Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Omg. What happened Alex? I'm so sorry

Chickens die, that’s what they do sometimes!

 

[Marie2020]

Rocks-Anne is gone. She left me at 4:58pm in my arms still trying to breathe even till the end.

I caught up Alex. I'm really sorry I wasn't here to lend my support

 

[BY Bob]

Rocks-Anne isn’t well. Crop puffy and has breathing problems. No energy, and moving very slow. Clear discharge from her beak! I’m scared for her. She was fine yesterday.

Could it be heat related?

 

[BY Bob]

Up-periscope!
It is Monday morning and there are signals to send.

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Marvelous.

 

[featherhead007]

I’m too broken up to bury her this afternoon. I am going to bury her in the morning, directly under her favorite bug hunting spot. Sadly, Hen-Rietta will have to go through the mourning process (with me)

 

[goldenfingers]

Rocks-Anne is gone. She left me at 4:58pm in my arms still trying to breathe even till the end.

Sorry to hear. It seems like it's always the favorites.

 

[Marie2020]

I hope you're okay Alex. I'll come back ASAP tomorrow. My roof work is starting in the morning

 

[featherhead007]

Could it be heat related?

No one else has been affected by the weather

 

[BY Bob]

Question: how accurate is the kippenjungle chicken genetics calculator? According to it, a gold penciled Hamburg crossed with a mottled Houdan results in a black split to mottled 100% of the time. 50% with rose combs, 50% with split rose combs (guessing fat v-vombs). I have 1 chick that has identical markings to Cheetah at the same age, but has cheek puffs and we know hatched out of a white egg (only white eggs came from my birds). Only cheeks in my birds are on Thing, making this chick an anomaly. However, I was just sent this pic
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This one hatched with chipmunk stripes and there are ZERO birds in MIL tribes with crests. None of Storms eggs made it out of the shell. The 2 pips but not make it were her eggs). 2 anomalies out of the same hatch make me seriously question the accuracy of the calculator. any ideas? (BTW, this makes 4 crests for her lot)

I cannot help with this but hopefully someone else has.

 

[featherhead007]

Sorry to hear. It seems like it's always the favorites.

So true!