Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

Sooooo beautiful!! Now those are some pretty chickens... Bob

This one is the prettiest

 

[Marie2020]

Hospital said, i'm doing everything right to my hand. no infection. and wanted to give me oxycodone i won't take!

Great news and even better you're laying off the drugs

 

[Marie2020]

I'm sorry Alex. Burns are really hard. They don't heal fast and they hurt like mad.

He can take it, he's braver than he's letting on. He just wants us ladies to fuss over him

 

[Marie2020]

I so wish I was there to use my goodies on that burn.

 

[Marie2020]

@BY Bob are you still here?

 

[Shadrach]

I beat the sun this morning but never thought of how difficult it is to get a roosting chook out of a prefab coop (they really aren’t designed well )
Got Belle out and got her weight then did the same with Snow because, why not I weighed myself with the towel, then me and each chook with the towel, then worked out their weights off that.
They won’t trust me for a bit I’m sure and the ruckus Snow made will have the neighbours questioning what I’m doing
Belle came in at 1.5kg and my big girl Snow is 2.4kg ()
Both crops felt empty, Belle’s roosting poop was firm but I could see longish grass sticking up. That could be the issue, eating the long whipper snippered grass off the lawn?
Getting her dose of worker ready based on the weight of her, trying it in some rice bubbles with some of my homemade sugar syrup.
Wish me luck, I’m hoping it was just her clearing that grass though.

You've got this. You don't need luck. If you take them off the roost regularly, they get used to it and don't fuss so much.

 

[Shadrach]

So sweet
You think she has remorse for never being a mumma?

I don't know. I'm told Marans tend to be broody later in life. I tell people she is a career hen, more interested in bossing the others about than being a mum.
She''s had a sit most days recently. If I believed she knows she has missed out in some way I would feel sad for her. Fact is, she's had a fantastic life by any any creatures standards.

 

[Shadrach]

Trackter supply coops are so much cheaper than what we can get in uk. Shame we don't have this here.

You're better off making your own.

 

[Lady Red]

Hi everyone. Happy Saturday. I’m happy to report 12 chickens with tails up and actively foraging. Minnie is in the nest box, but looked good earlier.

Excellent!

 

[Lady Red]

Finally! Grass has started growing and I rigged up a little area the Princesses could hang out in and destroy the new grass.
It isn’t yet very big and it doesn’t have shrubs to hide under, but they had fun and it allowed me to test out the temporary fencing I am planning on using when I plant the chicken garden. It seemed to work fine and I will do an outer electric one to keep the foxes away.
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Happy exploring going on there