Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Pony Sunday pic. Taken a few days ago.
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Notice the line of palm trees north east, in that picture? (I call them California redwoods )

 

[featherhead007]

When I get a telemarketer (and my iphone says so) I answer with “Hello, this is the Ocean Aquarium, warning this conversation, may be recorded for training Porpoises !”

 

[Ponypoor]

Notice the line of palm trees north east, in that picture? (I call them California redwoods )

Ya sure rub it in... I am gonna send snow your way

Meanwhile Chaco is looking good!

 

[Ponypoor]

When I get a telemarketer (and my iphone says so) I answer with “Hello, this is the Ocean Aquarium, warning this conversation, may be recorded for training Porpoises !”

(Groan) pun-meter gives it an 8

 

[Ponypoor]

Of course they are thinking about it...after all, that is where Mum lives, in the big coop!

Just think, u could have chicken for lunch!

 

[Ponypoor]

Yep, last month and a bit of the Saturday markets (I was told that the guys putting up the house wanted us to give them cash as well as the ridiculous number of goats they hunted) I managed to save a little over $5k, and still cover all the overhead to maintain product levels. May-November are usually insane for us schedule wise as DH is working two paying jobs (almost like one full time one ) plus working at the abattoir here three days a week for free. There’s also the Saturday market, peeping the product for the markets, and the chickens… meat chickens included. Which is going to make the whole “roof” thing that much more challenging.
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Re: inviting them in for lunch...

I had to hide in the barn to eat my lunch today....

And an apology to alex for having chicken for lunch (sorry!).

 

[featherhead007]

Ya sure rub it in... I am gonna send snow your way

Meanwhile Chaco is looking good!

Please send all the snow you can!!

 

[featherhead007]

Re: inviting them in for lunch...

I had to hide in the barn to eat my lunch today....

And an apology to alex for having chicken for lunch (sorry!).

I’m attacked by my chooks every day!

 

[Ponypoor]

How old is Blanche? I would be worried for 2 reasons: 1) Thin shelled or rubbery eggs (i.e. no shell, just membrane) are harder for them to lay, and may break inside them (setting them up an infection) and 2) It can be indicative of low calcium levels. If she doesn't have enough calcium reserves...it means she is pulling some from her bones.

She is two so not old, I am feeding layer and oyster shell. I am leaning towards her getting older and her system getting out of wack, in all other aspects she is good.

I never see her straining, or sitting in the box looking distressed. Of course birds are notoriously hard to spot any illness with. She and Buttercup regularly take off across the paddock doing their thing freaking me out.

In fact I haven't seen her in a bit.....

Yep had to go hunt for here, found her rooting around the back of the barn, can't wait to get the run finished, so my escape artists are contained!!

Anyway I will keep an eye on her, but I have a feeling it's more than a calcium thing, many mornings I find two eggs on the ground under the roost, it's like they just race to get out of her system! Runny eggs .

Adding a photo of Blanche

 

[Kris5902]

She may have re-roosted in the night. Is that a roost that had a ramp? For some reason Betty and Hattie do not poop a lot when they sleep in nest boxes. I can't figure it out but they seem to hold it in. Hattie is a real roamer so she may leave the box, poop, eat, drink, and then return. I have never watched closely enough.

A lot of my girls will hold things in over night, and upon morning let out there are several Sheep sized chicken bombs deposited not far from the coop. I’m not sure why they do this bit I think it might be somewhat related to going broody as well. That didn’t stop Goldie from fouling her box yesterday, which I was then required to clean for her. Extremely painful. She bites and shakes her head like a pit Bull. I swear she’s the meanest chicken I have, even over my hawk attacking Bully girl.