Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

I have just checked my required bills for this next month. $$$ Looks like I will have to wait till March to get the chicks I wanted.
House payment, car, and airplane registration and maintenance fees. plus other costs, is gonna strap me until March. So.... sorry, but no new chick pics until then.

 

[featherhead007]

Chicken tax:

 

[Marie2020]

Limping.

A change in their legs and feet. There's a lot of natural ways to deal with bumble foot mines ankle was swollen to

 

[RoyalChick]

Tegan did this the other day! I’ve never seen anyone do this either until then. There were things floating on top of the water, I wondered if she was pecking at those.

Mine do that when I crack the ice on their open water bowl in the run. I have a metal spike and I crack the ice and it splinters and the silly girls peck the ice fragments out of the bowl.

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

You may remember I was concerned about Mag. He has had his comb going purple at roost time and it's been pale and unhealthy looking during the day.
I don't believe it was something he ate. It's gone on way too long for that. A heart problem of some type was favourite.
I gave him one quarter of an asprin daily for seven days hoping to thin the blood if there was a blockage somewhere.
Over the past couple of days, something has changed. This is Mag. His comb looks almost normal now.
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He's at the back. Not much difference between Mags comb and Punch's comb now.
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This needs extra hearts!!! ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤

 

[Ribh]

I don’t know that a video is possible, but I will take as many pictures as I can. When I have to do something like this I usually get so focused on what’s happening and am using both my hands so I’m not able to get much. I have already discussed with Andrew that I will be needing his help to restrain Roostie for it. I don’t want him moving around. DH doesn’t do well with these things. Mostly because of his own medical history. Current thoughts are vet wrapping his wings to his body chicken burrito style. Wrapping him well, and as for stopping the kicking? I’m not sure how we will accomplish that. I plan on using the extra hands to support and hold Roostie. Plus he sucks, with my phone camera.

I'm interested & have been following along with both yours & Shad's progress but I'm pretty squeamish & don't think I can do pictures or a vid.

 

[Ribh]

Why? Why would someone steal a person’s chickens... they were nice birds from the looks of it, but a mixed flock and nothing too expensive. I just can’t wrap my head around this... unless the Urban Farmer has really pissed off his neighbors, or something. I mean let’s all be honest, we know buying eggs at the store is much cheaper than keeping your own chickens if you don’t care about the animals welfare at all. And those weren’t exactly “eating” chickens either.

It's been happening here too. Covid is making some people do weird stuff & the covid chicken craze has created a chicken shortage. Where I got my last lot of birds had had several attempts on her flock & she's raising Vorwerks that are still quite rare out here. She was not a happy bunny.

 

[Cynthia12]

I have never seen anything like those before. Do they have a name?

Not sure? Just came across it from a friend. Wonder if google knows.

 

[Shadrach]

The situation between Cillin and his son Treacle isn't getting any better.
I've been watching with interest which hens are prepared to spend their time with Cillin. Yesterday Mel came around in the morning before I had changed Cillin's foot pad. Mel laid an egg in the yellow maternity unit and came back into the house. Cillin had not ventured outside by then. The two of them went up to the sheep field together and there they both stayed for the rest of the morning and early afternoon. Eventually Mel made her way down to join the rest. I didn't see her do it so I don't know what the circumstances were.
This morning Fudge came to lay an egg. Treacle escorted her most of the way and Fudge found Cillin in the house. Cillin did the nest box guard duty as Fudge laid her egg. I expected Fudge to return to the tribe and Treacle. She didn't. She spent at least three hours with Cillin in the house and only returned to the tribe when I threw Cillin out so he could get a bit of exercise.
None of the other hens have made a point of staying with Cillin. A thought struck me; both Mel and Fudge have had chicks with Cillin. None of the others have. Tackle does mostly follow her mother Fudge and isn't a fan of Treacle in general.
Anyway, Cillin and Fudge.

 

[WhoDatChick]

So cool. It looks like a topographic map of an alien planet.

It does look like something from outer space!