Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Shadrach]

I didn't get any pictures of Donk's nest. I forgot to take the camera when I cleared out the eggs.
Of course, Donk is still laying and she's got another site, probably where her daughter Knock is laying. It was just too hot to stand about outside waiting for one of them to go and lay. Donk did go into the coop tonight though. If I'm lucky the pair will wait to sit until Sunday which is when the weather people say the temperatures will be bearable.
Tackle has been in all day and a good part of it confined to the pet carrier. She's been very patient and tonight got into the nest box at dusk. She's had about two hours of the day out and about in my house. Thankfully there is a marked improvement in her walking tonight.
The problem with her limping so badly isn't so much any pain she may be in, it's she wasn't keeping up with the tribe. A limping hen on her own is hawk bait. She needs at least to be able to move from cover spot to cover spot and the past couple of days I haven't been here enough to watch out for her. Tomorrow should be better.
I gave her a dose of Metacam last night and another this morning which seems to have helped.
This was her last night.

This is her tonight.

 

[LozzyR]

We have some good cat people on here. I'm not surprised someone nailed her breed first time. Great job @LozzyR

I wouldn’t have known if we hadn’t had Baxter.

 

[MaryJanet]

Are you allowed roosters MJ?

Only if they don't disturb the neighbours which I've interpreted as a No.

 

[LozzyR]

I just woke up from the worst anxiety dream; I dreamed that Jasper kept trying to kill the chickens! He ripped a hole in the dog crate (?), then he kept getting out and attacking them, the pain meds I have had expired, it was a day Dr Nikki wasn’t working, it was getting late and had got dark, I was supposed to be going out to dinner with my family (and our house had become my parents house), I was extremely pleased to wake up and find it wasn’t real!

 

[MaryJanet]

The Grapes of Ned

This rooster loves to roost. No one has ever roosted in the grapevines before. View attachment 2298172View attachment 2298173
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I am thinking about entering this in the calender competition. Which of the 4 do you like better?

I like 1 & 4 best, but I love them all!

 

[Ribh]

I didn't get any pictures of Donk's nest. I forgot to take the camera when I cleared out the eggs.
Of course, Donk is still laying and she's got another site, probably where her daughter Knock is laying. It was just too hot to stand about outside waiting for one of them to go and lay. Donk did go into the coop tonight though. If I'm lucky the pair will wait to sit until Sunday which is when the weather people say the temperatures will be bearable.
Tackle has been in all day and a good part of it confined to the pet carrier. She's been very patient and tonight got into the nest box at dusk. She's had about two hours of the day out and about in my house. Thankfully there is a marked improvement in her walking tonight.
The problem with her limping so badly isn't so much any pain she may be in, it's she wasn't keeping up with the tribe. A limping hen on her own is hawk bait. She needs at least to be able to move from cover spot to cover spot and the past couple of days I haven't been here enough to watch out for her. Tomorrow should be better.
I gave her a dose of Metacam last night and another this morning which seems to have helped.
This was her last night.
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This is her tonight.
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She is a lucky hen. You are a good Bucket Boy!

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

I just woke up from the worst anxiety dream; I dreamed that Jasper kept trying to kill the chickens! He ripped a hole in the dog crate (?), then he kept getting out and attacking them, the pain meds I have had expired, it was a day Dr Nikki wasn’t working, it was getting late and had got dark, I was supposed to be going out to dinner with my family (and our house had become my parents house), I was extremely pleased to wake up and find it wasn’t real!

I'm so sorry! I hate dreams like that. I have the most vivid dreams, I can taste, smell, and feel in my dreams. I often wake up trying to figure out if it was a dream or real...

 

[Shadrach]

@BY Bob
This provides a link between Covid and the studies you mentioned a while back.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41...ted&code=ea12247a-80cc-48fd-9e4d-94d156f56d72

 

[BY Bob]

I didn't get any pictures of Donk's nest. I forgot to take the camera when I cleared out the eggs.
Of course, Donk is still laying and she's got another site, probably where her daughter Knock is laying. It was just too hot to stand about outside waiting for one of them to go and lay. Donk did go into the coop tonight though. If I'm lucky the pair will wait to sit until Sunday which is when the weather people say the temperatures will be bearable.
Tackle has been in all day and a good part of it confined to the pet carrier. She's been very patient and tonight got into the nest box at dusk. She's had about two hours of the day out and about in my house. Thankfully there is a marked improvement in her walking tonight.
The problem with her limping so badly isn't so much any pain she may be in, it's she wasn't keeping up with the tribe. A limping hen on her own is hawk bait. She needs at least to be able to move from cover spot to cover spot and the past couple of days I haven't been here enough to watch out for her. Tomorrow should be better.
I gave her a dose of Metacam last night and another this morning which seems to have helped.
This was her last night.
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This is her tonight.
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I'm glad that she is improving. She is way worse off than when Lilly hurt her leg. She sat around a lot but the flock stayed close to her and did not leave her alone.

 

[BY Bob]

Only if they don't disturb the neighbours which I've interpreted as a No.

They will disturb the neighbors.