Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

@feathethead007 ok expect them via Express-Airmail

Okay. I’ll run out and buy a net to catch them with! 🕸

 

[Ponypoor]

Yee gads all this talk of jerk chicken, roast chicken, KFC.... Making me hungry! And I didn't bring lunch and it -5C and I am a whimp and dont want to drive up to Harvey's for a burger....

Oh I knows I owe tax for that haha

Whining Tax
Blast from the near past, Henny Penny photo bombing ha!

 

[featherhead007]

@RoyalChick

With my Agatha laying eggs with no shell I am using olive oil inside her vent as that seems a better option incase of any shells inside her. By the way I cannot feel any shell at all.
My question is would you think coconut oil would be better?

@anyone else if you can advise please

@alex Have you dealt with at similar problem?

I have. I increased the hens calcium intake.

 

[Kris5902]

Hah! I got one… and I even remembered it was Friday before I logged on! Barney’s son here wasn’t particularly cooperative (stand up right when I click!) I am so thankful for digital cameras, smart phones, and the internet… those young whippersnappers just don’t know how hard these things were back in the day before this tech was available… all the blurry random shots on actual film… having to make slideshows and watch them in your basement to share your vacation pictures with your friends… happy FBF chicken friends!

 

[BY Bob]

Fluffy Butt Friday
At 5:40am (well before light) Maggie decided it was time to get up.
For a hen who only a couple of months ago couldn’t stand upright or balance on a roost, she seems to be managing quite well.
She is also providing me with some night-vision fluffy butt shots!
The urgency of getting out of bed turned out to be to go lay an egg! I can’t remember the last time Maggie laid.
It is a perfect pale brown egg.
I will have it with toast for lunch.
Happy Friday everyone.

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That is wonderful. I'm so glad she is doing so much better. She is a very responsible hen getting up to lay like that.

 

[Marie2020]

I have. I increased the hens calcium intake.

I thought of this tonight so added the calcium mineral I have here.

Thanks Alex

 

[BY Bob]

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That is a wonderful picture. It's like she is pondering which way her future will take her.

 

[Ponypoor]

@RoyalChick

With my Agatha laying eggs with no shell I am using olive oil inside her vent as that seems a better option incase of any shells inside her. By the way I cannot feel any shell at all.
My question is would you think coconut oil would be better?

@anyone else if you can advise please

@alex Have you dealt with at similar problem?

I wonder if you tried Replens which is a ladies product, might be good....

 

[BY Bob]

https://mountain-topmedia.com/cockfighting-crackdown-sees-13-charged-in-two-federal-indictments/

So this just happened this week. I know this happens a lot in my area. This is appalling to me and frankly I feel that the maximum charges are not stiff enough. I've heard so many people defend this saying that it is natural for them to fight. I'm just left feeling like I want to beat them over the head with a shovel when I hear it. That is another reason it is so hard to place boys when I hatch them off. Half the people wanting roos want them for training for this crap. At times I feel it would be better to cull and eat the extra boys, but I can not do that either.

Sometimes they attach razors to their feet. In fact their owners have been killed by the razors on their rooster's feet.

Arming them is anything but natural, forget that putting them in a contained environment where people are watching is not their normal environment.

 

[RoyalChick]

@RoyalChick

With my Agatha laying eggs with no shell I am using olive oil inside her vent as that seems a better option incase of any shells inside her. By the way I cannot feel any shell at all.
My question is would you think coconut oil would be better?

@anyone else if you can advise please

@alex Have you dealt with at similar problem?

I'm adding this question my thread as it's intended for health questions to be shared

Marie, I don't think you need to be feeling inside.
Here is my understanding - but I am sure others will know more .. .. .. When they lay soft shell eggs (which are really no-shell eggs with just a rubbery membrane) it means there is no shell. And the reason it is a problem is the poor hen finds it hard to get out because there is no hard shell to push against. So if you see a soft-shell egg out in the run or nest box then she has passed it and all is good.
The times you need to feel inside are when an egg gets stuck and you are trying to help her pass it out - or when you have an obviously sick chicken and you are trying to determine if the problem is related to a stuck egg.
As I have read opinions differ on what to do if an egg with a shell breaks inside. Some say you should try and clear out the bits of shell and others seem to think it is better to let them pass on their own. Similar disagreement on antibiotics in that situation. I haven't had to face that yet. My issues have all been soft shelled eggs and given the breed (ISA browns) I assume it is because of something bad in their reproductive system.