Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Shadrach]

@Shadrach, what does her personality say to you? You usually name on that more often then looks anyways. She looks curious but a bit cautious in photos.

I'll be working on it. I'm sticking with the hens I can at least iidentify correctly atm.

 

[fuentemoon]

Mine will only eat the stringy insides of squashes, that's how we ended up with volunteer acorn and carnival squash plants last year!

 

[featherhead007]

I’m angry with Beethov-Hen! My church friend had gifted me with another bag of meally worms. So as I was out treating the chooks, she jumped up on me and spilled the whole bag onto the ground. I salvaged as many as I could, but I could only save 1/2 of the bag! The rest of the worms, were in the grass, in the dirt and all over me!
naughty girl!

 

[Shadrach]

Volt and Amp.
These two are Red Rocks, a cross beween a Rhode Island Red and a Plymouth Rock.
They are the most aggressive hens in the group.
Volt, instant aggression but over in a flash.

Amp, just plain mean and chases any more junior hen that upsets her.

The pair. Interestingly, Henry won't have anything to do with either of them and chases them away from the food and the weaker hens.

 

[RoyalChick]

Volt and Amp.
These two are Red Rocks, a cross beween a Rhode Island Red and a Plymouth Rock.
They are the most aggressive hens in the group.
Volt, instant aggression but over in a flash.
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Amp, just plain mean and chases any more junior hen that upsets her.
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The pair. Interestingly, Henry won't have anything to do with either of them and chases them away from the food and the weaker hens.
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Ate you able to tell them apart?

 

[Shadrach]

Ate you able to tell them apart?

Yes, Volt has much more copper in her hackles and her wattles are lower hanging and a different shape to Amps. There are othher differences in posture and demeanour.

 

[LozzyR]

Go Flash Go always reminds me of this.

That is TERRIBLE!!! And Brian Blessed….

 

[Shadrach]

Lima is improving.
I've been feeding her scrambled eggs which she likes and will eat a reasonable quantity of. It's time consuming because she wont eat much in one go. I've also got three doses of Flubenvet down her. That's time consuming as well. It's been a beakfull at a time spread over a couple of hours each day. She's spending much less time standing around with her eyes closed and head sunk into her breast.
Best of all and terribly heartrending is she has a friend. When she looks most miserable she goes and cuddles up to one of the legbars. I've watched her do this a number of times now and the legbar does not move away as one might expect her to.
Lima spends a great deal of her out time foraging but recently she has come and sat or stand under my chair.
I've been expecting to arrive at the run one morning to find her dead. If today is anything to go by she may just make it.

Until today all I've seen of Lima's poop is water and unhealthy looking bits and one very yellow cecal poop. This is what she did today and while it's a long way from good, it does at least have solid content and is getting to a more acceptable colour.

 

[RoyalChick]

I have spent most of today following Minnie around looking for evidence of poop.
I have now put her in the isolation crate with an ‘all you can eat’ buffet including feed pellets, diced cabbage and beef liver, sunflower seeds, grit rocks, and oyster shell.
I am not sure she actually ate the coconut oil I offered and I didn’t have the heart to force her as the whole crate thing felt stressful.
She rewarded me with this little offering. Not perfect and very small. But at least it is not just clear liquid.
I think I put the picture in a spoiler but it isn’t that disgusting!

 

[MaryJanet]

Now yer talking!

Well, I should know your naming style by now