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Poor Xzit. Enjoy your cuddles with her.
Hope you are feeling a bit better!
Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock
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Hope you are feeling a bit better!
Out roaming this afternoon and "back at the ranch" so to speak, in the old unattached and still- covered run. Hazel and Queenie started dustbathing in the sunny warmth. Then the three others found them and quickly joined in. This is the second time they've come back to it to bathe, and it's sheltered and they rest and preen in there too.
I've tried to upload it to my youtube channel but not sure if it's there yet:
Maybe I won't clear out all that litter as I was planning, only some, as they like to dustbathe in it? Or should I change it out for health reasons? Or It's about six months old but mostly been dry (though on the bare ground) in the covered run, since the coop was attached for the winter. So its aged ramial chips, some hemp, pdz, wood stove ashes, lots of poo, some feed dust, grit & oyster shell bits. I periodically hoed it around to bury poo and keep it interesting. Part of it has become quite fine and dirt-like. Maybe it's called Deep Bedding since it's dry? I've read a bit but don't recall how often people change it out. I'd replace it with a big pile of new but aged ramial chips & everything else (but minus the poo til they visit again
)
I've tried to upload it to my youtube channel but not sure if it's there yet:
Maybe I won't clear out all that litter as I was planning, only some, as they like to dustbathe in it? Or should I change it out for health reasons? Or It's about six months old but mostly been dry (though on the bare ground) in the covered run, since the coop was attached for the winter. So its aged ramial chips, some hemp, pdz, wood stove ashes, lots of poo, some feed dust, grit & oyster shell bits. I periodically hoed it around to bury poo and keep it interesting. Part of it has become quite fine and dirt-like. Maybe it's called Deep Bedding since it's dry? I've read a bit but don't recall how often people change it out. I'd replace it with a big pile of new but aged ramial chips & everything else (but minus the poo til they visit again
)
Little Xzit is sleeping on my chest. I’m using voice control on my iPhone because my right hand is totally wrapped up
I think you marked the video private in YouTube - you need to mark it 'unlisted' (I think that is what it is called) and that means anyone with the link can view it but not anyone just roaming around YouTube.Out roaming this afternoon and "back at the ranch" so to speak, in the old unattached and still- covered run. Hazel and Queenie started dustbathing in the sunny warmth. Then the three others found them and quickly joined in. This is the second time they've come back to it to bathe, and it's sheltered and they rest and preen in there too.
I've tried to upload it to my youtube channel but not sure if it's there yet:
Maybe I won't clear out all that litter as I was planning, only some, as they like to dustbathe in it? Or should I change it out for health reasons? Or It's about six months old but mostly been dry (though on the bare ground) in the covered run, since the coop was attached for the winter. So its aged ramial chips, some hemp, pdz, wood stove ashes, lots of poo, some feed dust, grit & oyster shell bits. I periodically hoed it around to bury poo and keep it interesting. Part of it has become quite fine and dirt-like. Maybe it's called Deep Bedding since it's dry? I've read a bit but don't recall how often people change it out. I'd replace it with a big pile of new but aged ramial chips & everything else (but minus the poo til they visit again
On your clean-out question I have similar but mine is based on leaves - I don't really clean it out but add stuff on top - though this year I will steal a load for fertilizer as it is mainly over a year aged.
Mine have a favorite dust bathing spot and I rake it out now and then but mainly because they dig down and find big rocks and that looks uncomfortable to me!
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Flockservations
Yes I know but tribeservations doesn't have the same ring to it.
Sansa
She is just mean to Sydney and Phyllis. I watched her go after Phyllis for 5 minutes last night. Even after Phyllis submitted she continued to peck her. I actually called her name to get her to stop. She has done the same thing to Sydney recently. It seems quite excessive right now but I can't figure out what may have triggered it.
Despite this, she is absolutely endearing towards me. She comes and stands right next to me when I am on the patio furniture. Allows me to pet her. Plays the walnut game by pecking my pants pocket. Squats for me whenever I get near her. Grooms right next to me. Everything but hopping into my lap. I would say if anyone was going to be a lap chicken, Sansa would be the one.
Aurora
Aurora has also been quite peckish recently. I'm not sure why but actually the whole tribe is a little "pecky" right now. Aurora likes corn but she won't stuff herself on it like Hattie and Sydney will. What she has been doing is kind of wild.
When she is eating corn from my hand she eats like a sewing machine. She also let's no other hen eat from my hand except those above her and Phyllis (more on this later). Once she is done, Sydney and Sansa will come by for a hand full.
