Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Rain, sleet, sun repeat...
40f daytime temps down to freezing tonight and expecting 16° thursday night.
A summer twofer
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Ran errands today. Was sitting in the target parking lot listening to the last few minutes of my book when I looked up to see an unexpected sight
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Awwwww! I would name her Mary

 

[BY Bob]

Thanks, everyone. Lucky is still with us (barely). There is a storm coming, so I just spent the last hour putting the tarps back up so it’s not so windy in the run. Despite these efforts, sometimes the wind will flap the overhead tarp and they’ll all run into the coop. I put Lucky in the coop to get her out of the wind, and she has friends around her. Honestly, I don’t think she’ll move from that spot on the floor unless I move her. I think what I’ll do, is after all the others go to bed, I’ll move her up onto a shelf with a heater where she can’t get pooped on. That way she’ll be closer to her friends instead of on the floor by herself. I doubt she’ll make it through the night.

She is so lucky to have spent her life with you. You are so thoughtful.

 

[BY Bob]

Does anyone on here have some experience with seramas? I am considering getting some but I want to make sure they are a good choice for my flock. I have some bantam silkies and also some friendly larger breeds too. I live in San Diego so I don’t think the cold would be much of a problem for them other than on colder winter nights where I could probably just bring them inside. If any problems arise with the smaller and larger chickens my coop is split in half with a door, and I could keep the bantys on one side and the larger ones on the other side (both sides are large enough for plenty of chickens and each have nesting boxes too). Are Seramas hard to sex at a young age? I’m don’t want anymore roosters, so maybe if I got them when they were adults? Any feedback is appreciated!

I do not have any experience with seramas. Hopefully someone here does.

 

[Ponypoor]

Hello everyone,

Been playing the catching-up-this-thread game. Congratulations to Bernie @RoyalChick Sorry @GregnLety about your sweet fat lady's passing. Congratulations to @Ponypoor and @knoturavggrl on getting brahamas. Congratulations to @TX Chick Noob on getting chicken time. I loved Rebecca's videos. I am sure I have missed lots of important events.

Chicken math has gotten to us. (No, it is more like we are fed up with city and its anti-chicken attitude). We are going to buy land and be farmers!!?? A new adventure?? For now, the plan is to buy land 30 minutes away, live in a trailer, sell our current house, and start to build a house in new land. And we will have LOTS OF chickens. Yummy yummy. We will still be working fully, so no, not farmers, but I will be starting a permaculture dream on my land.

I have no pictures, but I do have a precious broody video from last year, which seems very appropriate for spring.

I hope everyone is having a good night.

Oh congratulations! How wonderful for you and your flock! And you can give your broodies some chicks to raise or even get a Roo and hatch eggs! Oh I will look forward to reading about your adventure

 

[Ponypoor]

What a video? But what if the other owl is a girl too and the eggs are not fertile? If she can't tell the gender at all.

Lozzy wrote a reply to me, the egg was not viable too bad owlettes are adorable.

 

[BY Bob]

Thank you. When I put her on the shelf, she realized how close she was to her favorite roost, and surprised me and jumped up to it. However, she was very wobbly, and could not keep her balance. She kept starting to fall off, so I moved her and her heating pad over to the opening to the second level coop. The floor of the coop is at the same level as the roosts in the main coop. I put her in the doorway right beside Little Mill. She has a low watt heating pad under her and a light towel over her. I’d say there’s zero chance she’ll make it through the night. I’ll keep checking on her and I’ll probably take her out when she goes. I only worked a half day at work today and brought her out in the sunshine for a bit. She also heartily ate some scrambled egg. At least she got to experience those two little bits of comfort in the midst of her suffering.

 

[BY Bob]

Best. Hen. Ever

I cannot disagree.

 

[Ponypoor]

Does anyone on here have some experience with seramas? I am considering getting some but I want to make sure they are a good choice for my flock. I have some bantam silkies and also some friendly larger breeds too. I live in San Diego so I don’t think the cold would be much of a problem for them other than on colder winter nights where I could probably just bring them inside. If any problems arise with the smaller and larger chickens my coop is split in half with a door, and I could keep the bantys on one side and the larger ones on the other side (both sides are large enough for plenty of chickens and each have nesting boxes too). Are Seramas hard to sex at a young age? I’m don’t want anymore roosters, so maybe if I got them when they were adults? Any feedback is appreciated!

Bantams cannot be sex checked as babies, but I am told there is a genetic test to check gender.

I would suggest getting older birds so you know the sex if you don’t want any more Roos

 

[Sunshinechickies]

Bantams cannot be sex checked as babies, but I am told there is a genetic test to check gender.

I would suggest getting older birds so you know the sex if you don’t want any more Roos

Ok thanks ! I think i’ll get some older ones or get some other breeds. I’m looking to expand my flock !

 

[BY Bob]

Hello everyone,

Been playing the catching-up-this-thread game. Congratulations to Bernie @RoyalChick Sorry @GregnLety about your sweet fat lady's passing. Congratulations to @Ponypoor and @knoturavggrl on getting brahamas. Congratulations to @TX Chick Noob on getting chicken time. I loved Rebecca's videos. I am sure I have missed lots of important events.

Chicken math has gotten to us. (No, it is more like we are fed up with city and its anti-chicken attitude). We are going to buy land and be farmers!!?? A new adventure?? For now, the plan is to buy land 30 minutes away, live in a trailer, sell our current house, and start to build a house in new land. And we will have LOTS OF chickens. Yummy yummy. We will still be working fully, so no, not farmers, but I will be starting a permaculture dream on my land.

I have no pictures, but I do have a precious broody video from last year, which seems very appropriate for spring.

I hope everyone is having a good night.

That kind of sounds like @Kris5902 without the in-laws.