Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[bgmathteach]

I know what you need but I don't remember what it's called...

Frustrating.

Uhhhh attached to the ceiling, a little wheel with a rope passing over it so you can hoist things up. A bit of weight added to your end to help you with the lifting.

A pulley!!! That's it!

Thank you for sharing working through that omni-present issue of 'what is that word I need'! It made me feel better that I'm not the only one who goes through that!

 

[Ponypoor]

Thank you for sharing working through that omni-present issue of 'what is that word I need'! It made me feel better that I'm not the only one who goes through that!

We just call it a doo-hicky-ma-bober....

 

[GregnLety]

The integration of the Silkies went well. Our white hen is glad that the rooster can't jump or fly to the top roost like she does. Lol. Silky already found her sanctuary.

 

[bgmathteach]

Are they Jamaican jerk chicken because that's delicious!

Well played!!!

 

[bgmathteach]

Bob's measurement tax
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This is the funky egg I found in the alley yesterday, it's lost some fluid so the one soft section has flattened.

But the rest of the egg has a very thin fragile 'shell'

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LOL, it looks like a soft boiled egg!

seriously, though...do you have any 'new' layers, or layers just starting up after their molt/shut down due to shortened days?

 

[Ribh]

I think it's great!

I hear ya on bantam not being good fliers, tho my satin silkie is pretty good at hop/flying up on things!

It depends on the bantam. My Japs are excellent little fliers, easily covering 20 feet or more but they don't get much elevation. My frizzled D'Uccles are hopeless ~ which doesn't stop them from getting into trouble in other ways. The Wyandottes can, but generally don't. I've never had silkies & probably never will. Round here they're called *hawk bait*.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Yes, they are in the coop with Branch, Chiquita and Corona. Branch and Chiquita manage to get themselves up onto the highest roost by themselves. I've tried blocking off their corners with the roost, they go to another corner or just the middle of the coop and pile on top of each other. I'm hoping one night it clicks, but they were almost 2 when I got them and I'm afraid this is just ingrained now in their behavior.

What is unsafe about this, smothering each other? Is it possible they learned this behavior to keep warm as chicks and to feel the covered protection of a mama hen that wasn't there? I'd be tempted to try to figure it out - see what they do with a flat surface of warmth either above them or under them with protection from above.

Set a large brooder plate or coop warmer high enough for grown chickens to get under. Maybe they will not feel the need to pile up if they have warmth & overhead protection. Or set a long covered heating pad on the floor, providing a large area of warmth, and maybe try a protective enclosure of some kind like putting it in a long nest box.

If they respond to warmth you could try a covered heating pad wrapped (like @micstrachan wraps towels) around the low roost, set on high when they first are on it, so they feel it right away, then lowered to medium or low.

 

[Ribh]

I'm the same! I measure my height in imperial, distances in both, everything else in metric (even building supplies!)

I'm mostly imperial because I never really converted when we changed over. Hence my children speak both. Cooking is always in imperial. I don't build. I say kilometers & think miles, work in feet & inches & only have a very rough idea of how hot metric temps are.

 

[BY Bob]

Awwwww I do so like a nice barred rock.

Did someone say Barred Rock?

 

[bgmathteach]

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Didn’t he also die from gastrointestinal disease ?

aortic aneurysm

Pic from a couple of weeks ago. Not much 'eaten' yet on the needles as I had just put the branch in that morning. I will get more/better pics this weekend, though!