Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

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I need to catch up and I hope both chickens and humans are all okay! Here's an interesting Monday Mug Shot! Great look at her neck. I think she was trying to look at something on my headband, or maybe she could tell I was in dire need of some hair grooming!

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Adorable! My Buckeyes both have those hilariously cute necks with the floppy skin showing, too.

 

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Gotta love turkeys too

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So cute!

 

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Monday Mug

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Yep. It’s Sydney who looks like my Bridge.

 

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and such a lovely Mug too. .
I wish I had a chicken or two with such beautiful dark eyes...❤

Aren’t they beautiful! They remind me of Australorp eyes!

 

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Can you believe that I built this whole coop from a broken down shack, and leftover construction materials? (People were just throwing the stuff out)
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Lucky you and your birds!

 

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Fudge's crop was empty again this morning and she tried to avoid me this morning when I went to take her off the roost bar. She must be feeling better.
Two others in Tribe 1 do have worms I suspect so I'll be worming them all this week.
Two more days of Flubenvet and coccivex for Fudge and her treatment is finished. I will probably continue the crop massage and yogurt for a few more days after.
Between Fudge and Mel I've had less time to keep up with the others.
I got hold of Cillin this afternoon. He's so good. He came all the way up the South bank when I called for him.
The Stckholm Hoof Tar has as usual done a good job on sealing his broken spur. It now needs reshaping. I took the ragged bits off when I intitially treated him but he now has a flat end.
Locks legs have improved and I got around to giving her legs a coat of coconut oil this evening. This is something I would like to do daily for all the chickens that are prone to Scaly Leg Mite. It's a big undertaking though. Just sorting Fudge out takes at least an hour each morning.
Tap has decided she's beinng left out of the moulting club and decided she would have a go. It's far too late in the year and she's been looking a bit cold and wretched.
Notch as cut his leg high up on his hock and left a worring trail of blood leading into the bamboo which I discovered.It's not serious but it needed attending to.

A while ago I put up a stocknet fence attatched to the post and rail fence at the back of the vegetable garden. There was a chicken wire fence attatched before that. No it didn't keep the chickens out but it did keep most of everything else out. The stocknet was a further improvement being a lot stronger.
Over the weekend those in the main house deceided to take the stocknet down. Apparently it didn't look very nice.
Last night the wild boar got into the vegetable garden and tore the place apart. What they didn't dig up, they flattened.
I smiled and walked away. Some people just do not learn. No, I won't be repairing the fence.

Dumba$$es! Oops... did I just say that?

Thanks for the update. I really need to tend to the scaly leg mites in my flock, too. Lucky has it the worst, and she’s finishing up molt. I didn’t want to handle hef during molt. She’s talking again and squatted for me twice thjs weekend, despite her chalky, pale comb and the fact that she dropped a wing feather during the squat. I like to use a half-half mix of bag balm and nustock.

 

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Fudge this evening at supper time. Fudge is on the left.
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Looking good, girl!

 

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More viva la Feitico.
It is unfortunate that the word witch is associated with harm these days.

¿Trabajador milagroso?

 

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Rat Update
The rats are not engaging with my trap in box. Color me surprised.

However..........

I now know where they live. They have run the groundhogs out from under my shed.

How do I know that you might ask? Observation.

I have cleared the garden of vegetables now that they have been frosted and have died. Once I do that I will allow the ladies in and I will turn it over with a shovel and allow them to worm hunt. They will smooth it back out for me. The other day the flock and I turned over the garden and left a fairly even but rough surface. We had a little rain and the rats did me a favor by packing down a pathway with their little feet drawing a line right to their warren under my shed.

Here is the rat superhighway.
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So today I staked it out. Here is visual proof.

Their dirty little secret is out. This is bad news for them because I am switching to a big bang approach. If I can pull it together tomorrow, I am going to dry ice their house and kill them all at one time, if I'm lucky.

That is a huge rat! It’s like a mini kangaroo!

 

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Gandolfing

Aurora was at it again tonight. This time Aurora was picking on Sansa.

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The end result, poor Sansa sleeping in a nest box.
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Poor Sansa. Buttercup Gandolfs, too. But eventually she has to go to bed and the others just wait it out.

You’ll appreciate this, Bob... Flash (Legbar pullet who decided it was time to roost with the big girls) has gotten wise to Buttercup and just makes sure to beat her to bed. Interestingly, ALL THREE PULLETS were in Butteecup’s spot tonight when I got home and Buttercup was in a different spot!