Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[lightm]

Got a FB from Ash
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fluffy as a cloud!! It looks like she has feather sticking out of her vent? She reminds me of my poor Inky.

This is my best photo of Inky's fluffy butt:

 

[Marie2020]

They are gorgeous. That little bowling ball just looks so soft.

Agreed, simply gorgeous

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Battle at the Top
I suppose this was inevitable. I may have spoken too soon.

Well I think we have learned who leads the Rascals. Little Glynda just attacked Aurora. there was a pause and I was able to get the camera running and grabbed the finale. Rest assured, Glynda started it. it seems that Aurora ended it.

Right after I stopped filming, Glynda looked at Hattie wrong and got stood on for her troubles.

Aurora is still squawking mad because she was challenged. She took that out on Hattie a few minutes ago. Aurora is walking around the yard squawking still.

Look at Betty - she’s wanting to see the action up close! Her body language says to Aurora that she knows her place and will be no trouble. But she knows how mad Aurora is, she takes cover there behind the shrub just in case!

 

[Marie2020]

Sooooo, all you really need is an air compressor, the vaccine, some tubing and one of the needle tunes, to build one. They have to make replacement parts somewhere....

I clicked like but don't understand at all to be honest

 

[bgmathteach]

Everyone keep one of my red girls in your thoughts. I'm in full blown emergency mode right now with her. The people that are renting the house down at the barn got a new pup 2 months ago. They have kept her tied up until this evening. She got ahold of one of my girls. She is alive, but is in obvious shock and has a dime size puncture hole on her back, it does not look too deep though. Mom is working with the hen, I'm going out to do a head count on everyone else, and dad is on his way to have a not so nice talk with her owner. I'm ready to shoot the dog.

Oh, no. I hope she is okay! The toughest thing with that is being sure to get the puncture wound disinfected - so hard! I'll keep her (and all of you) in my thoughts! Hopefully your mom can work her magic on her tonight....keep hew warm, safe & quiet.

 

[BY Bob]

Little CheetahView attachment 3223525 chases big Hector, who runsView attachment 3223526Meanwhile the hormonal idiotsView attachment 3223527Tag team a pullet and stand around when Cheetah runs up to screaming pullet. Cheetah hasn't quite figured out what to do: if he does for 1 of them, the other jumps the pullet. Neither runs...

They are terrible. Nasty fellows.

 

[Marie2020]

I did do an experiment today. There were multiple attacks this afternoon, the first one was Ginger (top hen) alone chasing Inky all the way back to coop corner and attacked her there, then left. I locked Ginger out of the run. I then encouraged Inky to come out again for dinner. But then she was attacked by Poopy and Honey (their pecking order is 4/5) the 2nd time around. It appears that my three golden comets are the bad girls.

[To complete the story, I thought I'd let them out to limited free range after the 2nd attack. This is when all girls cornered Inky and I had to rescue her. She may have been fine if I had opened up the whole backyard. Sigh.]

I feel like I'm whining too much so I will post some bully girl picture:

Honey looking innocent
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Poopy hunting for bugs
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I'd have them ALL grounded separately. They need time to reconsider their behaviour

 

[rural mouse]

It isn't deep enough for a true dished nest so the hen can support herself above the eggs. She ends up resting directly on them and they break. I remember @Shadrach posting about this previously. For my DC broodies that hatched, I put them in my broodie house, which has deeper nest boxes (they were fine with the move). In those nest boxes, I put a box with about 3" of slightly damp sand, made a 'dished' nest), then put straw on top....then moved their eggs then moved them. Worked wonderful. Then hens feet/legs were on the higher, supportive edge of sand with the eggs lower, so the hens weight didn't break them, but the hen could still make contact to keep the eggs warm.
These aren't deep enough for that.

Plus, these hens get booted by some of my more dominant (personality& heirarchy wise) hens...

Could you cut a nest sized hole in the floor line, and clip/build a tray filled with sand onto the bottom? It would shrink the tool storage a bit, but if you hinged the thing, you could dump and refill with clean sand occasionally. If it works, remove the bottom and you have a new bottom

 

[BY Bob]

Sooooo, all you really need is an air compressor, the vaccine, some tubing and one of the needle tunes, to build one. They have to make replacement parts somewhere....

If only I were an engineer.

 

[BY Bob]

fluffy as a cloud!! It looks like she has feather sticking out of her vent? She reminds me of my poor Inky.

This is my best photo of Inky's fluffy butt:
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Beautiful.