Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Jaffar says “Please feel better soon Ester”

 

[Ponypoor]

No, I just stay up too late. I am chronically underslept.

I hear you. I am up every few hours... Underslept also

Got the barn cams to keep me entertained tho! Happy to see my chicks using the roost, they are 11 weeks old now.

 

[LozzyR]

Hi everyone. Ester isn’t feeling well. She’s standing around, has a poopy back end, does not seem to be eating much, and I think she is swollen. Not a good combination. Her posture is good while she is standing, but she is pretty inactive and (barely) scratches heartlessly.

It’s too cold to wash her bum, so I trimmed some feathers, gloved up, and pulled poop off. I also generously dusted her back end with cornstarch in hopes it would help me crumble the poop off (I think it helped).

I checked her crop when she went to roost and it was not empty. I hope that means she’s been eating when I’m not looking and not that it’s slow. I’ll check in the morning.

Her vent was VERY messy and tiny. I may bring her in for a couple hours tomorrow morning so I can properly wash her vent and surrounding area. A few months back she was messy in the back and seemed not to feel well, but was much better after I washed her off. I hope that’s what happened here… messy butt feathers backed her up, but I fear she has a reproductive problem. She never really came back into lay after her ordeal last winter at this exact same time.

I hope that helps and Ester is feeling better soon.

 

[Ponypoor]

It’s just all our California background noise keeping us awake!

No noise here! Except furnace cutting in every so often hahaha.

Gives me an excuse to look at barn cams

 

[LozzyR]

I finally got around to starting my chicken scrapbook! I was experimenting with my Cricut Joy machine that I got for my birthday. I think it turned out pretty well, except that it looks like "Our eadies".

 

[Ponypoor]

Hi everyone. Ester isn’t feeling well. She’s standing around, has a poopy back end, does not seem to be eating much, and I think she is swollen. Not a good combination. Her posture is good while she is standing, but she is pretty inactive and (barely) scratches heartlessly.

It’s too cold to wash her bum, so I trimmed some feathers, gloved up, and pulled poop off. I also generously dusted her back end with cornstarch in hopes it would help me crumble the poop off (I think it helped).

I checked her crop when she went to roost and it was not empty. I hope that means she’s been eating when I’m not looking and not that it’s slow. I’ll check in the morning.

Her vent was VERY messy and tiny. I may bring her in for a couple hours tomorrow morning so I can properly wash her vent and surrounding area. A few months back she was messy in the back and seemed not to feel well, but was much better after I washed her off. I hope that’s what happened here… messy butt feathers backed her up, but I fear she has a reproductive problem. She never really came back into lay after her ordeal last winter at this exact same time.

I hope your hen is feeling better .

 

[Ponypoor]

Jaffar says “Please feel better soon Ester” View attachment 2941707

Hi Jaffar!

 

[Ponypoor]

I finally got around to starting my chicken scrapbook! I was experimenting with my Cricut Joy machine that I got for my birthday. I think it turned out pretty well, except that it looks like "Our eadies".

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Nope I see 'ladies'

 

[Ponypoor]

Oi boy... Almost midnight, awake.... Again.

Horses and chooks behaving. Looooove my cams hahaha.

Not sure why the hen cam is foggy, it's the same type of cam as the alleyway one, and still have the old cam in the hen house and it's not foggy... Maybe lens needs cleaning.

 

[featherhead007]

No noise here! Except furnace cutting in every so often hahaha.

Gives me an excuse to look at barn cams

I get highway trucks sounding brakes and downshifting. On the roadway near me. (Walmart big rigs)