Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Getting better every day - thank you for checking!
I am eating solid food and only getting the occasional cramp. Now to tackle the probiotic replenishment phase.
Chickens are doing well but we have a very, very cold 24 hours coming up so I am a bit anxious about that as Diana is still not done molting - she shed another few feathers yesterday. Her head is covered in pin feathers in their sheaths and my fingers are just itching to pop them so she at least has a warm scarf around her.

I hear ya on the cold weather... It's already -22C here at midnight... My 12 weeks r also molting. I have the Cozy Panel heater up for them, they were all cuddled up by it yesterday.

 

[Ponypoor]

So I hauled my butt out and made certain that there was corn in the coops for when they wake up and fresh water. Mrs BY Bob just can't do the water.

So of all things I have the flu. I waited 4.5 hours in a car to be seen and to get tested. I'm on Tamiflu but I expect it will take all week until I'm feeling like myself again. Please excuse my absence.

Hope u feel better soon! Sleep, rest, watch tv ...

 

[micstrachan]

Awww...love that lap time!

Doesn't it make you feel wonderful that they love their featherless mom so much that you just don't have enough lap space!!!

to she who is worshiped by the chickens

It does feel wonderful. Sweet girls!!!

 

[featherhead007]

Apparently my hens have not read the book that claims "hens prefer dark quite places to lay their eggs." Porch box drama continues, and only getting worse. 11 girls are laying and now all but the cochins who have yet to discover the front porch fight to lay their egg in the 1 box. They are all completely ignoring the box beside the prize nest. Depending on who is in the box, and who is in line to lay they will either climb on top of a hen to lay or in Raven and Butter's case evict the hen in the box. If the box is occupied and someone else needs it, they ALL complain loudly that the box is in use. I really cannot understand why they all want that box. It's in a brightly lit, non secluded location that between letting in and out the cats and dogs and coming and going myself a high-traffic area. I can understand possibly why Bunny loves it, she hatched off her first clutch of chicks there last year. The rest of the girls...I think they just want to drive me crazy.

Can you please show me what a Cochin egg looks like?

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Can you please show me what a Cochin egg looks like?

Here you go.

 

[featherhead007]

Here you go.
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They look the same as my girls Rock eggs.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

They do look almost identical.

 

[featherhead007]

They do look almost identical.

Taste great, less filling

 

[Grandmas Coop]

Coffees ready
good morning ​

 

[Marie2020]

So I hauled my butt out and made certain that there was corn in the coops for when they wake up and fresh water. Mrs BY Bob just can't do the water.

So of all things I have the flu. I waited 4.5 hours in a car to be seen and to get tested. I'm on Tamiflu but I expect it will take all week until I'm feeling like myself again. Please excuse my absence.

You just take your time. Remember lots of fluids.

You'll beat this my friend
Thank goodness it's the flu as wretched as it is