Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[CrazyChookChookLady]

Ouchy

Is that Ned in the background?

Yes it is!!

He brought everyone up for a snack.

 

[featherhead007]

Yes it is!!

He brought everyone up for a snack.

He sure turned out to be one beautiful rooster (Ned)!

 

[BY Bob]

Yay internet connection! Got my second Covid shot today and am hanging out at my mothers for a bit so… I need to catch up on some chicken tax pics!View attachment 2723076View attachment 2723077
Mom teaching the first 4 layer chicks where the humans roost…

So cute! Congrats on the vaccine!

 

[BY Bob]

Some close ups of my bling girl’s eyes and don’t tell DH I posted him with our “baby” goat!

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I can't let Mrs BY Bob see the lap goat! This is a bad idea.

 

[BY Bob]

And 3 of the 5 newest hatched babies! My big bitey pancake of doom’s chicks. Two are showing daddy’s Barnvelder genes a little bit the other is pure Grandpa Chickie Hawk, with heavily feathered legs and what looks like the beginnings of cheek muffs already!View attachment 2723095View attachment 2723097

so some good May come from this move for my mom, if nothing else she has a stable internet connection!

They are adorable.

 

[BY Bob]

Chicken tax, SHRA and other. Popcorn! Her fluffy butt, early for Friday, as she's foraging this evening. View attachment 2723128

Spotlight of sun on her fluff! I couldn't get closer...
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Glint on certain hackles feathers is interesting.
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In other news Hazel is/was doing some kind of small molt. The last several days there've been fluff feathers, and some two-feather feathers - a long fluff and a small less fluffy one seemingly on the same shaft, and one big contour feather lying about. She looked a little scraggly and her thigh area shape doesn't look the same. Might account for her grumpiness.

Interestingly, Peanut got on Hazel's case and pursued and pecked her on the neck recently. Hazel went running.

I checked Butters' neck and she's got about an inch of nice new feathers out of the pins and coming in under the hackles! She squatted and let me stroke her yesterday.

Beautiful lady.

 

[BY Bob]

Is the pdf visible?
I have the amprolium Corid 20% Soluble Powder, so the liquid instructions don't work. I kept this chart from the manufacturer back when everyone was chicks, figuring I would go by the "Water Tank Mixing" ratio of 1/3 tsp to 1 gallon of water. Since doing 1/3 tsp is hard and I don't have a grams or ounce scale (I should get one, what kind is good?) I would make 3 gallons and do 1 level teaspoon (prevention), throwing out the old mixed water after a couple of days and making it fresh again. Does this jive with your current information?

This was with non-medicated chick starter supplemented with protein every day and a little later non-medicated high-protein game bird feed.

I have the powdered doses too. I can put them up for you tomorrow.

 

[BY Bob]

This is very cool. Good job! I see tongue action with both slo-mo bites of Sansa but the first one is best. With Phyllis, her top mop actually makes a good shield guarding the food, blocking the view of it from other chickens, delaying their strike, see how Hattie has to wait! I hadn't considered that. So there's one advantage of those feathers beyond just beauty. (Oops I shouldn't say "just beauty" to such a top model! )

She uses her mop top to great effect blocking others from food. It works real well until Sansa shows up. She doesn't worry about Phylis' mop top. No way it is blocking Sansa. She just pecks Phyllis hard on the head so she gets out of the way and then eats the food.

What can you say, it works.

 

[BY Bob]

I am finally caught up!!

My view while resting my foot after work...
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Hi Ned. It's me, Mum!

 

[BY Bob]

Here's my TSC rooster!! Rich picked it up for me the other day!! View attachment 2723231

Marvelous! That is super!