Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

Yes, me too, I try to learn and prepare and then feel at such a loss when it's actually happening!
Well I could try to feed them some yogurt and calcium.

I think I would go with the yogurt and calcium mixed and try feeding her , it's messy but possible

Because the coop quarters are small it will disturb everyone for me to open the back and figure out who is Peanut, feel her and get her to eat. The pills I have are huge, not those mini-pills I see one can get. I'm checking the camera now.

 

[Marie2020]

Honestly giving a pill to a chicken is very, very easy. I get nervous with liquids and syringes - though those aren't that hard either. But pills are laughably easy.
Break your pill in half.
Hold chicken on lap or counter top. Constrain wings with towel or just hug her close to you.
Pry open beak - that is the hardest bit.
Pop pill in towards the side - like in her cheek if she had one.
Tell her she is a good girl.
Repeat.
I have no idea why, but once it is inside their beak it just goes down the hatch.

The problem was when I did this with Agatha I think it affected her eating for a while.

 

[ValarieF]

Took a muscle relaxer and went to bed early last night. Didn't help really have to lay because sitting hurts. Chicks are tucked away for the night. I woke up at 2am its 3:50

 

[ValarieF]

 

[rural mouse]

Oh wow that’s bad weather to have so early in the season even for you

Please - keep it

But a full moon makes for some pretty 2 am pictures...

Taken with phone camera, no flash, no filters. And the 2nd, all the shadows are cast by the moon.


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3 hopeful beaus displaying the sentinel prowess for a single lady (everyone else was in the coop)
(3rd boy behind the shrub)

 

[Marie2020]

Good morning

 

[Marie2020]

But a full moon makes for some pretty 2 am pictures...View attachment 3317284View attachment 3317285Taken with phone camera, no flash, no filters. And the 2nd, all the shadows are cast by the moon.

You should frame these pictures they are really something

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View attachment 33172863 hopeful beaus displaying the sentinel prowess for a single lady (everyone else was in the coop)
(3rd boy behind the shrub)

 

[ValarieF]

Good morning

Good morning

 

[Ponypoor]

Took a muscle relaxer and went to bed early last night. Didn't help really have to lay because sitting hurts. Chicks are tucked away for the night. I woke up at 2am its 3:50

I am awake and up - I made the mistake of checking the barn cam and not lowering the volume on my phone - Mr P is crowing up a storm! Hahaha I am awake now hahaha!

 

[Ponypoor]

Good morning

Morning! Too early to get up really but my RLS has me up again. Mr P is yodelling up a atorm out there - music to my ears really