Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

Asphodel and Hector in Jess's broody box, Twirp above.

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[Ponypoor]

Asphodel and Hector in Jess's broody box, Twirp above.
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So pretty, what beauties

 

[Ponypoor]

Mugs Monday

Buttercup seems to have hurt herself… She’s limping heavily and favoring a leg pretty badly. I’m hoping she is just sore and will be better in the morning. I might have to help her up to the roost tonight and help her down in the morning.

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I am also so grateful that ALL of my feathered babies get to spend their WHOLE lives here in one place.
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I am happy you get to spend you time with them in you home

I bet it's a load off your shoulders.

 

[Ponypoor]

Twofer Tuesday

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Oh they have you well trained!!!!

What lovely ladies

 

[Ponypoor]

Amazingly, she got herself up to bed on the high roost! I might have to get up early to help her down in rhe morning. I had gotten a small pet carrier ready with a fluffy towel in the bottom so she coukd be cozy on the coop floor, and she was having no part of that. She’s favoring the one leg so much, though, she’s tilting. I hope she can rest on a roost ok like that. She’s on a 2x4 fkat side up and wrapped in a towel, but she has four jumps to get down! I seriously need to get up early and get her down.

Keep us updated

How do feel today?

 

[BY Bob]

Asphodel and Hector in Jess's broody box, Twirp above.
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Lovely photos!

 

[BY Bob]

Sounds like one of the warning calls I hear here. Not the "freeze, dont move" but more "be aware". Maybe she heard a hawk call far enough away to not be imminent danger, but close enough to know one's out and about. Her call: loud enough to be heard, soft enough/brief enough to be missedroost in background noises form a distance.

If that's so she recognized something I did not see or hear. That is certainly possible of course. I can't remember how the others reacted at the time.

 

[BY Bob]

What is this Noise Aurora was Making?

This was going on over a week ago. She stopped making the noise, from what I have seen, after a couple of days. It was like 3 days she was doing this every so often.

This just occurred to me, could she be trying to crow?

 

[Bonwell]

Good day to you BYC friends:
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Aww, she reminds me of a great chicken I had a few years ago

 

[Lexicon]

Yes, because though it will keep most ground predators out it won't protect against aerial predators at all, and it restricts the chickens' escape in the event. Besides Queenie who was grievously, seriously attacked against the fence (and she got away and tried for the coop but died from injuries on her way there or got jumped again), likely the same hawk came after Butters some days later while I was standing in the doorway supposedly watching, but I had just looked at my phone! I saw the motion peripherally - saw this thing descend on her, and saw her see it at the last second and squirm away out of it's feet. As I ran the hawk jump flew over to her, and she kept going another couple feet and went up against the fence. The hawk saw me and jump flew up to a chair back and paused, considering what an easy catch she would be I think, but then I was ten feet away and it flew off before I could smack it.
@Ponypoor @RoyalChick

I am so sorry that happened to Queenie and Butters. I will keep this in mind. The section that I allowed them access to last summer has a lot of tree cover and they made use of it. I was really amazed at their awareness as I would see them all melt under cover and I would look up to search the sky and see a hawk way far up. They have amazing eyesight!

I basically live in a forest, but wanted to give them access to the open area near the garden which has more green vegetation. I will make sure to put some cover in that area for them and keep an eye on them while working outside. Now if it would only stop snowing, so something could grow!