Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

1 Pound of Platina
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Keep going girl! You can make it!

 

[BY Bob]

You're adorable, Bob. It was the traveling without care that did the last batch in. That didn’t happen this time. They will be fine! I know you have everything they need on hand, including Corid, or I bet they are on medicated feed. I know you will have their temperature right. I know you will have marbles in their water. I know you will watch for pasty butt. And I know they will love you and you will have your lap chickens.

Thanks @micstrachan I think I need to raise the heat plate for them. I might have it too warm for them as they are a week old. Legertha was sleeping mostly out from under the heat plate today when I went in to check on them this morning.

 

[featherhead007]

Thanks @micstrachan I think I need to raise the heat plate for them. I might have it too warm for them as they are a week old. Legertha was sleeping mostly out from under the heat plate today when I went in to check on them this morning.

More pics please Bob

 

[RoyalChick]

I feel like I've never seen her baby photos. How adorable!

That is true of all the older Princesses - I joined this group when I lost Scary to a fox and they were already laying by then. My avatar is an adolescent Diana but otherwise I don't think I have shared their baby pics (a rich source of chicken tax pictures!).
I don't have any of them as little chicks because they were a school project and I adopted them once they were already fully feathered but well before they were laying.

 

[RoyalChick]

Thanks @micstrachan I think I need to raise the heat plate for them. I might have it too warm for them as they are a week old. Legertha was sleeping mostly out from under the heat plate today when I went in to check on them this morning.

One trick on the heat plate is to set it at an angle - front legs high back legs low. That way they can decide how close they want to be and you don't need to adjust it every day as they grow. I found the Roadrunners would pop into the high end and stand on tippy toe to warm up now and then during the day - but would then snuggle down at the low end when it was cold at night.

 

[RoyalChick]

More pics please Bob

 

[BY Bob]

That's because you are a kind and empathetic person.

I hope you sleep well tonight in spite of understandable anxiety.
Time to break out the lavender oil and the sound of the ocean hmmm?

Lavender oil works so well. They are in my office so I will be with them all day today monitoring everything they do. I don't know if that is good or not.

 

[featherhead007]

No Pressure

 

[BY Bob]

That is true of all the older Princesses - I joined this group when I lost Scary to a fox and they were already laying by then. My avatar is an adolescent Diana but otherwise I don't think I have shared their baby pics (a rich source of chicken tax pictures!).
I don't have any of them as little chicks because they were a school project and I adopted them once they were already fully feathered but well before they were laying.

They will be excellent choices for chicken tax. I look forward to seeing them.

 

[BY Bob]

I'm working on it.