Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Even though I don't care for the song, I'm about ready to put a speaker outside where Poppy is and put Fleetwood Macs song "Little Lies" on repeat. For a week now she has tortured me. She has a spot on the outside or Russ's stall all to herself that she has chosen to build a nest. Every day starting around noon she goes there and will spend up to 4 hours sitting in it, rearranging every piece of hay, stand up, sit down, take a nap etc.. For the past 2 days when she has finally left she's left squawking like she laid a egg and throwing bits of hay on her back and there is NOTHING. She is 7 months old tomorrow so she is in the age range to lay that first egg now. How long is this little poof going to torture me.

Play the Fleetwood Mac! Stevie Nicks voice, should shake an egg out of her!!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Play the Fleetwood Mac! Stevie Nicks voice, should shake an egg out of her!!

I'm ready to, I even changed up feed just for her. She wanted to eat the layer pellets but acted like they were in general to big for her so I would crunch them up and she inhaled them. Even though I have 2/3 of a bag left I went to tractor supply and got a 40lb bag of the same thing in I think it said mini pellets. 2nd day using it and I have to put both types of pellets out, Poppy loves the mini pellets, the rest of my girls refused to even acknowledge it so they get the normal pellets.

 

[RoyalChick]

We have had a little snow fall this morning but the girls have managed too have a little out time. They had some liver and heart after their feed this morning and just gave them a little cracked corn to warm them this evening before they go to bed

Flexi cleaning Agathas beak. Greedy flexi

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Hilarious! Great picture.

 

[featherhead007]

I'm ready to, I even changed up feed just for her. She wanted to eat the layer pellets but acted like they were in general to big for her so I would crunch them up and she inhaled them. Even though I have 2/3 of a bag left I went to tractor supply and got a 40lb bag of the same thing in I think it said mini pellets. 2nd day using it and I have to put both types of pellets out, Poppy loves the mini pellets, the rest of my girls refused to even acknowledge it so they get the normal pellets.

You need to get her some of these:

 

[bgmathteach]

Lovely girl!

another Blast From the Past:

OMG: gotta love that head buried and can only see her fluffy butt shot!!!!

Somebody takes full advantage of the 'big coop'...and the treats therein!

 

[Ponypoor]

I just had a freak out couple of hours...

Missing chicken

I walked this property looking for chicken tracks, I tracked a fox tracks who cut across my property I check for chicken tracks around the manure pile. I just couldn't see where Whiskers got to.

Only conclusion is a hawk or other bird of prey got her

I check inside this barn everywhere climbing up a mountain of baled shavings... No Whiskers...

Poor Blanche just kept hanging out on the hay pile quietly chortling.... Wait? What?

That isn't Blanche making that noise is it? Where the H E double L is that coming from? I checked the whole pile for spots they can lay eggs - no hen... Yet I can hear a hen chortling... I get down on the ground and see this tiny crevasse and a grey fluffy butt... Stuck in between the bales!!!

OMG dumb arse cluck! What I don't have enough nest boxes? Well I hauled the bale out and there she was - Whiskers Chick-fil-A , I was so furious, glad, happy, and of course could see the gallows humour... I told her she at least had better have laid an egg there... She did

All is well at Bay-de-Verde Acres today. But I told the chickies no one was ever allowed out ever again - or until I can Fix a proper covered run darn chickens.

Maybe now I can get some work done to pay for that new covered run I need to put up!!!

 

[Ponypoor]

Even though I don't care for the song, I'm about ready to put a speaker outside where Poppy is and put Fleetwood Macs song "Little Lies" on repeat. For a week now she has tortured me. She has a spot on the outside or Russ's stall all to herself that she has chosen to build a nest. Every day starting around noon she goes there and will spend up to 4 hours sitting in it, rearranging every piece of hay, stand up, sit down, take a nap etc.. For the past 2 days when she has finally left she's left squawking like she laid a egg and throwing bits of hay on her back and there is NOTHING. She is 7 months old tomorrow so she is in the age range to lay that first egg now. How long is this little poof going to torture me.

Must be related to my Whiskers... Sweet little lies....

 

[Ponypoor]

Here some more for you

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Hahaha love that snow pic!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I just had a freak out couple of hours...

Missing chicken

I walked this property looking for chicken tracks, I tracked a fox tracks who cut across my property I check for chicken tracks around the manure pile. I just couldn't see where Whiskers got to.

Only conclusion is a hawk or other bird of prey got her

I check inside this barn everywhere climbing up a mountain of baled shavings... No Whiskers...

Poor Blanche just kept hanging out on the hay pile quietly chortling.... Wait? What?

That isn't Blanche making that noise is it? Where the H E double L is that coming from? I checked the whole pile for spots they can lay eggs - no hen... Yet I can hear a hen chortling... I get down on the ground and see this tiny crevasse and a grey fluffy butt... Stuck in between the bales!!!

OMG dumb arse cluck! What I don't have enough nest boxes? Well I hauled the bale out and there she was - Whiskers Chick-fil-A , I was so furious, glad, happy, and of course could see the gallows humour... I told her she at least had better have laid an egg there... She did

All is well at Bay-de-Verde Acres today. But I told the chickies no one was ever allowed out ever again - or until I can Fix a proper covered run darn chickens.

Maybe now I can get some work done to pay for that new covered run I need to put up!!!

My momma hen does that, hide under the hay pile to lay eggs. Last summer she hid so good that I feared her gone. Nope 3 weeks later turned up with 10 chicks in tow. Followed her that night when she took them back to the nest to put them to bed, she had squeezed underneath so far that If I had found her nest there was no way I could have reached it to move it and break her up. Evil hen. And of those 10, only 2 pullets which I rehomed since while I love momma hen, ok, tolerate most times I want nothing to do with any more game or game cross hens.

 

[bgmathteach]

I have heard of them drinking coffee but never soft drinks.

BFTP:
Okay, I have to ask, as I'm confused:

Both Dr. Pepper and coffee (unless decaf) have caffeine. Isn't caffeine bad for them (chickens)?