Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Lady Red]

I am so glad! Get some good rest, Ruby...we want you in your best possible form

 

[Lady Red]

Yes, Creamsicle is a rooster. Today I found patches of rooster red coming in. I'll probably keep him as long as I can because he's going to look so pretty and unique, but I'll need to find a new home for him. I'm also tempted of letting Cinnabar go with him. They are so close that it would be a crime to separate them. Oh what to do ...

The guy I got my birds from is doing another hatch due next week. Perhaps I could get more then. But what would integration be like for roughly day olds and a four month old if I do keep Cinnabar?

From here on out, no more names until I know for sure they are hens. I might even have to cut down how much I love them until I know. I need to be strong enough to return them.

It is near impossible to not name them after you've fallen in love

 

[Lady Red]

I have the leek discussion with my ladies quite often. Cooking them is where we have settled out.

I'm learning! they ate chicken today

 

[Lady Red]

I can see that. Leeks are an acquired taste.

Talk to me after you've had my potato leek soup!

 

[Lady Red]

Cillin has taken to coming round for a visit at least once a day since he moved into his own coop. He doesn't seem to be after treats. If I'm sitting at the computer or at the kitchen table ne settles down right by my legs and sort of dozes for a while.
He's getting to mate with most of the hens at some point or another and I often see him with a small group as I check on every bodies whereabouts during the day.
Treacle still chases him away if he finds him with a group of hens but recently I've seen Treacle not bother if Cillin is away from the main tribe with just one hen.
Cillin seems happy enough with his coop. He goes to roost about the same time as the rest. He even escorts the hens to the tribe coop before going to roost in his if there are nay straggles.

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I learn so much from reading here. Giving Cillin his own coop wouldn't have been on my radar.
So glad you've found a solution

 

[Lady Red]

Looks good enough for me to eat! Cock a doodle do! I didn’t fool you, did I?

My babies (feathery and otherwise) are well appointed. If you think the seed block looks good, you should smell the chick cake they have!! It is like a honey dessert.

 

[Shadrach]

Tribe 1 exiting my coop after a successful raid. Fat Bird making sure they haven't left anything edible behind.

 

[drstratton]

Tribe 1 exiting my coop after a successful raid. Fat Bird making sure they haven't left anything edible behind.
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My goodness, so funny! How is she doing Shad?

 

[micstrachan]

I would definitely be interested. Thank you Bob! I believe my son is buy a microscope, so I can borrow his. I just won't tell him it's for looking at chicken poop...

I’m excited. We can share poop slides on this thread! My friend @Hen Pen Jem also does her own fecal floats. She shared her info with me, but I accidentally deleted the email and need to resend her my email address.

The pullets are all too pale in the comb for my liking. They are all laying, so shouldn’t they have big, fleshy combs like the older girls? I’d love to check their poop for coccidiosis and worms.

Ruby’s avian vet appointment was crazy expensive. I love her, but I can’t keep this up financially and she’s slowing down over time, even with treatment.

I got both Ruby and Dorothy started on antibiotics. Dorothy is still laying lots of eggs without shells and few eggs with shells. I fear all the calcium therapy has likely been pretty hard on her organs. Ester is also not laying and the back of her comb has been tinged blue on and off for a bit. Not my favorite, as that’s what Margo had two summers in a row and ended up with a septic infection from chronic egg yolk peritonitis.

But here is something AWESOME... despite being first to roost (only by a few minutes), Ruby was standing up and preening on the roost! Usually she’s tail tucked (like they all do when they sleep), heavy breathing and tail slightly pumping. She DEFINITELY feels better than before her avian vet visit.

Someday... someday.... I will have well-bred chickens who live full, healthy lives. In the meantime, I will continue to love a and enjoy my little rascals.

Thanks for letting me ramble!

 

[micstrachan]

Tribe 1 exiting my coop after a successful raid. Fat Bird making sure they haven't left anything edible behind.
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Happy birds! Who is that with the big ‘ol crop? Is that Mel?