Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Keeping Watch over her Flock

From My Chair!

 

[BY Bob]

Rather sad.

Yup. It's a constant reminder.

 

[RoyalChick]

Yup. It's a constant reminder.

I know.
But I still think it is good they know to be watchful.

 

[Shadrach]

Seems health care systems Round the world are all lacking!!!

I believe it's called lack of investment. This is certainly the case in the UK.
Unfortunately the current UK encumbants want to adopt a private care system like in the USA.
There hasn't been a worse idea in the last 100 years. Why is it the UK tries to import all the American crap but never imports the good bits.
Tax.

 

[MaryJanet]

What a lovely mug shot of Hattie! I love her eyes...they are like Astralorp eyes, deep coloring and somewhat large. I have a hen (Raven) that is part Astralorp and has those large brown eyes...when she cocks her head and looks at me, it makes me melt. (It doesn't help that she is such a sweetie, too, similar to Hattie . She follows me everywhere when I am out!)

I'm giggling because I'm recalling a time someone looked at a photo of Mary and asked me what was wrong with her eyes! Hehehe! I'll see if I can find it...

 

[MaryJanet]

Maggie’s therapy
I am working on what I can do something about with Maggie. If she either had leg weakness caused by some deficiency (probably from not eating commercial food) or something like a stroke, then physical therapy might help.
So I rigged up a sure fire Maggie physio mechanism.
Here you see her balancing on a log and standing on tippy toe while reaching up high. I think she is doing rather well.
She will do pretty much anything for an ear of corn!

That's clever!

 

[MaryJanet]

I'm giggling because I'm recalling a time someone looked a photo of Mary and asked me what was wrong with her eyes! Hehehe! I'll see if I can find it...

Found it!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...tion-submissions.1345170/page-6#post-22114003

 

[BY Bob]

Waiting for Santa

Many of you will recall in that in 2019 3 of my 4 hens got to see Santa. When you got to PetsMart, you had to wait in your car with your "pet" until it was your turn to see Santa. I realized today that I took video of Aurora patiently waiting in the car for her chance to see Santa. You can see the excitement and expectation in her face. Watch along with me.

Here is her photo with the big guy from 2 years ago today.

 

[MaryJanet]

Phyllis goes out to eat. She does not cook.

The epitome of metropolitan chic (or is that chic-ken, I'll show myself out).

 

[MaryJanet]

I am at a bit of a loss on Maggie and roosting.
In spite of two days of near perfect balance she is still going to bed in a nest box. Here she is demonstrating her perfect balance by going up to the upper level boxes.
Should I let her decide on her own when she is well enough to roost again? Or should I block her access to encourage her to roost? I could of course also haul her out at night and put her up there.
I am not sure what is best really.

It's not something that I'd worry about. She'll switch to the roost when she's ready.