Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[LozzyR]

River laid her first egg!!! Charlie and Lucy have also laid today!

I’m starting to think Tegan is gender-fluid.

 

[BY Bob]

Have no idea what they weight but all all 4 mine big gals have nora and ethel which are black rocks u jus seen i also have 2 cheshire blues mo and flo. Just to mix it up a bit i also obtained some eggs now have 4 3 week old chicks dads a silkie mums a serama or pekin never had bantums beforw on top of tht i have 40 japanese quail eggs in inc and 4 brahma eggs in other inc must be mad

Wow that's a lot going on! I know others who do quail. Have you ever raised them before?

 

[Sammi_0411]

Nope first time read up a lot though only planning on keeping 4 gals and a boy sell the rest xx have u?

 

[BY Bob]

Nope first time read up a lot though only planning on keeping 4 gals and a boy sell the rest xx have u?

I have never done it although I find it fascinating. The chicks are stupid fast. Let us know how it all goes.

 

[BY Bob]

Snack Time!

Hattie has been sleeping on the coop floor, right next to the coop camera. I though it might be cooler on the floor.

Tonight, 1 hour after she went to bed, I logged on the camera to check the roosting situation with the littles and I caught her. Red beaked! Now I know why she is sleeping on the coop floor.

I left food and water in the coop for the Littles. I see that Hattie would like the food to remain. How hungry can she be 1 hour after bedtime!

 

[RoyalChick]

Heat makes their poop runny.

I did not know that and I can’t say I noticed that in the Palace. It will heat up again next week so I will observe closely.

 

[RoyalChick]

You are right in a way. They drink the extra water to cool down. The extra water creates diarrhea which helps to pull heat out of them. This results in messy bums.

Hmmm. I was already worrying that the Princesses aren’t drinking enough. And now I am worrying that their poop isn’t runny. Honestly these Princesses just have me worrying all the time!

 

[RoyalChick]

Me too

Galvanized items if ingested can cause Zinc toxicity. They are fine if not ingested. But remember chickens explore things with their beaks so might peck at something and ingest it.
normally it comes from ‘hardware disease’ - bits of wire or nails left lying around.

 

[LozzyR]

Our back yard today.

 

[LozzyR]

So the girls are having a sleepover in the garage tonight. It’s been blowing a gale all day and bucketed down pretty much all day too. Their bedding is all wet again as they’ve soaked it, plus water has got into the pre-fabs because they’re, you know, cheap. So I broke out the dog crates, put Teff hay in there, dusted them down and put them in the garage (which is dry and wind-proof). I went and got the girls one by one (they were saturated!) I toweled them all down as best I could (I couldn’t access a powerpoint to blow-dry them), popped Lucy and Charlie in thè smaller crate and the Faverolles in the bigger one. I gave them some food and said goodnight to them. I don’t want them catching pneumonia!