Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Kris5902]

That’s a great set up.

I am rethinking my outside run now that I know the hawk is around, I need to get some mesh over top asap.

Anyone have any suggestions? The run is 16’ wide and about 90’ long - but broken up by big trees.

Just remember, if you use a soft netting, or string lines, you may eventually find yourself having to disentangle a bird with really nasty talons and a serious beak. Before we got chickens, when we were just recently arrived on island DH got to help another farmer (where I was gardening in 2020 & 2021) with this task. Welding gloves suggested. A red shouldered hawk made a dive and got stuck in the anti-hawk string lines the guy had up. Fun times.

 

[featherhead007]

Probably planning how to con Alex into getting them more treats

Probably!

 

[featherhead007]

I’m trying to train Dakota to speak. She’s inside the chickens room, watching a looping YouTube video of Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room show. (If those birds can talk and sing, so can Dakota!)

 

[featherhead007]

I’m trying to train Dakota to speak. She’s inside the chickens room, watching a looping YouTube video of Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room show. (If those birds can talk and sing, so can Dakota!)

I’m only thinking selflessly about her future. When her egg laying days are over, she’s still going to need a job. A talking, singing chicken would be a hoot!

 

[Ponypoor]

Hi people. Remember the sick hen I tried to help last weekend who died a couple days later? The necropsy results already came in. She had salpingitis AND peritonitis and they went septic. She also had a bacterial lung infection. The poor little thing didn’t really have a chance. How kind they were to take her in and try to save her. At least she wasn’t taken by a predator.

Awwww poor wee thing. Glad you tried to help, and happy they gave her security and safety in her last days.

 

[Ponypoor]

Yes Karen is one of mine. Good guess, she is very close to laying as well, but it was not her. The egg belongs to my Corona daughter Lilly.

Is she a Maran? Such a beautiful egg love the speckles

 

[Ponypoor]

Probably planning how to con Alex into getting them more treats

Yeah that’s likely it!

 

[Ponypoor]

Just remember, if you use a soft netting, or string lines, you may eventually find yourself having to disentangle a bird with really nasty talons and a serious beak. Before we got chickens, when we were just recently arrived on island DH got to help another farmer (where I was gardening in 2020 & 2021) with this task. Welding gloves suggested. A red shouldered hawk made a dive and got stuck in the anti-hawk string lines the guy had up. Fun times.

Whoa ya welders gloves for sure

I think I will put hazard tape throughout the mesh so birds can see it, I was more worried about smaller song birds, but I guess raptors would also be a problem!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Is she a Maran? Such a beautiful egg love the speckles

yes she is a Marans. She is special, she is a Daisy great-granddaughter.

 

[rural mouse]

Well that was a complete waste of time.
I found bricks. I figured the configuration so they fitted in the nest box. I cleaned the bricks. I brought them up to the Chicken Palace. I dried them off in the sun. I put the top layer in the oven to heat them up. I constructed a cardboard cover for them. I placed it all carefully in 'Maggie's box', I covered it with pine shavings, I put pine cat litter in the lower part so the liquid poo would be absorbed.
I felt pretty pleased with myself.
Maggie took one look at it and went into the next box along.

Sounds like all the boxes or none of them need to get treated