Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[GregnLety]

Those pictures really brought a smile to my face ☺

I'll get more this afternoon. It's a warm but not hot breezy day so it's great weather for sitting under the live oak and watching the babies.

 

[featherhead007]

I don't have any real ponies or horses but if I did they would look like:

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No @ValarieF , for you your horse would look like this! (Kidding)!

 

[ValarieF]

No @ValarieF , you your horse would look like this! (Kidding)! View attachment 3285897View attachment 3285897

He's soooo cuuuute

 

[RoyalChick]

Can you see if she is shivering? I’m watching for that with the ones molting here now. Hazel and Peanut, molting horribly, were both very active during the day, but I could see Hazel shiver when standing out in the open. How drafty or breezy is it in the roosting area of the Palace? Does Maggie get a good snuggle in her spot at night?

I didn’t put any heat in the Buckeyes coop until it got below freezing, and then what I did was place a covered heating pad in one half of the roosting bars area so they could be on it or not. The really bare ones got fully on it, and other times judging from the poop pattern below that just getting their breasts on it was good….or, the lower-ranked hens only got what they could get. Last year Popcorn (#4) did not molt hard, it was Hazel (#2), Peanut (#1), and Butters (#3).

Elsewhere I set up a Cozy Coop panel in the very protected and sunny run area below the coop (so any heat would go up) and they could periodically retreat to it and get warmed up, yet still be “out and about” and more or less with everyone during the day. Peanut and Hazel never retreated up to the coop and heating pad except on the very coldest days, but made lots of use of the radiant panel. I’d set one up and watch how much use Maggie makes of it to tell you what more she might need.

No sign of shivering - and it is warmer for the rest of the week.
Whether she gets to snuggle on both sides or just one, is all down to the Bernadette roosting games - so it varies!
It is very draft free where they roost so I think it is OK.
That said, I am worried about her. It is plenty warm now but she seems low energy and I am still not convinced she is eating enough. I am failing to tempt her with anything.

 

[featherhead007]

He's soooo cuuuute

 

[featherhead007]

He's soooo cuuuute

He says “Give us a kiss!”

 

[featherhead007]

I’m trying to stay in a positive mood today.

 

[RoyalChick]

I’m trying to stay in a positive mood today.

 

[Ponypoor]

Can they just quietly disappear? What about fake eggs for them to "try" to eat?

Just thought of that also…

 

[ValarieF]

He says “Give us a kiss!”