Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Also, a new record number of eggs for me. My girls are working hard and I collected 15 today, including both of the cochins girls eggs.

That’s a lot of eggs! Congratulations

 

[Ponypoor]

Also, a new record number of eggs for me. My girls are working hard and I collected 15 today, including both of the cochins girls eggs.

Awesome
And they didn't eat them I take it!!

 

[Ponypoor]

Nightly Marshmallow roosting report. Once again they played all over the roosts. And once again Chiquita won and got them all down into the tote with her.

Awwww! So cute

 

[featherhead007]

I’m happy to be back. BoPeeps was panicking in the run. So I decided to bring her inside. Nothing out of the ordinary in the coop and run

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Nope, she isn't going broody (or at least not yet) Buuuuuttttt, one of my dark cornish has started plucking some breast feathers out. I'm not sure which one - it isn't obvious yet - but there were a number of feathers in a nest box, and they were DEFINITELY DC feathers based on the coloring and markings!

P.S. Be afraid, @RoyalChick , be very afraid. One or both of the girls may have inherited the 'broody gene'

Really, you came to THIS THREAD to help you resist incubating?

No Wyandotte. Both Eli & Babs are 1/2 EE (dad) & 1/2 Dark Cornish (mom) Same mom and same dad for both - isn't it amazing how different they are having come from the same parents! Eli is built more like Dad (if he were a she), and Babs is built more like mom. But....Babs has the grey of daddy, markings of mom, Eli has more of mom's black, and gets the gold flecks/streaks from mom...but clearly no where near as much, and no grey from dad/watering down of the black.

Oh, a lap chicken in the making!


No worries, she will have you trained in NO TIME You are going to need to sew a small pocket either inside your coat/outer shirt, or on the outside of your regular shirt. Something only maybe 1 - 1.5" deep and a few inches long that can hold a few sunflower seeds without them falling out, but that Eli can still easily get her beak into....and start gently petting her while she searches for and eats the seeds. She will have you trained to bring out sunflower seeds every time you come out!!!!



She is an absolute beauty!

Hmmm...this means that they will need to do this for every generation. So, while it is a good thing, it also will mean a perpetual expense....and hatcheries will initially have to incubate the same amount of eggs as before to get just pullets (so only 50% or, actually less as some never hatch anyways - hatching), AND will need a few of the non-edited hens for a few roos to keep a general line going and for people that do want a rooster.

Wish they could just adjust the ratio so the hen would hatch say 80% pullets and 20% cockerels (or maybe 90/10???)

My experience is that some of my older hens start laying large, double yolk eggs. I have very rarely had a pullet lay one, and when they did it seems to be a one-off thing. However, I've had older hens lay double yolkers when they started back up laying after the winter...until heavy lay/flush of spring...and others that would lay some for a few weeks - maybe every-other egg - until they 'settled down' again. Then, a few who just layed a double yolker 1-2 times a week from then on out. Again, always my older hens.

Nope, don't fill in the old nest....mess it up so there in really nothing resembling a nest there anymore. (Think: wild animal ravaged nest and stole eggs....so not a safe place to lay.)

Ah yes. I did that before I even saw this. I ruffled the hay around and on top of the nest. I also saw Willow laying in one of the new boxes, but not the one with the eggs in it. No eggs yet though.

 

[Ponypoor]

I would appreciate this, I'm 40 pages behind and for the past two days have been trying to catch up!

Ponypoor you're already good at it!

You did a great job with it, RC!

How does adding another post on Sunday change the thread....I don't understand what you mean here, thanks in advance!

I am keeping track for this week - and will post next Sunday all the 'chicken news' on the thread. eg: Kris' eagle attack; the marshmallows flying skills; etc.

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Tomorrow I get to do something very fun to help educate children on farm animals. I am going to an elementary school with the other FFA Officers at my school. I am the Reporter. I believe that the school is a special education school (Sped, although I hate saying sped, and I normally call them Special Ed.) We will be bringing two pigs, a few goats, a few rabbits and chickens. I, of course, am going to choose to educate children about the chicks, if that is what we are doing. I am very eggcited to be able to have this opportunity, and I am hoping that I am going to be able to let the children hold the birds, with me giving the birds any extra support. I had young children over at my place over the weekend, and I helped them hold my birds. I think that they really enjoyed it. Hopefully my Adviser brings an ACUTUAL Golden Laced Wyandotte... It is a real one, not a Barnevelder, I promise!!

 

[Ponypoor]

I am already terrified of the whole broody thing!
I have the sunflower seeds in a small cardboard container that I tuck in between by jacket and shirt when I sit outside. I wanted to use a little zip lock baggie in my pocket and dole then out by hand but with Bernie around it just isn’t safe. She still chooses not to distinguish between the seeds and the fingers. She is a big girl and when she tries to remove a finger IT HURTS!
I need to figure a safe way for any kids who visit to feed them - hand feeding the chickens is always a big hit, but I really think Bernie could remove a small finger.
Anyway, I have this container and I can hold it out to the Princesses and then tuck it back under my jacket. And that is where Eli finds it. She is so cute burrowing into my jacket. I love it!

Awwww! that is so cute! You sure do have a lap chicken there in that case!

Is this what they mean by ‘belly up to the bar’?

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Was she trying to leap up on the window sill? She sure is a pretty hen isn't she? How many eggs a week is she laying now... ?

Nightly Marshmallow roosting report. Once again they played all over the roosts. And once again Chiquita won and got them all down into the tote with her.

Awww - so sweet that they still listen to their mum - love it!

I’m happy to be back. BoPeeps was panicking in the run. So I decided to bring her inside. Nothing out of the ordinary in the coop and run

I wonder what had in such a tizzy? But sure am glad you're back safe and sound

I am keeping track for this week - and will post next Sunday all the 'chicken news' on the thread. eg: Kris' eagle attack; the marshmallows flying skills; etc.

In the mean time if anyone wants the 'rough draft' to get a feel for what's up you can PM me

Tomorrow I get to do something very fun to help educate children on farm animals. I am going to an elementary school with the other FFA Officers at my school. I am the Reporter. I believe that the school is a special education school (Sped, although I hate saying sped, and I normally call them Special Ed.) We will be bringing two pigs, a few goats, a few rabbits and chickens. I, of course, am going to choose to educate children about the chicks, if that is what we are doing. I am very eggcited to be able to have this opportunity, and I am hoping that I am going to be able to let the children hold the birds, with me giving the birds any extra support. I had young children over at my place over the weekend, and I helped them hold my birds. I think that they really enjoyed it. Hopefully my Adviser brings an ACUTUAL Golden Laced Wyandotte... It is a real one, not a Barnevelder, I promise!!

That is wonderful, good for you. Let us know how it all went. I am sure you will be egg-cellent at this!

 

[RoyalChick]

Awwww! that is so cute! You sure do have a lap chicken there in that case!


Was she trying to leap up on the window sill? She sure is a pretty hen isn't she? How many eggs a week is she laying now... ?


Awww - so sweet that they still listen to their mum - love it!


I wonder what had in such a tizzy? But sure am glad you're back safe and sound


In the mean time if anyone wants the 'rough draft' to get a feel for what's up you can PM me


That is wonderful, good for you. Let us know how it all went. I am sure you will be egg-cellent at this!

I think Bernie is laying roughly every other day.

 

[Ponypoor]

Good night all...
Checked the kiddos earlier and noted that one again they are all over the place roosting.... tonight its Fluffy, Curly and Mr P who are reaping the benefit of the nest box tops!

Henny Penny is roosting on the shelf, which is her preferred spot.