What Aurora has started to do is very interesting. When she is done eating, she spills the remainder of the corn on my hand onto the ground. Phyllis loves this as she will then eat it off the ground. Then Aurora will walk away and Sydney and Sansa will approach. I scoop out a handful of corn for them and they start to eat.
Just as they are starting to eat, Aurora will show back up and force them away from the hand. She does not do this to eat but rather to spill the corn in my hand onto the ground and then walk away! It's like she is telling them they are not good enough to eat from my hand; they should eat off the ground! She will do this once or twice and then let them go ahead and eat from my hand. Very strange.
Not since Maleficent was here has Aurora been in my lap. When Mal was here every couple of days they would roost in my lap. Well the other day her love of food and need to be first overcame her fear of me and she climbed into my lap to get some walnut pieces. Here she is standing in my lap. I was so shocked I almost did not get a picture.
This post is quite long. I think I will save the rest and post some more flockservations tomorrow.
Yes I know but tribeservations doesn't have the same ring to it.
Sansa
She is just mean to Sydney and Phyllis. I watched her go after Phyllis for 5 minutes last night. Even after Phyllis submitted she continued to peck her. I actually called her name to get her to stop. She has done the same thing to Sydney recently. It seems quite excessive right now but I can't figure out what may have triggered it.
Despite this, she is absolutely endearing towards me. She comes and stands right next to me when I am on the patio furniture. Allows me to pet her. Plays the walnut game by pecking my pants pocket. Squats for me whenever I get near her. Grooms right next to me. Everything but hopping into my lap. I would say if anyone was going to be a lap chicken, Sansa would be the one.
Aurora
Aurora has also been quite peckish recently. I'm not sure why but actually the whole tribe is a little "pecky" right now. Aurora likes corn but she won't stuff herself on it like Hattie and Sydney will. What she has been doing is kind of wild.
When she is eating corn from my hand she eats like a sewing machine. She also let's no other hen eat from my hand except those above her and Phyllis (more on this later). Once she is done, Sydney and Sansa will come by for a hand full.
What Aurora has started to do is very interesting. When she is done eating, she spills the remainder of the corn on my hand onto the ground. Phyllis loves this as she will then eat it off the ground. Then Aurora will walk away and Sydney and Sansa will approach. I scoop out a handful of corn for them and they start to eat.
Just as they are starting to eat, Aurora will show back up and force them away from the hand. She does not do this to eat but rather to spill the corn in my hand onto the ground and then walk away! It's like she is telling them they are not good enough to eat from my hand; they should eat off the ground! She will do this once or twice and then let them go ahead and eat from my hand. Very strange.
Not since Maleficent was here has Aurora been in my lap. When Mal was here every couple of days they would roost in my lap. Well the other day her love of food and need to be first overcame her fear of me and she climbed into my lap to get some walnut pieces. Here she is standing in my lap. I was so shocked I almost did not get a picture.
This post is quite long. I think I will save the rest and post some more flockservations tomorrow.
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Well you nailed it. Well done.Thank you for giving me the platform to share it
I am just so pleased you guys like it too.
It’s always hard when you write about something that’s close to your heart because it will always give you the emotion you are feeling, but it might not do the same for others that read it.
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Do you have a plan as to how to help her?
Another shirt for Bob! 
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I never clean out the run. I throw in straw and twice a year I turn it over for them. They make deep pits and dustbath in it. They seem well.Out roaming this afternoon and "back at the ranch" so to speak, in the old unattached and still- covered run. Hazel and Queenie started dustbathing in the sunny warmth. Then the three others found them and quickly joined in. This is the second time they've come back to it to bathe, and it's sheltered and they rest and preen in there too.
I've tried to upload it to my youtube channel but not sure if it's there yet:
Maybe I won't clear out all that litter as I was planning, only some, as they like to dustbathe in it? Or should I change it out for health reasons? Or It's about six months old but mostly been dry (though on the bare ground) in the covered run, since the coop was attached for the winter. So its aged ramial chips, some hemp, pdz, wood stove ashes, lots of poo, some feed dust, grit & oyster shell bits. I periodically hoed it around to bury poo and keep it interesting. Part of it has become quite fine and dirt-like. Maybe it's called Deep Bedding since it's dry? I've read a bit but don't recall how often people change it out. I'd replace it with a big pile of new but aged ramial chips & everything else (but minus the poo til they visit again
You do need to change the video to "unlisted" from "private" so we can all see it.
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I want one! Awesome.
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