Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

Success! Jaffar’s legs are lubricated, Rocks-Anne’s leg is cleaned up and medication is applied! She had no trouble getting up on her perch, eight feet up. Pretty sure that they will be okay.

 

[Marie2020]

Problems with my phone yet again so won't be online

 

[BY Bob]

Problems with my phone yet again so won't be online

Oh no! I hope you get it fixed quickly.

 

[rural mouse]

Twofer

Nellie and Splash: notice the combs...


More chill today, 17F at 5am. Going to drop a degree or 2 around sunrise. Yesterday got up to 30ish. 9pm last night skunk visited the house: cat food/maybe a drink. Wind has ice, no moisture with it. Birds staying close to coop: no dummies. Like sunshine and outside food, but like warming up too. Water in coop not freezingAnother egg in corner nest, also 1 in upper box. Silver roosted with the pullets last night, Pear in usual location. Cohesion is growing.

 

[BY Bob]

Who is that hen?

The leghorns can be difficult to identify individually. White hens with little to differentiate them.

Those of you who guessed Elphie are correct. This is right after she joined us. On the ground you can see Trisha. I think this is the first photo which I have of Elphie.

Looking back at these I have to use different things to identify the hens. Dolly had a slightly different body shape than the others. The hen on the ground is not Dolly. Dolly and Trisha's come were not that floppy. They had a lean to them but did not flop. So that has to be Trisha on the ground and Elphie on the leg. Elphie's comb flopped to her right and Daisy, the greatest hen ever, had a comb the flopped to her Ieft.

Gratuitous Daisy Photo

 

[BY Bob]

TwoferView attachment 2892908Nellie and Splash: notice the combs...


More chill today, 17F at 5am. Going to drop a degree or 2 around sunrise. Yesterday got up to 30ish. 9pm last night skunk visited the house: cat food/maybe a drink. Wind has ice, no moisture with it. Birds staying close to coop: no dummies. Like sunshine and outside food, but like warming up too. Water in coop not freezingAnother egg in corner nest, also 1 in upper box. Silver roosted with the pullets last night, Pear in usual location. Cohesion is growing.

This really looks like a bestie photo. Look at those 2 heading off to have an adventure.

 

[BY Bob]

2fer Tuesday

Old friends

 

[RoyalChick]

TwoferView attachment 2892908Nellie and Splash: notice the combs...


More chill today, 17F at 5am. Going to drop a degree or 2 around sunrise. Yesterday got up to 30ish. 9pm last night skunk visited the house: cat food/maybe a drink. Wind has ice, no moisture with it. Birds staying close to coop: no dummies. Like sunshine and outside food, but like warming up too. Water in coop not freezingAnother egg in corner nest, also 1 in upper box. Silver roosted with the pullets last night, Pear in usual location. Cohesion is growing.

Love pics of chickens at your place.
How are you stopping the water in the coop from freezing? Is that the crock pot?

 

[RoyalChick]

They say they are not judging me. But I feel they are judging me!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Everyone still goes after the Roadrunners and it is more than a year. Sorry. But it isn't too brutal. Well not usually.

@Blazinga Pecking order troubles happen here also, and these guys grew up together! Butters (#3) is in full molt, new feathers very slowly coming in, and she is a poor little unkempt ball right now and suffering. Hazel (#2) is ruthless to her, though never draws blood, she's just relentless, kind of terrorizing and I swear gratuitous, driving Butters "just because." Butters did a lot of running today. She let out some pitiful cries, just breaks my heart. I'm adding more blocks to the new run configurations now. Hazel sometimes just can't stand seeing Butters.

Butters (#3) does poke Popcorn (#4, also molting) at times, but nothing near what she's been getting from Hazel (#2, getting well feathered-out now from her molt). Popcorn and Hazel hang okay together, Hazel pokes her now and then. Peanut (#1 Top Hen) and Butters forage well together, which is good. When Peanut wants to move onto whatever Butters is investigating, she just sort of juts her shoulder and body that way a bit, makes no contact actually, and Butters moves off without complaint. No pecking involved, and Butters can often ease back in as Peanut moves around.

Strategic food placements (done) but now more blocks are the answer here I think. Thankfully they all seem quieter today.