Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ValarieF]

She is so pretty!!! She is quite red in these pictures hummm. I have no experience in these matters to diagnose anything however I do recall a very old post in this thread from Shadrach when he lived in Spain. He had a hen who never did lay any eggs and lived for many many years so it seems quite possible that even if she never lays a single egg she could live a very long and happy life.

My girls are quite red and some are squatting, I wonder how long before they lay an egg?.

 

[knoturavggrl]

My girls are quite red and some are squatting, I wonder how long before they lay an egg?.

Yours are ahead of mine by several weeks if I am remembering correctly. I would think fairly soon!!

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh my what a gorgeous creature! I shouldn’t and wouldn’t but I’ll admit it I do entirely want to pet it.

They do get quite habituated with people, in fact I have heard the guys here on other projects telling me they will lay on the dirt piles in the sun rolling around like a big old tabby cat hahaha.

It’s grounds for termination of one is caught feeding or handling or interfering with any wildlife. But I am sure the guys do when no one is looking!

Especially the Whisky Jacks (Grey Jays) which are so smart and people oriented, they will land on your open window in your truck and beg for food!

 

[Ponypoor]

My girls are quite red and some are squatting, I wonder how long before they lay an egg?.

Squatting is usually a couple to few weeks before laying. All my gals started laying about 2-3 weeks after the first squat! But as it’s winter now anything goes!

 

[featherhead007]

It’s been hours since sun up, Jaffar hasn’t said a peep (no cocorico) from him. Two of my feathered friends are inside. Jaffar and Dakota. Sad to say but Dakota is losing feathers now too. The weather is cold and it’s a bad time for them to molt Jaffar is inside, because he needs some TLC. Dakota is in for moral support

 

[ManueB]

Where is she in the tribe(s) order? Her behavior might change when the order changes or there’s some other shift. This competitiveness is what she thinks she has to do now.
Hasn’t @BY Bob seen this kind of change with Aurora?

I have two tribes unfortunately, because the four chicks hatched by Chipie have never been integrated by the original flock. With her hatch mates, there was no hierarchy up to now. Piou-piou was the first to lay and the first that Gastounet mated. Now he's begining to court and mate the two others, and she probably wants to maintain her special status.
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About the influence of winter on pullets beginning to lay, I recently came upon this post and was interested as I had not read something like this before
"The actual length of daylight isn't that important, whether the days are getting longer or shorter is the really important part"
The source of the information isn't mentioned and I don't know the poster's degree of expertise, but it's different from what is usually said that more or less under a certain number of hours of day light a hen will not begin to lay.
I also hope Bernadette has no issue. She certainly looks lovely and healthy in both pictures.

 

[ValarieF]

Its a beautiful day for pics and everyone cooperated

 

[featherhead007]

It’s been hours since sun up, Jaffar hasn’t said a peep (no cocorico) from him. Two of my feathered friends are inside. Jaffar and Dakota. Sad to say but Dakota is losing feathers now too. The weather is cold and it’s a bad time for them to molt Jaffar is inside, because he needs some TLC. Dakota is in for moral support

Jaffar is outside now and won’t shut up!

 

[knoturavggrl]

Its a beautiful day for pics and everyone cooperated
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Beautiful I love the black with white speckles especially!

 

[knoturavggrl]

Jaffar is outside now and won’t shut up!

Is this a case of be careful what you ask for?