Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

I hate having a head cold and fever (in the middle of the summer) I’m sure it’s the smoke and poor air quality here, but it sure doesn’t help me get motivation for the work I need to get done around here!

 

[featherhead007]

New hens are here, and I'll get pictures later for everyone. I'm really going to need Alex's input on these girls at least until I get a egg. I was told they are blue Marans, they are blue, but they have the most un Maran like body shape I've ever seen. I may have just inherited 6 blue large fowl cochins.

Need the pictures.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Ok, first off, the girls are a bit rough. Apparently some of the other chickens they were penned with bullied them and several are missing feathers on their head and necks. One girl is bald, you would think she's a naked neck. It's ok though, pin feathers are already coming in and I know with time and good food they will be beautiful again. Well, more beautiful then they already are. But, look at the body shape, and the heavily feathered squat legs, that does not scream Marans to me. They are just giving off a overall cochin vibe. They are supposedly laying really well at the moment, so we'll see when that first egg arrives. I don't know what color eggs cochins lay, but I do know my Marans eggs.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Some more pics of the new girls, I do know one thing, come Fluffy Butt Fridays these girls have some big booties to show off.

 

[Marie2020]

This describes what I'm going through right now perfectly. And yes compared to my sister and my dad now, I'm calling my case of covid mild. What gets me is the headache really didn't start until about a week after I tested positive.

I once knew someone who would get serious headaches when she ate cheese or chocolate, as for myself if I've had sinus pain usually through dust or pollen that's normally when I get headaches. Same said when I get muscle pain in my shoulders.

I have personally found that many different problems can cause head pain, not only what I have just written.

Apparently or so I have read is that covid has been around for many years and most of us have already had it, the same as colds and flu.

 

[featherhead007]

Some more pics of the new girls, I do know one thing, come Fluffy Butt Fridays these girls have some big booties to show off.
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Looks to me, that they have a dominant Cochin trait in their mix. Do more research and get more information. They sure are beautiful birds!

 

[Marie2020]

It's the hardest language in the world to learn to speak

Red as in the colour

Read, read
Lead, lead
Bow, bow, bough
Two, to, too
There, their, they're
Then all the words borrowed from other languages that may or may not be pronounced the same ast he original language....

...just as Chinese is the hardest to learn to write.

Right and write are pronounced the same plus whole and hole

I agree the English language is very confusing.

 

[Marie2020]

I've just found a brilliant thread, both a crock pot and hen was used as incubators too hatch baby chicks.

This girl is a marvel


https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/crockpot-slow-cooker-incubator-take-2.1485891/

This incredible lady using a crockpot just fascinated me. I only have a small crockpot I really must ask her if this could be a possibility as well

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Looks to me, that they have a dominant Cochin trait in their mix. Do more research and get more information. They sure are beautiful birds!

My sawdust guy kept calling them marans. I was not going to argue even though I'm skeptical after seeing what shape they are in. They are heavy girls. I did find out that they turn 2 around Thanksgiving. He said they picked them up from a feed store during a black friday sale. Now if I had been paying for these birds I might have questioned and even backed out but they were given to me. They are nervous at the moment but they want to be friendly. I have managed to bribe 2 to come eat a earthworm from my hand. And I did say one day I would like to have cochin pullet/hen in my flock. That day may have came sooner then later, and instead of 1, 6 is the magic number.

 

[featherhead007]

This incredible lady using a crockpot just fascinated me. I only have a small crockpot I really must ask her if this could be a possibility as well

If I was a chicken in a crockpot (of any size) I would be worried! Just saying.