Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ValarieF]

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Saturday Synopsis 5/4-5/10

- By-Bob had a humourous encounter with his Lady Featherington and some sushi - Lady F grabbed a whole sushi chunk and scarfed it back in one glutch down the gullet! His description was hilarious!
He has been super busy at work and could not be a scribe for Aurora on Wednesday.
Hattie is laying again. Link to the picture.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-26608577
Link to Aurora video.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-26608585

-Royal Mouse - snow-backed chicken pics:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-26599807

-Chicory Blue - A few huge eggs!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-26600603

-Valarie took some beautiful photos of her flock.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-26600728

-TX Chicken Noob glow up pics of her chicken.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-26606730

-Lilion a video and great pics of her chickens
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-26604348

- RoyalChick was worried about Eli, who had a very odd-looking poop one day. She was on poop duty the next day, and all seems ok now - maybe something she ate...?
She is also looking into getting some chicks to strengthen her flock. She has been researching breeders in her area; she is keen on getting black-colored hens.
She also continues having Eli and Babs fly onto the rafters to roost at night. Time will tell if that continues!

-Featherhead007 had a bit of a scare when his gateway was opened, and he 'sort of' misplaced 3 of his ladies. Thank you, Jaffar, for saving the day! (Alex, I hope you finally gave him some steak!)
Hen Hen-Rietta has a sore on her foot that Alex is treating - We hope she will be fine.

- RebeccaB posted about her marshmallow chicks roosting, but mama Chiquita wanted them in their nest with her.
(https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-26598534)
Rebecca decided to hatch! Follow the link for details on what is in the incubator.
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Also, here is a link to pics and video of the marshmallow crew
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- Kris had a run-in with an eagle; from what I can gather Sammy got a torn earlobe from attacking the eagle, but Little Sister has a severe wound on her back. Kris is waiting to see what her Husband thinks about the wound
(https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-26598813)
Kris reported that her 'Eagle Girl' seems ok; we will follow this closely to ensure it stays that way.
Kris' Little Sister, who had the run-in with the eagle, is doing fine - yay!

- Micstrachan dropped in to post some fantastic photos of her gals; sorry to hear she is again ill with evil covid. Also, her lovely Little Mill's limp is getting worse, and her belly is swollen.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-26609598
News with Micstrachan is that she has an order in for some chicks end of March/beginning of April - I, for one, can't wait to see them!

- Ponypoor is heading home (yay!), so she will be offline for a few days. She will try to give an update each night.

-Pastel is sick with a cold and home from school, and her pullet laid her first egg to make her feel better. The link is to the egg picture.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-26614381
Willow the pullet that laid the egg link
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-26600515

Some fluffy butt Friday links randomly chosen:
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Thank you for keeping track like this and writing it all up! Much appreciated. I’ve read many of the posts and not all, so found the summary helpful, but even so on the ones I had read, keeping everyone’s adventures straight! Thanks.

 

[featherhead007]

I guess I’m off to Colorado to take Hannah back home. Linda and Paul are watching my house. But I sure miss my pets!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

7 more days until my silkies hatch. I've noticed about half are viable. Feeling better this morning thats why I was up at 1 30 am. Just started raining. Hope the day is not washed out so I can visit my chooks.

I think I am more excited about your silkies hatching then what is in my own incubator. I cannot wait to see pictures of the cute little fuzz balls. I was wondering if you had candled them yet. Were the eggs shipped to you or did you do a local pick up? Everything I've read has told me that if it is shipped eggs sometimes you just have to be happy with a 50% hatch rate.

 

[featherhead007]

The world is overpopulated already!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

So I can 100% confirm that Meeko is one of the new layers. I also told you all that besides Ducky the October girls were sort of a wild bunch. During coop training there were many nights of shrieks, growls hackles raised and attempted biting. Meeko has carried that over into her nest behavior. You never know if a hen is going to calmly allow you to reach under her or bite the dickens out of you until you try. I tried and got the eggs. I also had hackles raised, screamed at and pecked in the process. Yup, we know one new girl who I do NOT want to go broody out of that group.

 

[lightm]

Chickens in the morning
I have talked (complained) a lot about the Math Majors roosting up in the rafters.
I have not posted as much about them coming down.
Here we have the morning landings. One perfect. One not quite so perfect.

I love that Bernie makes room for Eli (and Babs too later).

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Meeko's 2nd egg today at exactly 5 months old. I caught her in the act so I know the speckled egg from yesterday is hers as todays is speckled. I know pullet eggs are tiny, but this is tiny. Chiquita also laid her first egg today after taking her broody break. Look how little. I have it beside Chiquita's egg who lays the smallest in my flock.

After laughing, I had to break out the scale just to see how big it was.

Chiquita's that is about as big as her eggs get. She averages 1.4 usually.

And for fun yesterdays Goose egg, I had yet to weigh hers.

I will give Meeko a month and weigh her eggs again to see how big they end up being. Her momma Squirrel is normally a 2.0 to 2.4 egg layer.

 

[rural mouse]

Twirp has started laying again!

(Hers is the blue egg. Size on the white is Nellie, Blanche, or PITA. Thing was in a box like she's working on laying). Everyone else lays either green or brown eggs except Lark and Indigo who lay SMALL white eggs.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Were the eggs shipped to you or did you do a local pick up? Everything I've read has told me that if it is shipped eggs sometimes you just have to be happy with a 50% hatch rate.

Why does shipping affect hatch rate?