Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

He certainly didn't waste any time trying to 'get it on' with the girls...and they all scattered. He has to learn to Woo them first!!! Find them food, escort them, guard them while laying, etc. Patience my man, patience!!!
They are pretty much just hanging out…

I keep waiting for a big fight

 

[Ponypoor]

Marty was quite interested in him

She isn’t the newbie anymore haha

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh I am so glad. He is gorgeous, but he clearly thinks more of himself than the ladies do. He is going to have to work a bit to win them over.

Yep, all but Marty know what roosters are and they don’t make any fuss. I was worried either Henny Penny or Penelope would cause trouble but so far so good…

 

[featherhead007]

Marty was quite interested in him

She isn’t the newbie anymore haha

He’ll get along just fine with the others. (Or there would have been a fight already)

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I will write a tribute later when I can absorb everything that has happened today.
In short. Minnie is gone to join her sister. There are no more Roadrunners at the Chicken Palace.
Maggie laid a lash egg - so I think we can be confident that the one that was in the nest box a week or so ago was not from Dotty but from Maggie as I suspected. It is a year and 11 months since she laid lash eggs before so she has been on borrowed time for quite a while. But I love her borrowed time and the thought that it might end soon is deeply depressing to me. I will probably give her antibiotics, I think @BY Bob would agree.
And Diana reminded me of her mortality by laying yet another no-shell egg.
Altogether not a great day for chickens at the Chicken Palace. I am down to 4 chickens and have more dead chickens than alive chickens which I don't think is what chicken-math normally means.

What you have been through in such a short time is beyond words. I am so sorry. RIP dear Minnie

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Marty was quite interested in him

She isn’t the newbie anymore haha

Not to be a enabler, but type in polkies on the search bar here. I will patiently wait to hear back from you.

 

[featherhead007]

How ya doing today RC?

 

[ChicoryBlue]

My wonderful day continues. Went to town to mail the swabs from Minnie to the lab for PCR testing. Guy reverses out of his parking spot into my car.
Surprising amount of damage and lots of insurance bureaucracy.
On the bright side it has given me something else to be upset about and nobody was hurt.

Are you considering having a necropsy done also?

 

[ValarieF]

Marty was quite interested in him

She isn’t the newbie anymore haha

I just love it!

 

[RoyalChick]

How ya doing today RC?

Awww. Thanks. I am OK. You know, one foot in front of the other and carry on.
Actually my feet are propped up on a rubber feed bowl while I enjoy the gloriously cool sunny day in the chicken field. Canadian air - and it is lovely.
I suppose I should go get something done but it is just soooo lovely here and Lulu has been sitting with me having a snooze.