Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

I need some reassurance. Lulu is developing a comb and wattles more than Bernadette and much more than Bella who doesn’t seem to possess either.
She is more zippy than the other Hooligans but I have been putting that down to her being a Legbar - she definitely likes to fly.
She is chest bumping Bernadette but all three of them are chest bumping each other.
She is now 13 weeks old (@BY Bob I must have miscounted weeks previously - they are much older than yours).
Is there anything that says boy about Lulu?

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When I say Lulu is zippy, this is the kind of thing I mean. It is like this all the time!

Watch the video from the start. It is only short but for some reason for me it loads half way through.

 

[featherhead007]

I can’t believe that I’m laying here with Coco on my chest, playing “the duck song “ all four versions. (I have so much to do, but this is more important to me than that business I should be doing)

 

[RoyalChick]

You can list it as "Unlisted" which will restrict it to a link posted here (which could be copied and shared, but it's not quite as public).

That is what I do. Only people with a link can view what I post. Trouble is I can’t remember where I found that setting. I made it the default for all my videos.

 

[featherhead007]

Making Alex behave, that is just an impossibility.
I wouldn't want him any other way but don't tell him that

I heard that!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Just amazing. Sydney does this when ranging. She mutters constantly. I'll try and grab video.

Yes, muttering, that's the word, when foraging!

 

[Marie2020]

Yes, muttering, that's the word, when foraging!

Or getting treats

 

[Marie2020]

Good night fluffy butt's

 

[featherhead007]

Yes, muttering, that's the word, when foraging!

Cows forage too (sometimes). Does that mean, that they mutter, with their udder , in the gutter while making butter?

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Well, as much as I love my 2 remaining cochin girls I have to say they are driving me crazy and soon something is going to have to give. These 2 have been constantly broody which really does not bother me, I can deal with broodiness. The killer is both of them have became for no reason the last 2 months egg eaters. Be it theirs when they are laying, or anyone else's eggs they come across before I collect them if they spot it they eat it. I cannot have that. They have layer feed available and calcium so there is no good reason for this. I'm terrified the rest of the flock will pick up on this behavior. Besides being pampered pets we all know I have chickens for eggs. I'm loosing at least 2 or 3 a day from them now and that is with me running out almost hourly looking for eggs. I cannot keep doing this. Option 1 that has been suggested to me is to cull them. I really do not want to do that, I'd rather rehome them if it comes to that. Then again I do not want to put this problem off on someone else either. I'm going to have to figure out something in the next month or so. The hooligans are quickly approaching laying age and that just means more eggs for them to potentially eat.

Ouch!
I have read that having a lot of ceramic eggs in the nests teaches them not to do it because a mighty peck on a ceramic egg yields nothing but a sore beak!
I have no idea if it is true - but it is a cheap solve so may be worth trying!

I agree, I would collect from her but leave fake eggs, have many on hand and just keep leaving them. It may help.

 

[featherhead007]

Cows forage too (sometimes). Does that mean, that they mutter, with their udder , in the gutter while making butter?

“Alexander, won’t you ever shut up?”
“I never mutter in the gutter making butter!”