Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

Night everyone . I have to be up to get my babies off their perches in the morning. It's all new to them so want to be there before they wake.

 

[featherhead007]

Night everyone . I have to be up to get my babies off their perches in the morning. It's all new to them so
want to be there before they wake.

 

[BY Bob]

Meanwhile, I don't know whether I should be worrying. I have only had two Roadrunner eggs in all of October (September I got 20 Roadrunner eggs). So effectively the Roadrunners have stopped laying.
Minnie does have watery poo (well today at least she does) but otherwise both seem fine other than the molting.
When should I worry?

I'm not sure, how many do the lay a year? What did they lay last October?

I have gotten 0 eggs from Hattie and Sansa in October. 1 or 2 from Sydney. Aurora was laying 5 a week until this week and she has just stopped cold. Phyllis laid 4 in the first week and she has apparently also stopped. I think that Lilly last laid in early Sept but she doesn't count.

This is when laying slows down around here every year. I actually have not even thought about it until your post. I guess our back log of eggs is gone as well. Mrs BY Bob just told me at lunch she was going to have to acquire some.

 

[BY Bob]

Night everyone . I have to be up to get my babies off their perches in the morning. It's all new to them so
want to be there before they wake.

You are a good chickeneer. Sleep well.

 

[featherhead007]

I'm not sure, how many do the lay a year? What did they lay last October?

I have gotten 0 eggs from Hattie and Sansa in October. 1 or 2 from Sydney. Aurora was laying 5 a week until this week and she has just stopped cold. Phyllis laid 4 in the first week and she has apparently also stopped. I think that Lilly last laid in early Sept but she doesn't count.

This is when laying slows down around here every year. I actually have not even thought about it until your post. I guess our back log of eggs is gone as well. Mrs BY Bob just told me at lunch she was going to have to acquire some.

But, why is it, ( that after over a year ) Beethov-Hen has started laying again recently?

 

[BY Bob]

That makes me feel slightly less worried about the Roadrunners. Maybe that is just how they cope with shorter days.

It is. As I said in my other response, I really didn't notice that laying had fallen off so far because it happens every year.

 

[BY Bob]

I started proper work on the existing run today. I'm sure I used to be able to do this stuff in half the time.
I got lots of help from the chickens.
It was dark when I finished covering the mesh.
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I say that everytime I undertake a project these days.

 

[BY Bob]

But, why is it, ( that after over a year ) Beethov-Hen has started laying again recently?

That is news to me. I don't know.

 

[featherhead007]

Flockservations

From yesterday's free range session by the Phyllistines.

Only two of the larger girls paid any attention to the new ladies, Phyllis and Sansa. If she came around them through the course of grazing, Phyllis would remind them of their place. Mostly they knew where she was and stayed out of range.

Sansa hunted them several times. Sneaking up on them the way Lilly used to do it to Aurora and Maleficent. She would try to ambush them and separate them from each other. Once she succeeded and had one in the big run and one outside the big run. They could be next to each other but the fence was in between. These are things that used to give the iron beak pleasure so I'm not surprised that he protégé is using smile tactics.

The Protégé
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No one else paid the Phyllistines any mind. In fact several times Hattie and Aurora walked by them like they weren't even there.

Phyllistines. I still laugh when I read that name!

 

[featherhead007]

That is news to me. I don't know.

I’m glad she is laying, and is healthy!