Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[LozzyR]

Nothing comes to mind to have broken them, unless Penny was pecking at her (not sure if other hens can snap them off?)

I’m hoping she will be around for a lot longer too. I love Big Bad Bokky, her new pet name now that she’s rounding up the young whipper snappers
Penny wasn’t so lucky. Having no vet here that treats chickens I can only surmise it was EYP. I kept her comfortable for a few days in our laundry, giving her water with a syringe, crying all the while that I couldn’t make her well again, but in the end she didn’t even want that.
She had developed water belly I believe so once I felt I could do nothing more I popped her out in the nesting box so she could spend her last night with Bok. She passed overnight and I was so heartbroken

 

[micstrachan]

Out of interest how old is Buttercup here?
Snow, my light Sussex, is growing so much and I’m not sure how big they get as a breed. She’s matching Bok, the ISA, in size already but a lot of it is fluff I’m sure! So much beautiful fluff

Edited to correct Terrible spelling!

Thank you! Buttercup is about 3 1/2 years old there. However, she is a Light Brahma.

 

[LozzyR]

Bob, does Lilly’s comb stay bright red even though she has stopped laying? Or is it a bit more pale? In this photo it looks pretty red.

Lucy’s comb was red up to the end.

 

[Scrambles83]

Thank you! Buttercup is about 3 1/2 years old their. However, she is a Light Brahma.

Ahhh, all good then, my bad just saw the similar feather pattern

 

[Scrambles83]

Any electric current flowing along a wire produces an magnetic field. It's my belief that most other creatures can feel the magnetic field. The donkeys won't try to breach the electric fences here while they are on. As soon as there is no current flowing the seem to know and the walk through the fence dragging out the posts on their way.

Funny reading this now because I just watched this yesterday

 

[RoyalChick]

Funny reading this now because I just watched this yesterday

Indeed - I have noticed that the wildlife knows when the fence is on too and they don't come near.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Such a beautiful flock tribe! I love to see them getting along.

Yes, couldn't have asked for a better outcome with the integration! Queenie maneuvers well, knows her place, knows where everyone is and where she can step, where to avoid. I can see her judging it. Like today, it doesn't stop her from hanging in there and grabbing a bunch opf mealyworms real quick! She eats peacefully alongside everyone, and every now and then submits to a light or not-so-light peck (Hazel), or keeps herself very still, head down, when she gets a long stare from someone (that would be Butters). So far so good!

 

[micstrachan]

Ahhh, all good then, my bad just saw the similar feather pattern

I do have a Speckled Sussex, Millie. She’s also pretty big!

 

[drstratton]

Yes I was happy to see they had some sense of the danger.
In fact they were quite safe because it is all enclosed - they came in from one of the pasture runs - those don't have a solid roof, but they do have a hardware cloth roof.

That's good that it's all enclosed...our free range pen is mostly safe except for one area...but my flock learned the hard way that there is danger from up above!

 

[drstratton]

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I love this, so cute! Is there some Cream Legbar in the mix or another type of crested?