Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Scrambles83]

Monday mug (and happy 4th of July to you guys over there)

 

[RoyalChick]

The truth is even stranger
I have mentioned that both Elizabeth and Diana have been having shell issues. Diana had an egg break inside her and has been laying eggs with very thin shells.
Elizabeth meanwhile I thought was laying eggs with no shells based on smears of yolk left in the nest box.
The truth seems to be however that her eggs do have a thin shell and this is what she is doing.

She isn't doing that to anyone else's eggs so I assume it broke in the nest.
I am trying calcium supplements but they don't seem to be making much of a difference.

 

[RoyalChick]

Monday mug (and happy 4th of July to you guys over there)
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Great picture!!

 

[LozzyR]

Some time ago after an operation I was lying stretched out on a reclining chair and Big Boy was on my legs, just purring away. I could feel the purr resonating through me, maybe because he was close to my bones. I paid attention to it, and it felt very healing. Then I had an idea of a blanket of purring cats all around and on you, and how great that would be!

A purring cat on your chest is good for depression too; it releases oxytocin which is a feel-good chemical.

 

[LozzyR]

I don’t want to worry any of you, but I have been down and out lately. Much stress, has caused my (Usually high) blood pressure to spike to 198 over 99. It’s been tough on me. That is the reason for my insomnia. I’m going to the doctor today (I won’t be driving) medical transport is picking me up.
chicken tax
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I’m catching up Alex, but here’s a hug.

 

[BY Bob]

Happy 4th of July everyone. Learned something last night, my chickens do not handle fireworks well. I was watching tv about 10:30 and had my window ac on so I heard nothing but my dad ran in my room and said we had to go out and see what was after the chickens. As soon as I leave my bedroom I hear them, every single one was going off like they were being killed. Grab a flashlight and flip on barn lights and head out to find only 2 are still on their roosts and they were LOUD. Didn't see anything so looking up at the hill for something with a flashlight when one of my neighbors comes running into my yard saying "I'm sorry, I'm sorry". Once we got to a spot where I could hear him over the commotion it turns out he'd bought a few cheap fireworks for his daughter and they had shot off 2. Were not supposed to be loud, but apparently the noise and the lights "set the henhouse" off as he joked. He told me they had a few more but were not shooting them off. I told him since I knew something was not after them I could stay outside with the chickens if they wanted to finish but he said they would shoot them off at his mom's tonight. He then helped me get everyone back up on their roosts. Everyone may need to pray for me tonight, I have 3 other neighbors, one who is a jerk, planning on shooting off fireworks. The jerk neighbor gets the big ones, ones that really should not be shot off in a neighborhood, and ones that really should not be set off here as there is a dry hillside on each side of us. Last year he shot them off for almost 2 hours, and in which it took me and mom both sitting outside keeping the horses calm. Russ was fine, Dirt got a little worked up, but Louis was ready to break out of his stall. We ended up having to tie him up and when it was over he was a quivering sweating wreck. That was one time it was absolutely not safe to just be in there with him with a lead rope attached as he would try to run over you trying to find a way out. Talked to my vet already, he's on standby to swing by this evening if Louis starts freaking out to give a shot of sedative if need be. Which may help, but he also warned since Louis reacted so bad last year his adrenaline may counteract it and make it useless.

O gosh! I hope everything is OK tonight. Poor ladies. That sounds like a terrible mess.

Mine do not react like that.

 

[BY Bob]

I really wish Beetov-Hen would get some help with her “drinking problem “
Is there a DrPepper’s anonymous near me? , and if so, do they council head strong hens?

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I feel like their might be a human enabler involved as well.

 

[featherhead007]

I feel like their might be a human enabler involved as well.

She’s very persuasive!

 

[BY Bob]

I'm not going to write much about this just yet, but I may be posting lots of chicken pictures again.
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O my gosh! Could it possibly be true!

 

[BY Bob]

Hey friends! Guess what?! My photo of Buttercup won the “Best Hen” Category in the Best of Clucks Photo Contest! Her photo can be seen in the September/October Issue of the Chickens Magazine!

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That is amazing! Congratulations! That is so cool!