Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Thanks. But “there’s a bathroom on the right”?

She said that in the song!

 

[Marie2020]

 

[Ponypoor]

You guys.....

Hey I thought it was awesome you found such an obscure song as that one!

You know it's a favourite of mine

Poor sheep though! And aunt Martha would be fuming if she knew about the RCMP constable

 

[Ponypoor]

She said that in the song!

Well are those the words?

 

[Ponypoor]

Good night Marie

 

[featherhead007]

Well are those the words?

Now I’m not sure just how the song goes. You really messed with my head!

 

[RoyalChick]

@Ribh this picture may help explain.
The lit area is the brooder box/hospital ward. I moved Minnie in there today. It isn’t really lit, the cameras pick up each other’s night vision.
The big ladies are on the roost visible at bottom left of the picture.
The wood frame in front of the brooder is what I call the fire escape. It has ramps so chicks can walk down from the brooder to the floor below but the bigs can’t chase them. The Hooligans don’t use ramps. I think because Bernadette can’t walk down them.
The Hooligans themselves are all asleep on the top of the fire escape on their penthouse level observation deck piled up against the little door into the brooder (which is closed).

 

[WhoDatChick]

Thank you for the words of encouragement.
I am actually not too afraid Bernadette will hurt herself and I do believe she will only learn to adapt if she goes out in the world and tries to do things. I am impressed by how much she is able to do and has already learned to do.
I am a little afraid that she won't be able to get away fast enough if one of the big chickens attacks her and that she needs to be able to find her way back to the safe places where the big ones can't reach her. Both Bella and Lulu can fly up to their penthouse. Bernadette just cannot leap up and however much she flaps she can't get above 18" (a half a meter).
I believe that Bella and Lulu are not going out and exploring the coop because Bernadette cannot physically do so and so they stay with her. Now they have access at ground level so I am hoping that Bernadette will be able to explore and the others will go with her.
But the signs are not encouraging. They have settled into their ground floor apartment and are spending their time cuddled together in a cardboard box just a few steps from a doorway to the wider coop world. They are alert but they prefer to watch everything from the comfort of the cardboard box!
They behave a bit like a cult - they have everything they need from each other and no need to enter into the outside world.
I have blocked off access to the penthouse because all of a sudden this morning the lovely Minnie has become very ill. I thought I felt a stuck egg but then it wasn't there so I am not certain. So Minnie has moved into the penthouse (hospital ward) and the Hooligans are confined to their ground floor apartment with access to the whole of the Chicken Palace if they would just get off their butts and explore!

Here they are cuddled in their ground floor apartment all tangled together in the cardboard box they love. They go out and eat and drink and then come back and spend the day together in the box.
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And here is Minnie who is really the picture of misery and who I fear I may lose. She is not moving and as you can see is very miserable. She looks just like Elizabeth before she died. Same thing - yesterday she was fine. This morning definitely not fine.


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I don’t know anything about these gals but this is so interesting... have you tried taking them outside on the grass? Perhaps that would interest them
This is so puzzling

 

[WhoDatChick]

Thank you for the words of encouragement.
I am actually not too afraid Bernadette will hurt herself and I do believe she will only learn to adapt if she goes out in the world and tries to do things. I am impressed by how much she is able to do and has already learned to do.
I am a little afraid that she won't be able to get away fast enough if one of the big chickens attacks her and that she needs to be able to find her way back to the safe places where the big ones can't reach her. Both Bella and Lulu can fly up to their penthouse. Bernadette just cannot leap up and however much she flaps she can't get above 18" (a half a meter).
I believe that Bella and Lulu are not going out and exploring the coop because Bernadette cannot physically do so and so they stay with her. Now they have access at ground level so I am hoping that Bernadette will be able to explore and the others will go with her.
But the signs are not encouraging. They have settled into their ground floor apartment and are spending their time cuddled together in a cardboard box just a few steps from a doorway to the wider coop world. They are alert but they prefer to watch everything from the comfort of the cardboard box!
They behave a bit like a cult - they have everything they need from each other and no need to enter into the outside world.
I have blocked off access to the penthouse because all of a sudden this morning the lovely Minnie has become very ill. I thought I felt a stuck egg but then it wasn't there so I am not certain. So Minnie has moved into the penthouse (hospital ward) and the Hooligans are confined to their ground floor apartment with access to the whole of the Chicken Palace if they would just get off their butts and explore!

Here they are cuddled in their ground floor apartment all tangled together in the cardboard box they love. They go out and eat and drink and then come back and spend the day together in the box.
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And here is Minnie who is really the picture of misery and who I fear I may lose. She is not moving and as you can see is very miserable. She looks just like Elizabeth before she died. Same thing - yesterday she was fine. This morning definitely not fine.


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Oh, and I’m so sorry about Minnie... she looks like my Ruby did as well...

 

[Ribh]

@Ribh this picture may help explain.
The lit area is the brooder box/hospital ward. I moved Minnie in there today. It isn’t really lit, the cameras pick up each other’s night vision.
The big ladies are on the roost visible at bottom left of the picture.
The wood frame in front of the brooder is what I call the fire escape. It has ramps so chicks can walk down from the brooder to the floor below but the bigs can’t chase them. The Hooligans don’t use ramps. I think because Bernadette can’t walk down them.
The Hooligans themselves are all asleep on the top of the fire escape on their penthouse level observation deck piled up against the little door into the brooder (which is closed).

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Thanks, RC. Very helpful.