Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Cynthia12]

Here's a photo I screen shot of my soft egg. It was actually laid this fall. One of her first eggs. We call it it...a fart egg.

 

[Cynthia12]

I love the carpet idea. I may do that now. You have intrigued. Any issues with bugs in the carpet?

No! I was worried about that too.

 

[BY Bob]

And Again

Tonight's roosting...

Yes, that is Lilly in the nestbox again.

I think I have this figured out. I may know why Lilly is sleeping in the nest box.

The wind is howling from the northwest. It has been for 2 days now. It blew my wheelbarrow over and whipped my shed doors open. My vinyl perimeter fence is flexing almost 6 inches as the wind pushes against it.

The corner of the coop with the high roost is the northwest. Right where the wind hits the coop. The nestbox is the opposite side of the coop. I think she is just avoiding the wind hitting that corner of the coop.

When the wind let's up tomorrow I bet she is back on the high roost.

 

[BY Bob]

No! I was worried about that too.

Very good! Thanks for the idea!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

That egg looks soft. Is she one to have just started laying again? Sometimes they just throw an odd shape, or soft shelled like this one, for unknown reasons. No cause for concern unless it keeps happening. Throw a bit of oyster shell in for them to free feed. Sometimes it's lack of calcium for soft shells. I had one last spring. Oh, and it doesn't look like it's been eaten!

This is their first egg-laying season, started in January. There's been a few thin rubbery-shell eggs. With this egg, most of it was soft shell and part of it firm, uneven, though I didn't stay and test it all over, the weather here was ridiculous wind today, with lake effect snow bands going through. Yes, I thought it had not been eaten either. That's good at least!
They do have free feed oyster shell they sort through; I could freshen it with a new layer.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I love the carpet idea. I may do that now. You have intrigued. Any issues with bugs in the carpet?

You could put a rubber sink mat down, that would be more washable.

 

[BY Bob]

You could put a rubber sink mat down, that would be more washable.

That would work too but I have carpet handy and would have to buy a rubber sink mat.

 

[micstrachan]

For Bob:

 

[micstrachan]

What happened to cause all of that!

I don’t know. It was when she was a pullet; now she has five! My thought was that she got caught in the wire. I had chicken wire around the run at the time. I didn’t know about hardware cloth back then.

 

[micstrachan]

That looks like fowl pox to me. And the back bit just lost its blood supply from being torn?

No… That was just a torn comb with blood all over the place!