Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

Quick question- is Bolt an Easter egger or and Ameracuna? She has green legs and lays olive green eggs. She has Muffs and a beard... I do believe she is a mixed breed- maybe a mix of both?

There isn't much difference between Americauna, Ameracauna, and Easter Egger. Olive Egger is a mix of one of the Blue egg layers crossed with a brown egg layer (genetically speaking). There isn't a breed standard for any of the above, so the Breed names get used all over the place.

 

[bgmathteach]

I have not fixed her beak... I was to trim it but I have no experience on howto do that. She is perfectly fine now. She eats and drinks perfectly fine and overall is a very happy chicken. Thank you for wondering

In the future, if necessary, you can do 1 of two things (or both)
1) GENTLY file with a nail file. only a little bit at a time. This will help smooth it and potentially keep it from splitting further if it is broken unevenly.
2) If it is also cracked, use a bit of superglue on the outside to keep it from splitting further ( it is painful if it splits up into the quick) When doing this, I suggest using a gel super glue as it is easier to control, and be sure to get it only n the beak. Using something to apply it with might be better than squeezing directly onto it, as if she squirms, in your efforts to keep her still, you might squeeze the bottle harder.

There is a 3rd option if they break the beak completely off so can't really eat - and that is make a prosthetic beak, but you would definitely need help attaching it will super glue...and you have to be very careful that you don't get super glue on any exposed quick - so not for the feint of heart.

 

[rural mouse]

10C or 50F yahooo!

Have the chooks outside, no snow left worth talking about! But we are under a rainfall advisory.

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Mr P's tail is beautiful! He's changed so much since you brought him home! Well done!

 

[BY Bob]

Nice but Bob’s best hen ever has him beat!

It's not fair to compare boys and girls combs

 

[ValarieF]

Big News
Someone laid her first egg yesterday.

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Which I then promptly dropped.

Oh well there will be plenty more.

Congrats!

 

[rural mouse]

We definitely need video next time.


That sucks, and I can empathize. Some of mine don’t look quite as bad a ls a few days ago, so hopefully won’t lose too much. Pics below from today.


Welcome!


Pics of the battery might help us give tips on charging.


I agree with what some others have said, either an EE or an OE, most likely OE. Where did you get her from?

Updated frostbite pics
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Very mild. Unless you get another COLD snap, should recover well. Pretty feather markings, BTW.

 

[lightm]

So if this works for general warm human temps it seems. I'll try to remember it. So 10C is 10 degrees less than 20C=68F, so I double that to 20 degrees less for Fahrenheit, so subtract that from 68F and that gives me 48F. Google says it's actually 10C=50F, so that's close enough! Gets a little further away the lower you go though.

Awesome!! I am glad that was useful.

The actual multiplier is 1.8, but using 2 is easy and good enough.

Tax:

 

[rural mouse]

You should have seen all the baby photos


If you ever get chicks you will need to post photos daily - I live vicariously through those who have chicks, it’s unlikely I will have any further chicks

Marty......Mr P......sneaky someones.....

 

[Ponypoor]

coocoo maran

Beauty

 

[ValarieF]

Beauty

I call him my fake barred rock