Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

We need indignant pic too.

Now he won't turn away from me anymore haha

 

[rural mouse]

Yep I have nightmares of that

I don't leave buckets with water in them for them to fly into, I know I am paranoid, but I have learnt the hard way with the horses that animals can get into all sorts of trouble!!

My chickens NCR wrote a description on my invoice 'During the daily stampede, two yearlings collided with each other'.... One of them spent 6 weeks on stall rest for a big me chip!!!

Can you imagine what sort of trouble chickens can get up to? Like getting wedged between two hay bales? Never to be found until evening feeding...

I have visions of the wedge re: my wood pile. So far, nothing, but I check periodically for eggs, and if someone's missing come dark, it's on the list to check even though they've NEVER gone down into it.

Now where's some wood (without going outside). I need to go knock on it.

 

[Ponypoor]

Yep I have nightmares of that

I don't leave buckets with water in them for them to fly into, I know I am paranoid, but I have learnt the hard way with the horses that animals can get into all sorts of trouble!!

My Veterinarian once wrote a description on my invoice 'During the daily stampede, two yearlings collided with each other'.... One of them spent 6 weeks on stall rest for a bone chip!!!

Can you imagine what sort of trouble chickens can get up to? Like getting wedged between two hay bales? Never to be found until evening feeding...

Had to edit this as my darn autocorrect was acting up...

 

[Ponypoor]

Aww, sweet Phyllis. Watching her little

haha! Not sure what happened there. Suddenly the page was gone and then I lost my spot. Must have pressed reply and post accidentally!

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Ya I have those moments too, just had one

 

[Ponypoor]

I have visions of the wedge re: my wood pile. So far, nothing, but I check periodically for eggs, and if someone's missing come dark, it's on the list to check even though they've NEVER gone down into it.

Now where's some wood (without going outside). I need to go knock on it.

Well don't know if you read my entry a while back about, one of my gals went missing. I searched the whole property and the barn, no hen.

Then I noticed Blanche sitting on the hay pile most of the day. Then I heard this quiet squawking... I found that silly hen wedged between two bales! Oh not worry if I hadn't noticed Blanche standing guard I would have found her at the 8pm night time hay feeding. Can you just imagine my surprise if that had happened

She even. Laid an egg in there hahaha

 

[rural mouse]

I lost this thread, AGAIN.

I got a week behind and found myself about 100 pages behind....its quite easy!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Yep I have nightmares of that

I don't leave buckets with water in them for them to fly into, I know I am paranoid, but I have learnt the hard way with the horses that animals can get into all sorts of trouble!!

My chickens NCR wrote a description on my invoice 'During the daily stampede, two yearlings collided with each other'.... One of them spent 6 weeks on stall rest for a big me chip!!!

Can you imagine what sort of trouble chickens can get up to? Like getting wedged between two hay bales? Never to be found until evening feeding...

Chickens are like horses in trying to find ways to kill themselves. My silkies were terrible until between 6 to 7 weeks old. Branch almost did kill himself, He managed to get into a bucket that had about 3 inches of rainwater. I do not know how long he had been in it, but my dad found him and brought the drowned rat to me. I had to use the hair dryer to dry him off and warm him up.

 

[rural mouse]

Well what's a person to do trying to work from home with the chickies carrying on... Sing! Introducing Sophia The Great Pretender

I gotta try singing them down. Thing goes off so loudly (and Nellie has started following suit) that I can here her clearly from inside the house, over the noise from video games the boys play. As loud as she is, I will NEVER set up nest boxes by the door like @RebeccaBoyd has or my husband will never sleep (he's working nights). Cheetah goes off like that when he's trying to call me out to deal with something....like a strange cat in the yard....or the Sun is green and purple.....or the wind torked his feathers and I need to turn it off....hoping he'll settle that down some over the next year.

 

[featherhead007]

Had to edit this as my darn autocorrect was acting up...

Auto correct doesn’t like swear words!!

 

[rural mouse]

I got a week behind and found myself about 100 pages behind....its quite easy!

Now I'm playing catch up again.....and keeping a window permanently open on this page.