Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

An Observation and an Opinion

Observation
Lady Featherington looks for a place to roost at night before cuddling. The big roost is too high and no one else is interested in doing so. Last night she tried to roost on their water dish and tonight she tried to roost on a camera.

I'm going to build them a roost and put it in the coop for them. They are not using the coop at all right now. I find that very strange. I've never had pullets not use the coop before.

Opinion
I hate the quarantine. I truly hate it. It is a huge pain in the butt going in and out of it and I cannot interact with them at all. I only saw them today to change out their water. I also feel like it delayed me picking up on things and treating Gucci.

I hate it.

I will give it 3 weeks and they are moving to the Cluckle Hut and big run.

3 weeks.

Because I hate it.

If you are anything like me, three weeks is a joke and ain’t gonna happen. But I have made terrible mistakes. So be careful!

 

[RoyalChick]

Overnight Momma Hen went from "I will kill you if you look at my baby" to "I'm done with this thing". Last night she put Karen on the roost, stayed for a hour and then got down and roosted in her favorite place the tree. Today Karen spent most of her time by herself with Momma occasionally spending time with her. Tonight she did not even see that Karen got on the roost, she went straight for the tree. I feel bad for Karen, but I saw my opportunity.
The taming of the Karen has begun.

That looks like it is going well!
She has very lovely big eyes.

 

[BY Bob]

I was going to ask you about quarantine. I thought you needed to quarantine in two situations: baby chicks until their Marek's vaccine has taken (that is what I had to do) and if you introduce older chickens from another flock who might bring in disease.
But your Rascals are neither of those - they will not have been with another flock at the hatchery, and presumably they were vaccinated day 1 - so weeks ago.
I may have that wrong, but that is what I understood.

You should quarantine any birds you add to your flock regardless of the source. Imagine if the hatchery had bird flu and they discovered it after I had mixed the new birds with mine. I need to wait out the incubation timetable to be safe but I hate it.

So much so that I may just play out these chickens and let my adventure come to an end. I'm really concerned that I am going to wind up with chickens that just live here and want to have nothing to do with me. I'm really not enjoying this.

 

[bgmathteach]

I did well with imaginary numbers. It was calculus that stopped me.

How did that stop you with math....it is just tarter on the teeth.

 

[BY Bob]

Overnight Momma Hen went from "I will kill you if you look at my baby" to "I'm done with this thing". Last night she put Karen on the roost, stayed for a hour and then got down and roosted in her favorite place the tree. Today Karen spent most of her time by herself with Momma occasionally spending time with her. Tonight she did not even see that Karen got on the roost, she went straight for the tree. I feel bad for Karen, but I saw my opportunity.
The taming of the Karen has begun.

How wonderful.

 

[bgmathteach]

Honestly?
I am beside myself. So love her. She is built like a tank however and charges through obstacles flattening them as she goes.
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That is my kind of girl!!!

 

[RoyalChick]

You should quarantine any birds you add to your flock regardless of the source. Imagine if the hatchery had bird flu and they discovered it after I had mixed the new birds with mine. I need to wait out the incubation timetable to be safe but I hate it.

So much so that I may just play out these chickens and let my adventure come to an end. I'm really concerned that I am going to wind up with chickens that just live here and want to have nothing to do with me. I'm really not enjoying this.

I did not know that but understand it. I don't know how people put day-olds under broodies etc.
I think you will be fine. I had similar concerns about the Hooligans because I have been so tied up with Bernadette's leg and Minnie's crop that I haven't just spent time with them. I was planning a major charm offensive over the next couple of weeks, but I am noticing that they are already quite friendly to me. Not lap chickens by any means but they accept me. Maybe my charm offensive will get one of them into my lap!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

When i get new chickens, I love to sit in the run with them. Then I just become part of the environment. They can be chickens without being worried about me. They can come to me when curious if they want.

I cannot get in the prefab coop with them. There is no run for them and for me to just sit in. Every interaction is the big scary human coming at them. They can't choose to come to me. Frankly it's just too difficult and I can't figure out how to form a relationship with them this way.

Ah, I feel for you! Maybe a netting over everything to make a temporary run and keep the nasty hawk out - across the coop and over to the tall corner fence, and on the other side on some posts by the shorter fence? Alternatively, one of those pre-fab mosquito patio tents?

I was going to ask you about quarantine. I thought you needed to quarantine in two situations: baby chicks until their Marek's vaccine has taken (that is what I had to do) and if you introduce older chickens from another flock who might bring in disease.
But your Rascals are neither of those - they will not have been with another flock at the hatchery, and presumably they were vaccinated day 1 - so weeks ago.
I may have that wrong, but that is what I understood.

I wasn't clear on where the pullets came from, I assumed a chicken-keeper somewhere. So there is no quarantine needed for pullets from a flock held at a reputable hatchery?

 

[RoyalChick]

Ah, I feel for you! Maybe a netting over everything to make a temporary run and keep the nasty hawk out - across the coop and over to the tall corner fence, and on the other side on some posts by the shorter fence? Alternatively, one of those pre-fab mosquito patio tents?


I wasn't clear on where the pullets came from, I assumed a chicken-keeper somewhere. So there is no quarantine needed for pullets from a flock held at a reputable hatchery?

That is what I believed but Bob has corrected me on that.

 

[BY Bob]

I did not know that but understand it. I don't know how people put day-olds under broodies etc.
I think you will be fine. I had similar concerns about the Hooligans because I have been so tied up with Bernadette's leg and Minnie's crop that I haven't just spent time with them. I was planning a major charm offensive over the next couple of weeks, but I am noticing that they are already quite friendly to me. Not lap chickens by any means but they accept me. Maybe my charm offensive will get one of them into my lap!

I surely hope so. You deserve that.