Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

Where is everyone?

Look I'm over here

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

She just had a bit of food or something go down the wrong way, they usually resolve it within a few hours if not very soon. Like a human, if she was wheezing, then she was still breathing, so the best course is to let them be and see if it causes her real problems.

Squeezing and massaging her crop won't help that issue and could aspirate her if food comes back up while she's breathing. Squeezing her (like for a heimlich maneuver?) doesn't work in chickens because their skeletal frame is much stiffer than it is in humans. Notice how their cute butts go in and out when they breathe? That's because that is the only place that moves and is part of how they expand and contract their lungs.

Oh. Okay. So she would have been fine if I didn't try to help her?

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Possibly green legs? They don’t stay still long enough for me to really look.
Also a picture of the wonderful treat that @bgmathteach packed for them. It is brilliant. A cored apple with peanut butter on a string.

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That looks green to me.... but, I don't know anything about chickens compared to you all!!

 

[RoyalChick]

So I tried confining them to the coop before roosting. I am kinda regretting interfering as I think there is less runway for them from these rafters unless they fly on to roosts.
I do hope they don’t break their necks coming down.
Ugh. Why did I do this?

 

[ValarieF]

Look I'm over here

 

[rural mouse]

I forgot about eggs to be honest!
I wonder how the dynamics will change if one or both of them start laying before Bernadette?!
It could get complicated.

If they start laying, Bernie may decide to lay.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Fayoumis are native to Egypt. They don't do well with cold. (Or I would have gotten them already).

That's what I thought but with the right coop & runs with no drafts it appears possible. A quick search for this same question shows some on BYC have successfully kept them in Maine & Oregon.

 

[rural mouse]

So I tried confining them to the coop before roosting. I am kinda regretting interfering as I think there is less runway for them from these rafters unless they fly on to roosts.
I do hope they don’t break their necks coming down.
Ugh. Why did I do this?


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Chase them or get them?

 

[rural mouse]

That's what I thought but with the right coop & runs with no drafts it appears possible. A quick search for this same question shows some on BYC have successfully kept them in Maine & Oregon.

They don't like being confined so my decision was to not get them as the cold mixed with staying shut in wouldn't be fair to them in my current set up. If I'm able to thoroughly change things here, I'll reconsider. I think they would do fantastic here in the summer and would be an asset to my tribe.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

That's what I thought but with the right coop & runs with no drafts it appears possible. A quick search for this same question shows some on BYC have successfully kept them in Maine & Oregon.

@rural mouse you're right fayoumas are flighty and want to range. I didn't read how well they thrived in the colder climates!
Bielefelders would be great.