Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[MaryJanet]

Yes - I realized this a bit late - I now keep a calendar in the Chicken Palace and mark eggs each day including who I think laid them and what condition they are in (relevant to the broken ones Elizabeth was laying).
Your math makes sense and tomorrow I can go to the calendar and count 'since records began' (earlier this year). I know there was a time when I was getting 2 Roadrunner eggs a day - so they may have hit their quota for the year.
Thank you for helping me out with this!
On Minnie's diarrhea - does wait and see feel OK for a few days at least?

It makes sense to me.

 

[RoyalChick]

That moniker is taken.

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I never tire of seeing pictures of her big floppy comb!

 

[MaryJanet]

There is a big difference between targeted advertising and an e-mail about caring for furry animals. It sounds like the email might have been from a BYC moderator perhaps?

Might've been.

From my reading, it also might've been an ad posing as an email.

I wonder whose address it came from.

 

[MaryJanet]

I don't know if I should out myself as a total egg nerd, but I actually have an app for tracking my flock's egg laying.
It makes it really easy to keep track of how much everyone is laying (assuming that one can recognize whose egg is whose).

I kept a spreadsheet for a while, but I found pencil and paper more convenient.

 

[RoyalChick]

That makes perfect sense to me.

Yes, me too. All my cats are rescues and I have had some bad situations including suspected rabies - so plenty of heartache - but I look at my spoiled kitty cats and remember how their lives were and it gives me inner content.
I haven't found anywhere to adopt hens near me though I have looked multiple times - so I am a bit stuck in that regard.

 

[RoyalChick]

They're still nowhere near as smart as any person.

Or chicken!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

How can I make yogurt? (It’s all Greek to me)

If you seriously want to know, I can pm you the instructions.

 

[MaryJanet]

Or chicken!

I'm starting to think you and Bob were separated at birth

 

[RoyalChick]

I don't know if I should out myself as a total egg nerd, but I actually have an app for tracking my flock's egg laying.
It makes it really easy to keep track of how much everyone is laying (assuming that one can recognize whose egg is whose).

I love that. I did look at some of the apps but in the end I settled for a paper calendar and a pencil that is tied to the wire of the Chicken Palace so I don't lose them!

 

[Lexicon]

Wonderful photo and pretty lady.

As has been discussed, molting hens can lay eggs. With molting here corresponding to a drop in daylight there has been an improper connection of the 2.

Yes, most of my hens are down to two eggs a week except for a couple of overachievers. All of my hens are laying while molting. Well, Penny isn't laying, but she is broody.

Isabella stopped laying completely for three weeks while she was actively dropping feathers everywhere. She is still dropping a few feathers here and there, but has started to lay again. I see lots of feather casing bits under her spot on the roost. (I have poop boards, so this is easy to see).