Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[micstrachan]

I'm in Tulare County Central Valley (Where all the citrus and nut growers have their fields) South of you.

Is it crazy hot in the summer? It actually gets pretty hot here, snd I’m sure it’s hotter there.

 

[micstrachan]

That broody trance is really interesting. I would love to know exactly what switches off and what still functions. Something happens to their legs, this is quite apparent.
I find once their legs are fully extended they wake up. I nake the poor hens walk, just to make sure they're awake.

This happened with Buttercup today. I noticed she had been in the neat too long, took her put while she was in a trance. carried her a ways off, and she sat for several seconds before getting up. Then she sang the egg song and joined the others.

 

[Ali James]

She doesn't look impressed.

Very little impresses her Majesty, its only when I break out the live mealworms does she deign to get animated!

 

[micstrachan]

Silly chickens... I just had to shoo away a turkey vulture. The alarms today have been nearly cons between the geese, vulture, and ravens

We have lots of turkey vultures. Tge girls always notice them, but will carry on if I reassure them, “It’s ok, it’s ok” in a sing-song voice.

 

[LozzyR]

I use Kaytee Exact. I don’t think it’s organic, like their regular feed, but they LOVE it. It’s also easy to get through a syringe.

The baby bird food I was giving Chickie says “discard unused food after two weeks“. Would that count for all birds or just the babies?

 

[BY Bob]

I never really noticed that Aurora has a beard. What breed/s is she?

She is an Easter Egger that plays what I choose to call pink eggs (they are probably light brown)

 

[BY Bob]

I totally didn’t catch this typo at first

it’s “Hoppy” not Hobby... and thanks for all the well wishes! She is doing better, I don’t know if we will ever make it back to 100% chickening and free ranging, but she is tentatively walking around inside my laundry basket now, so things are looking up! As to the significance of her name... she Hops

Her story, for anyone who doesn’t know it, is that she is one of my “farm coop” rescues and a rehab girl. I think it was early spring of 2019; She “flew down” (read was dropped or tossed down when she struggled at being held) while being handled unsupervised by a 5 and (then) 7 year old pair of kids, breaking/damaging her leg. Not my coop, or my chickens! After I took her in, we did about a month of daily therapy to get her walking again, involving a Chicken sling and lots of supported walking. I also treated her for all the nasty parasites the farm chickens had aggressively. We also had a small egg binding/ thin shelled crushed inside egg issue that was touch and go, just as she was doing better from the leg injury. She made an almost full recovery, but walks with a bit of a limp.

And here’s a nice clip of all my rehab girls getting treats last summer: Hoppy, Croppy, Mrs B, and Missy, with my beautiful Leghorn x CCLegbar Rooster Sammy.

Missy was taken by an barred owl (now also deceased, with prejudice) this winter, I just lost Mrs B (bumblefoot and a prolapse) to reproductive/prolapse issues a few weeks ago. Hoppy and one other “old coop” survivor that lives with Bob are now the oldest chickens on the farm, I *think* she was born in 2016 or 2017. All my other rescues were purchased summer of 2018.

Thanks for the videos @Kris5902 . I have seen Sammy in a while. He's as gorgeous as I remember.

 

[RoyalChick]

I totally didn’t catch this typo at first

it’s “Hoppy” not Hobby... and thanks for all the well wishes! She is doing better, I don’t know if we will ever make it back to 100% chickening and free ranging, but she is tentatively walking around inside my laundry basket now, so things are looking up! As to the significance of her name... she Hops

Her story, for anyone who doesn’t know it, is that she is one of my “farm coop” rescues and a rehab girl. I think it was early spring of 2019; She “flew down” (read was dropped or tossed down when she struggled at being held) while being handled unsupervised by a 5 and (then) 7 year old pair of kids, breaking/damaging her leg. Not my coop, or my chickens! After I took her in, we did about a month of daily therapy to get her walking again, involving a Chicken sling and lots of supported walking. I also treated her for all the nasty parasites the farm chickens had aggressively. We also had a small egg binding/ thin shelled crushed inside egg issue that was touch and go, just as she was doing better from the leg injury. She made an almost full recovery, but walks with a bit of a limp.

And here’s a nice clip of all my rehab girls getting treats last summer: Hoppy, Croppy, Mrs B, and Missy, with my beautiful Leghorn x CCLegbar Rooster Sammy.

Missy was taken by an barred owl (now also deceased, with prejudice) this winter, I just lost Mrs B (bumblefoot and a prolapse) to reproductive/prolapse issues a few weeks ago. Hoppy and one other “old coop” survivor that lives with Bob are now the oldest chickens on the farm, I *think* she was born in 2016 or 2017. All my other rescues were purchased summer of 2018.

Love seeing them all come running!

 

[Ali James]

Yesterday we built the girls a new climbing frame from an old pallet and some branches donated by our neighbour who asked if the girls would like them.

They have shown a lot of interest and enjoy the high perch

 

[BY Bob]

Love seeing them all come running!

Its like yours running home from work! I love those videos of them crossing the yard.