Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Aurora is quite busy today with everyone locked into the complex. There is a lot of order to keep. I do not know if she will get to posting today at this point.

No worries Your Majesty - we will wait in anticipation

Tomorrow is another day

 

[RoyalChick]

I love this. That is surely what Aurora would do. I've been watching her chase Hattie in a circle for 10 minutes now.

@ChicoryBlue - you may well be right. The reason I think it might be that she wants a friend is that during the day a lot of the heat has gone out of their interactions and they spend 80% of daylight hours together without any chasing.

 

[RoyalChick]

Exactly. It is not necessary to go all the way up to the rafters.

I am really worried about tacking stuff up in case they pull the tacks out.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

There seems to be a subgroup of enablers emerging here!
I think part of the reason I am not in favor of feathered legs is that I really like the look of the snakeskin boots. With Bella I was besotted with her black snakeskin boots and both Babs and Eli have a similar style in green. I can't imagine it being better than that!

I was out after some pictures and this girl once again drew my attention to her. She is going to be a hard one to let go when it is time to place the pullet's I do not plan on keeping in a few months. Frankly if she stays much longer I may not let her go and keep her for Ducky's companion. If you cannot tell by her butterball shape she is my only cochin mix chick that I have managed to hatch out. She is also one of the ones that nearly froze to death that dreaded day. I swear if I were within a hours distance of @RoyalChick I would put her in a box, stick a bow on top and leave her in front of her coop door. This young chunky monkey is going to be too heavy one day to fly up to the rafters with the math majors. She would have to sleep next to Bernie.

 

[Ponypoor]

I was out after some pictures and this girl once again drew my attention to her. She is going to be a hard one to let go when it is time to place the pullet's I do not plan on keeping in a few months. Frankly if she stays much longer I may not let her go and keep her for Ducky's companion. If you cannot tell by her butterball shape she is my only cochin mix chick that I have managed to hatch out. She is also one of the ones that nearly froze to death that dreaded day. I swear if I were within a hours distance of @RoyalChick I would put her in a box, stick a bow on top and leave her in front of her coop door. This young chunky monkey is going to be too heavy one day to fly up to the rafters with the math majors. She would have to sleep next to Bernie.
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If you can wait till I drive home in the spring I can drop her off

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Sally
Today has been a rollercoaster ride with my poor old Sally; the woman where I keep my horses when I am away, told me last night Sally wasn't acting right. She wasn't eating, and was just standing there.

This morning she still hadn't eaten and wasn't acting right. I asked them to call the Vet to come on out. Well things went from bad to catastrophic; she was doing 'head pressing' where horses press their heads into the wall, and she freaked out and tried to crash through the stall bars, in fact her head went through the bars and the bars had to be cut to get her free.

The Vet called me asking if she had a Rabies vaccine (YES! Always get rabies - it's a $10 shot which not only protects the horse but YOU and your family - rabies = death). The neurological symptoms she was displaying could be rabies, brain tumor, stroke..... So with Rabies cleared up and with no other thing he could find wrong with her, it was decided that the most humane thing would be to put her down. It would have done no good to try to get her in a trailer to go to the Vet College - that would have ended badly I am sure, I have seen horses freaking out in a trailer - not good. At her age also, she could have had a stroke, or even a tumor. Why let her suffer? and she was a danger to those around her, crashing around trying to bash through things

So my poor old Sally is no more. One needs to have nerves of steel to have kids and pets


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I am so sorry, I cannot begin to imagine the heartbreak of loosing one you have had so long. I've lost dogs and cats and chickens which can leave a person gutted. I know as long as we have our horses one day as well I will have to face that pain. You did the right thing by her by letting her go before she hurt someone or herself even more.

 

[GregnLety]

I am really worried about tacking stuff up in case they pull the tacks out.

Maybe use roofing tacks with washers. They hold pretty good. 1 inch or longer roofing tacks won't pull out easily.

 

[RoyalChick]

I was out after some pictures and this girl once again drew my attention to her. She is going to be a hard one to let go when it is time to place the pullet's I do not plan on keeping in a few months. Frankly if she stays much longer I may not let her go and keep her for Ducky's companion. If you cannot tell by her butterball shape she is my only cochin mix chick that I have managed to hatch out. She is also one of the ones that nearly froze to death that dreaded day. I swear if I were within a hours distance of @RoyalChick I would put her in a box, stick a bow on top and leave her in front of her coop door.
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She is gorgeous. No flying up to the rafters for that lady!


You triggered a childhood memory - my mother was a true crazy cat lady (well me too really). It became known in the neighborhood and it was not unusual to open the front door and find a box of kittens dumped on the step!

 

[RoyalChick]

Maybe use roofing tacks with washers. They hold pretty good. 1 inch or longer roofing tacks won't pull out easily.

I will have some (tall) guys around the place tomorrow - we will figure what to do.
Bernie did not try to fly up this evening. She looked longingly up there but settled quite fast in her solo spot.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Have you considered a liquid calcium supplement added to their water?

I didn't know there was such a thing! How does the dosing work? I'll have to research it. I have two water sources, a nipple waterer and a heated bowl.

Today we got the first intact egg of the year! Could be Peanut's, she was doing a bit of wailing around noon today, and wandering toward the porch and coop. It is the long-ish shape she's laid before.