Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

@micstrachan

You certainly got it right with the coconut oil.
I gave amber some after her breakfast this morning and she actually did a normal poop. I was not able to take a picture. That's the first normal poo in god knows how long

I used too mix it in their layers feed but it never worked like this. Thanks ever so much

 

[Shadrach]

Cloud. The FBF view.

Cloud. The fluffy all over view.

 

[Marie2020]

Yes! Raw it can be a bit tough for them but cooked they should be fine. Mine go for it raw but only slowly.

I was thinking in a casserole I want to save the nutrients.

 

[Marie2020]

Yes! Raw it can be a bit tough for them but cooked they should be fine. Mine go for it raw but only slowly.

I've drizzled olive oil into the casserole and put it in too roast. I will let you know how it turns out.

 

[rural mouse]

Here's a few quick tips that I use: Eagles are definitely day hunters, you will not see them in dim light or at night. Owls have blunt heads and your first impression is a small body relative to the length and breadth of the wings (like a bullet with wings too big for it). Eagles soar with their wings horizontal to the body, and from below it looks a lot like a paper airplane with squared-off rectangle wings, there's not much "point" to the wing tips. They are also very steady flyers. Vultures hold their wings in a V-shaped dihedral (looking at it horizontally), and that makes them pretty unsteady in flight, so you see them kind of tippy with any cross-breeze or wind change, dipping one wing or the other.

Here's a good short page on the basics of the three types of "hawks"
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/fall-2021/look-introduction-identifying-raptors-flight

Here's all about our friend
https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/red-tailed-hawk

The following is very cool, an animated map showing the migration patterns and dates for your chosen bird, here I put in Red Tail Hawk (@BY Bob and RC check out what PA looks like in early November). You might have to join ebird to see it? It is free. They have been collecting data from volunteer users and have gotten some really robust visualizations of it now.
https://ebird.org/science/status-and-trends/rethaw/abundance-map-weekly

I misspoke earlier - it's the Rough-Legged Hawk, not the Red-Shouldered Hawk, that for the Northeast is mostly north and we don't see it except seasonally
https://ebird.org/science/status-and-trends/rolhaw/abundance-map-weekly

Interesting. hawks here in summer: red tailed. In winter, rough legged with some red tailed... I know of a couple of spots with paired red tailed there year round. I'm going to be looking more closely at this.

 

[rural mouse]

I thought I read chickens see ultraviolet light.

If so, that would explain mine exploring the yard in the mostly dark. Blue toned yard light hits that direction of the spectrum.

 

[rural mouse]

I would agree in general but Snowy Owls hunt during the day, also Short-Eared Owls (Short-Ears are ones that really look like flying bullets or WWll propeller planes btw). I used to go on a winter field trip during the day to look for migrating short-ears just north of here. They would be hunting the fields, flying low until about midday, then start up again towards late afternoon.

I was trying to keep it simple for RC. After her struggles with various breeds ofc chicken, I figured: let her process before throwing the exceptions at her. (Like owl nesting time being in deep winter so the owlets fledged and learn to hunt on the baby rabbits/mice. Which shifts the migration times on those off of spring/fall).

 

[RoyalChick]

I've drizzled olive oil into the casserole and put it in too roast. I will let you know how it turns out.

 

[RoyalChick]

I was trying to keep it simple for RC. After her struggles with various breeds ofc chicken, I figured: let her process before throwing the exceptions at her. (Like owl nesting time being in deep winter so the owlets fledged and learn to hunt on the baby rabbits/mice. Which shifts the migration times on those off of spring/fall).

Thank you! I can’t wait to get back home so I can try figuring this out!
Back next week at the peak week for red-tailed hawks.

 

[rural mouse]

Good evening

I've been given the flesh of a pumpkin with seeds for my chickens. Would cooking it in a casserole be okay?

i gave mine the raw guts (I kept the seeds for me). After I roasted the pumpkin (Like a butternut squash without seasonings), I scraped the peel and gave them that too. They liked the cooked peel better, but ate both.