Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

This little man has had a cough for the past couple of days. I've just made up a mix of turmeric a tiny splash of acv, cloves ginger all left too brew then drizzled in manuka honey as it cooled down plus more manuka too lick off my finger. Coughing has stopped for now and fingers it will be gone soon. He's got a normal temperature and a cold wet nose .

I love my boy

 

[Marie2020]

Flexi said: Princess your bottom is dirty so 2 guesses who'll be having a botty wash tonight

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Happy Monday everyone. Today I thought we would check in with a character from the "exorcist", oops I mean Bunny.
Yes in this video I provoked her by petting her, but imagine this and worse emitting from the couch as you walk by in the dark in the middle of the night.

Now for some mugshots of the possessed hen.

The state of my couch currently. I am guilty of tossing a load of laundry on the couch to fold later. She growls while it is being folded but remains on her eggs. Momma hen would never be allowed this privilege, she would come out for blood if I sat beside her.

 

[micstrachan]

It was a pun. Moon going black, is the eclipse!

Oh! Apparently I’m a little slow on the uptake.

 

[micstrachan]

Got a couple mugs (sort of) this weekend…

 

[featherhead007]

Happy Monday everyone. Today I thought we would check in with a character from the "exorcist", oops I mean Bunny.
Yes in this video I provoked her by petting her, but imagine this and worse emitting from the couch as you walk by in the dark in the middle of the night.

Now for some mugshots of the possessed hen.
View attachment 3110580View attachment 3110581View attachment 3110582
The state of my couch currently. I am guilty of tossing a load of laundry on the couch to fold later. She growls while it is being folded but remains on her eggs. Momma hen would never be allowed this privilege, she would come out for blood if I sat beside her.
View attachment 3110587

She don’t know that she has it so good!

 

[bgmathteach]

Thank you for the words of encouragement.
I am actually not too afraid Bernadette will hurt herself and I do believe she will only learn to adapt if she goes out in the world and tries to do things. I am impressed by how much she is able to do and has already learned to do.
I am a little afraid that she won't be able to get away fast enough if one of the big chickens attacks her and that she needs to be able to find her way back to the safe places where the big ones can't reach her. Both Bella and Lulu can fly up to their penthouse. Bernadette just cannot leap up and however much she flaps she can't get above 18" (a half a meter).
I believe that Bella and Lulu are not going out and exploring the coop because Bernadette cannot physically do so and so they stay with her. Now they have access at ground level so I am hoping that Bernadette will be able to explore and the others will go with her.
But the signs are not encouraging. They have settled into their ground floor apartment and are spending their time cuddled together in a cardboard box just a few steps from a doorway to the wider coop world. They are alert but they prefer to watch everything from the comfort of the cardboard box!
They behave a bit like a cult - they have everything they need from each other and no need to enter into the outside world.
I have blocked off access to the penthouse because all of a sudden this morning the lovely Minnie has become very ill. I thought I felt a stuck egg but then it wasn't there so I am not certain. So Minnie has moved into the penthouse (hospital ward) and the Hooligans are confined to their ground floor apartment with access to the whole of the Chicken Palace if they would just get off their butts and explore!

Here they are cuddled in their ground floor apartment all tangled together in the cardboard box they love. They go out and eat and drink and then come back and spend the day together in the box.
View attachment 3110450

And here is Minnie who is really the picture of misery and who I fear I may lose. She is not moving and as you can see is very miserable. She looks just like Elizabeth before she died. Same thing - yesterday she was fine. This morning definitely not fine.


View attachment 3110446View attachment 3110448

Awww,sweet Minnie...I hope you feel better soon!
And Minnie's mom, I hope you are able to convince her into letting you know what ails her so you can help.

 

[RoyalChick]

I just made a vet appointment for tomorrow morning for Minnie (assuming she lasts that long). I doubt the vet will be able to help - I am a big fan of hers and she has chickens herself, but she is not specifically an avian vet and I don't think many people bring in chickens (at least not judging by the celebrity status that Bernadette has with the clinic staff!), so her experience base is limited.
I can't believe how fast these creatures go off. She was absolutely fine all day yesterday - I spent a fair bit of time inside the Chicken Palace because I was constructing the ground floor apartment for the Hooligans and I took lots of breaks sitting out with the big Princesses as they foraged around outside.
Late - when it was almost dark - I thought she looked a bit fluffed up on the roost - but not enough to cause alarm and frankly everyone was heads well tucked in I think because of all the rukus the Hooligans were making when it was well past bedtime.

 

[Marie2020]

Got a couple mugs (sort of) this weekend…
View attachment 3110614
View attachment 3110615

Lovely photos
How are you feeling?

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

She don’t know that she has it so good!

I think deep down if if chickens are capable of the feeling she is gloating. I had been fighting with her, and winning I might add since early last fall. Out of the blue she started coming in any open window or door she could find and always tried to make a beeline for one of the couches. She was always gently carried back outside where she would eventually lay in the porch box. She stopped this in the winter, mostly due to nothing was left open and she took a break from laying. She picked back up laying around the first of February, and at first she was once again content to lay in the porch box. The weather warmed up and windows and doors started being left open at times. It took her 2 weeks before she was coming back inside. All was going well until grandma moved in and you all know the rest. What I don't understand is her desire to sit on the couch. It is a open area, lots of traffic and definitely NOT quite yet here we are.