What with "The Covid", the lack of aeroplanes in the skyand lack of cash for many, camping has become the prefered meansof getting a break.
My daughter and I looked into going camping with a difference. I wanted a campsite that had chickens running about. Surprisingly we found quite a few. In fact, my daughter is at one such campsite now wrestling with a young rooster who seems to think that her sausage breakfast should be shared.
She sent me a couple of pictures. I'm at home on this one looking after Spoko, the dog.
What is/was lovely for me is the chickens at the camp sites we found are properly free range. They campsite owners even warn you that some of the chickens are terrible thieves and not to leave food unattended.
Love it.

 

[MaryJanet]

Hard though it is to believe, it's summer here in the UK.
What with "The Covid", the lack of aeroplanes in the skyand lack of cash for many, camping has become the prefered meansof getting a break.
My daughter and I looked into going camping with a difference. I wanted a campsite that had chickens running about. Surprisingly we found quite a few. In fact, my daughter is at one such campsite now wrestling with a young rooster who seems to think that her sausage breakfast should be shared.
She sent me a couple of pictures. I'm at hope on this one looking after Spoko, the dog.
What is/was lovely for me is the chickens at the camp sites we found are properly free range. They campsite owners even warn you that some of the chickens are terrible thieves and not to leave food unattended.
Love it.View attachment 2787085View attachment 2787086

Oh it's good to know there are so many free range tribes!

 

[RoyalChick]

@BY Bob
Okay, I think I've got the general idea.
Sad to read you lost one. Chickens in the post is a pretty horrible experience for all concerend.
Dehydration you'll know about and from what I've read you're doing all you can to deal with it.
However, a box in the post is not a good start to any life and the damage t does even when the chicks arrive promptly isn't well research and documented.
They do need to eat solids as soon as possible.
I would cook up some white fish and then, put the chicks in with Phyliss. You have to take a chance here. If she rejects them then you have an awful lot of work in front of you trying to get them fit and later independant.
Feed the fish to Phyliss and the chicks at the nest site. If you can get Phyliss to call them out to eat (you should place them at the rear end of Phyliss)
Unfortunately you've lost some time here and they are now of that age where they will try to adventure. Of course, Phyliss will want them underneath her if she'll take them at all. I don't know what to do in the event that Phyliss loses her temper if the chicks wont respond to her command.
Basically, chicks need their mums from the moment they hatch if they are to have the best survival chances so the quicker youu try to get thhem under Phyliss the better......like now.
Make scrabbled egg as well and chop it super small and give that at the nest as well.
Try these things out. I'll be around tonight and tomorrow.
Good luck Bob and I'll cross my fingers that Phyliss will take them on.

Oh thank goodness you showed up now Shad!
Do they need grit if they get fish?

 

[featherhead007]

You can take a man away from the chickens, but you can never take the chickens from the man! (Kinda like riding a bicycle)