Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Boots and fluffy butts. I shall have to have a word with mrs Bob

Be careful @RoyalChick first there was Alex and now our Bob

I heard that!

 

[Marie2020]

I heard that!

I didn't see Alex coming in, hide me

 

[Shadrach]

Oh dear - poor Volt. I am very familiar with this "you are poisoning my food" phenomenon!
I noticed today as I tried to get more calories into Minnie that there is a safety in numbers mindset. Even though she gets run off by the others she would rather eat what the others are getting than something specifically for her. It makes it all very complicated!
I do hope you manage to help Volt turn around and I do hope you will share a picture of her in the shopping bag.

It's a strange thing. Chickens are social eaters. They also seem to take comfort in having their tribe/group around them when they are sick. I have read people posting that their hens attack a sick chicken but it's not something I've seen.
Read just about any of the American based/cited medical advice and they almost always say seperate the sick one form the others. Speak to a competant vet in Spain and many other countries with rather more knowledge and experience with chickens and they will tell you to keep the sick one with the other chickens unless the problem is contagious.
Of course, once isolated the chicken feels stressed in most instances because they are unused to the isolation environment and they stop eating.
One really wants a sick chicken to eat as normal if possible. In the end, decent nutrition is likely to speed recovery.
When I bring Volt to the allotment, Henry shuffles around her giving her gentle pecks and most of the time a couple of hens gathered around her and get right next to her as if they are trying to keep her warm and protected.

 

[Marie2020]

It's a strange thing. Chickens are social eaters. They also seem to take comfort in having their tribe/group around them when they are sick. I have read people posting that their hens attack a sick chicken but it's not something I've seen.
Read just about any of the American based/cited medical advice and they almost always say seperate the sick one form the others. Speak to a competant vet in Spain and many other countries with rather more knowledge and experience with chickens and they will tell you to keep the sick one with the other chickens unless the problem is contagious.
Of course, once isolated the chicken feels stressed in most instances because they are unused to the isolation environment and they stop eating.
One really wants a sick chicken to eat as normal if possible. In the end, decent nutrition is likely to speed recovery.
When I bring Volt to the allotment, Henry shuffles around her giving her gentle pecks and most of the time a couple of hens gathered around her and get right next to her as if they are trying to keep her warm and protected.
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Thanks for that information

Flexi and princess are so protective of amber, everyone makes sure she eats her fill first

 

[bgmathteach]

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I love seeing your chickens out & about! Always wonderful pictures

 

[featherhead007]

I didn't see Alex coming in, hide me

Don’t worry about me, Jaffar is molting (and is in a very bad mood) Worry about him!

 

[Marie2020]

Don’t worry about me, Jaffar is molting (and is in a very bad mood) Worry about him!

Hides from Jaffar

 

[RoyalChick]

It's a strange thing. Chickens are social eaters. They also seem to take comfort in having their tribe/group around them when they are sick. I have read people posting that their hens attack a sick chicken but it's not something I've seen.
Read just about any of the American based/cited medical advice and they almost always say seperate the sick one form the others. Speak to a competant vet in Spain and many other countries with rather more knowledge and experience with chickens and they will tell you to keep the sick one with the other chickens unless the problem is contagious.
Of course, once isolated the chicken feels stressed in most instances because they are unused to the isolation environment and they stop eating.
One really wants a sick chicken to eat as normal if possible. In the end, decent nutrition is likely to speed recovery.
When I bring Volt to the allotment, Henry shuffles around her giving her gentle pecks and most of the time a couple of hens gathered around her and get right next to her as if they are trying to keep her warm and protected.
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The vet I took Minnie to (the one who keeps chickens herself) was very against isolation. She liked that my hospital ward was inside the coop so she wouldn't be isolated and advocated only putting her in there at night so she could wake up and get a breakfast uninterrupted before being let out again.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

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I'm going to have to name this one soon, I'm getting to see an awfullot of her.

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The last one, her comb looks like a moose antler, and a coral too.

 

[Blazinga]

Chicken Tax (finally got more pics!)
My DC girls (4 of the 8 in first pic)

These are game Cornish? How do they differ from Broiler Cornish in terms of behavior and lifespan?