Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

I have 2 that scream if they're in a box and I'm checking for eggs. NOT broody, just YOU'RE LOOKING AT ME, STOP IT!!!

Yep I have those also, I am fairly certain that those who made The Exorcist used screaming hens sitting in a nest box

 

[Ponypoor]

No, no roosters allowed in suburbia.

Yep I get that

Pangoo wakes me at 04:30 in the summer and he is already crowing at 5am in the winter and it's pitch dark out!!!

 

[BY Bob]

Something I Never Thought I would See!

Betty flew into the coop door today at roosting time. I have video from both inside and outside the coop. You need to watch closely because it happens very fast. Here is where to watch for the impact with each video.

From in the coop

From outside the coop

Quite possibly the craziest chicken related thing I have ever seen.

 

[BY Bob]

Something I Never Thought I would See!

Betty flew into the coop door today at roosting time. I have video from both inside and outside the coop. You need to watch closely because it happens very fast. Here is where to watch for the impact with each video.

From in the coop
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From outside the coop

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Quite possibly the craziest chicken related thing I have ever seen.

@Ribh @MaryJanet @LozzyR @Aussie-Chookmum @micstrachan @ChicoryBlue

 

[Ponypoor]

WHAT is this? Rocks-Anne was just now attempting to lay an egg. This was the result. She’s an older lady though. It does have a full hard shell. But kinda small! View attachment 2978045

I had one like that the other day, I figured out Buttercup laid it, but then she laid a normal one today....

 

[BY Bob]

Jess is in a nest box, Thing is out the other side of the olives, and Silver and Pear are teaching Storm about the value of the woodpileView attachment 2978160

Wonderful!

 

[BY Bob]

Surely not that small Bob maybe a fairy chicken but they don't exist, do they?

Who am I to say?

 

[BY Bob]

I can't win. Today I had a 'genius idea' which was to clear out the hospital ward and put the oil filled radiator in it where it would be right behind where the Roadrunners roost so they could toast their butts (one fluffy, the other naked) while they slept.
So I tidied, reorganized, located a safe extension cord, swept up the pine shavings, moved the radiator, tested it worked, relocated the temperature sensor. And what happens? The Roadrunners have decided to roost elsewhere. They are together so I think I am going to leave well alone. It goes down to 9F tonight which is a couple of degrees warmer than yesterday.

You could move them now that it is dark.

 

[Ponypoor]

I prefer “Bob’s Fairy Egg” better

Yep they are fairy eggs, the little one my hen laid even had a small yolk in it!

 

[rural mouse]

This is very interesting to me. You have 2, @RoyalChick has 1. I have never heard of any chicken molting in January before. Never. Something is going on but I can't figure what would cause this!

I got one too. Pear had been dropping feathers slowly, growing in new ones, then we got the big cold and she dropped half her body feathers. She's also more inclined to range farther than the rest. Hunting up choice food? Pellets in the coop: all flock, 20% protein. scratch with extra goodies like sunflower seeds outside. I have a turnip growing in a pot in the house. They're getting the leaves about 1/week. (Turnip sprouted in the fridge, so planted it)