Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

I will never understand women!

Does she look guilty to any of you?

 

[bgmathteach]

Today has been one of those days that I'm grateful I have the chickens and horses as a distraction. They kept me from fully loosing my temper several times. Grandma's appointment with the neurologist did NOT go the way she wanted it to go and he told her some things she did not want to hear. She started it off by arguing that she almost had a stroke, and he corrected her and told her that she DID have one. He also told her that the full side effects of stroke can take up to 6 months to become apparent. She told him she was going home, he told her it was either stay with us or a nursing home. She has to go back in 3 months for a memory test, she's refusing. To make her happy afterwards we took her to the grocery store, while in there she blew up and said she was not staying any longer. I lost it, and told her to tell me which nursing home to call then. She stopped arguing, but has barely spoken to me or mom the rest of the evening.

I'm sorry, @RebeccaBoyd It is so hard when they refuse to admit the health issues, Good that she is stubborn, but it would be nice if she applied that stubbornness to working WITH you and DR., not against.

You are doing an amazing job despite the challenges.


And, as usual, Yay for chickens! They are great stress reducers...except when they are the cause of stress

 

[bgmathteach]

Does she look guilty to any of you?
View attachment 3072545

Nope, she looks coy!

 

[featherhead007]

Nope, she looks coy!

I had a talk with Jaffar. He seems okay with her looking over the fence (he’s too short to do anything about it anyways)

 

[bgmathteach]

I had a talk with Jaffar. He seems okay with her looking over the fence (he’s too short to do anything about it anyways)

My father used to joke: 'It's okay to look, you just can't touch.' (Of course, Mom wasn't so excited about that statement...but her 'tempered' response was 'You better not touch, or I just might 'TOUCH' you!")

I'll post chicken tax tonight!

 

[Kris5902]

Hatch hiccups:

Mama has one fluffy happy ready to go chick, and three chirping but not yet pipped eggs. She took off like a rocket this morning and I carefully listened to the three remaining eggs. Getting her back on the nest was a pain, but I think she sitting again. Normally she would have more than one and I’d just let her go and stuff the chirping eggs under a different broody, who would then take them and so on… but I don’t have another broody!I wish I had the power up here to have an incubator running, but I need to upgrade my solar and batteries before that’s a reality.

I’m a little worried as she rolled the eggs a lot resettling on the nest. Anyone else have flaky broodies or experience with a lot of egg disturbances in the late stages?

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Final count is 27 chicks. I had 5 that made the external pip, 3 of them almost fully zip and then pass in the shell. The other 3 eggs seemed to have quit sometime after the 2nd candling. They had started to develop feathers. The last egg we checked was a cochin egg that had pipped, I'm glad it passed in the shell. If it had not I would have had my first deformity, it had a 3rd partially formed leg growing out of its back. I only ended up with 1 Corona chick hatching, so right now all my hopes for that Corona daughter lies with the 1 Baby has. Baby also now has a 4th chick as of this morning. Overnight a Squirrel egg hatched and the chick is identical to what Squirrel looked like as a baby. Mom insisted I see if Baby would accept it in hopes of another hen that looks like Squirrel. I waited until Baby had taken the other 3 out for a hour to forage and when she was ready to bring them back up to the nest I snuck it out to her. I tricked her by taking one of the white ones out to hold and when I tucked it back under her I also tucked the other chick in with it. It's been 4 hours and she's already showed it how to eat and thankfully she cannot count.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Hatch hiccups:

Mama has one fluffy happy ready to go chick, and three chirping but not yet pipped eggs. She took off like a rocket this morning and I carefully listened to the three remaining eggs. Getting her back on the nest was a pain, but I think she sitting again. Normally she would have more than one and I’d just let her go and stuff the chirping eggs under a different broody, who would then take them and so on… but I don’t have another broody!I wish I had the power up here to have an incubator running, but I need to upgrade my solar and batteries before that’s a reality.

I’m a little worried as she rolled the eggs a lot resettling on the nest. Anyone else have flaky broodies or experience with a lot of egg disturbances in the late stages?

I've not payed much attention to when the hens have chicks hatching to how they shuffle the eggs. But this time around I did not remove the chicks as they hatched like I used to do after 2 or 3 were out. I think the chicks rolling the eggs around for the most part encouraged them to hatch as for once it was not drawn out over several days.

 

[RoyalChick]

Final count is 27 chicks. I had 5 that made the external pip, 3 of them almost fully zip and then pass in the shell. The other 3 eggs seemed to have quit sometime after the 2nd candling. They had started to develop feathers. The last egg we checked was a cochin egg that had pipped, I'm glad it passed in the shell. If it had not I would have had my first deformity, it had a 3rd partially formed leg growing out of its back. I only ended up with 1 Corona chick hatching, so right now all my hopes for that Corona daughter lies with the 1 Baby has. Baby also now has a 4th chick as of this morning. Overnight a Squirrel egg hatched and the chick is identical to what Squirrel looked like as a baby. Mom insisted I see if Baby would accept it in hopes of another hen that looks like Squirrel. I waited until Baby had taken the other 3 out for a hour to forage and when she was ready to bring them back up to the nest I snuck it out to her. I tricked her by taking one of the white ones out to hold and when I tucked it back under her I also tucked the other chick in with it. It's been 4 hours and she's already showed it how to eat and thankfully she cannot count.

Oh I think she can count. She is just happy that she seems to be able to hatch babies without bothering with the egg stage of things!

 

[bgmathteach]

Tax payment:

Sorry the picture is so dark. Evidently, last night roosting outside the coop was preferable. She is reluctantly going into the coop after some prodding by Mum.

One of my light brahmas They are such an easy going breed!