Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ChicoryBlue]

The Video in Question

For those who haven't seen it this is the video that YouTube took down. I am trying to get YouTube to allow me to download it as I can't find it anywhere. They are not responding to me. Since I can't download it I recorded it onto my phone. The quality is awful but you will get the idea.

In the video Aurora is trying to advance past Hattie into place number 2 in the pecking order behind Lilly. Hattie is having none of it. There were 3 fights that day. I broke up 2 of them and then decided that I needed to let them finish.
You can see Lilly finishing it off herself. Lilly tried to break it up a couple of times but once Aurora injured her leg Lilly made certain Aurora knew her place.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3x66ycz4cr8zhlo/20230330_145356_1.mp4?dl=0

Please let me know if you have any issues getting the link to work.

OK this morning on my PC it worked fine. All the "sign in" stuff was off to the side and irrelevant. I saw those blue loading lines, then they disappeared, so I think the previous experience on my iPad with the lines was a wifi issue.

FYI the video showed sideways in protrait, as if Dropbox doesn't want to display landscape videos maybe.

I am so glad you filmed this. I found it very educational then and it still is, especially now that I am more familiar with my bunch. It's an important historical record for your tribe. This time I was watching Lilly and it is very interesting.

Once in a great while Hazel (#2) and Butters (#3) get into it very briefly, and only to the level of a jump, some flaps and walking away with hackles up.

 

[Ponypoor]

Naked neck. From a distance he looks like a turkey in size. He dwarfs Cholo, our Lavender Orpington rooster.View attachment 3449915

Wow what a specimen! Gorgeous

I am constantly amazed at the vast variety in poultry (excluding those poor totally bald chickens in Israel ), so many lovely animals.

 

[BY Bob]

OK this morning on my PC it worked fine. All the "sign in" stuff was off to the side and irrelevant. I saw those blue loading lines, then they disappeared, so I think the previous experience on my iPad with the lines was a wifi issue.

FYI the video showed sideways in protrait, as if Dropbox doesn't want to display landscape videos maybe.

I am so glad you filmed this. I found it very educational then and it still is, especially now that I am more familiar with my bunch. It's an important historical record for your tribe. This time I was watching Lilly and it is very interesting.

Once in a great while Hazel (#2) and Butters (#3) get into it very briefly, and only to the level of a jump, some flaps and walking away with hackles up.

I noticed the landscape issue. I will need to figure that out and rotate it appropriately. I'm glad you could get in to watch it well.

 

[Ponypoor]

OK this morning on my PC it worked fine. All the "sign in" stuff was off to the side and irrelevant. I saw those blue loading lines, then they disappeared, so I think the previous experience on my iPad with the lines was a wifi issue.

FYI the video showed sideways in protrait, as if Dropbox doesn't want to display landscape videos maybe.

I am so glad you filmed this. I found it very educational then and it still is, especially now that I am more familiar with my bunch. It's an important historical record for your tribe. This time I was watching Lilly and it is very interesting.

Once in a great while Hazel (#2) and Butters (#3) get into it very briefly, and only to the level of a jump, some flaps and walking away with hackles up.

Yes, I haven’t had any issues accessing any of them. And yes the aspect was off (portrait vs landscape), but it wasn’t an issue at midnight I just turned my phone a bit as I was laying here

I saw nothing untoward with that video, but I did notify YT about a few videos that I couldn’t believe people found funny - like the one were a cat kept swatting a poor hen on then face- sheesh!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

oh, my gosh.....the fuzzy legs are so darn cute!

And, I hate to say this, but one of the black ones is either extremely curious....or is a boy.....(which, probably means 'boy', as at this stage....that behavior....)

And that light colored one....so big and fluffy/fuzzy, nice wide stance (but not splayed!) S/he is going to be a big, cute, fluffy...then loose feathery, soft chicken!

That blue one, everything in me is telling me to keep it. If I knew for sure right now it was a pullet it would never leave. She, because well, wishful thinking, is half marans and half cochin. Looking at it I'm looking at a blue version of baby Perdita. It also does not help that grandma just named her Blue Bonnet. As a chick Perdita was a standout due to the extremely fuzzy legs that indicated her cochin lineage in a clutch of feathered leg chicks. Around 5 weeks old I really started looking at her as she was just blossoming into a lovely young lady. 7 weeks old I knew then if I kept her much longer she would never leave. She still does not like me touching her, but I do every chance I get. She is so fluffy and her feathers have the satin feel of the marans feathers.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

13 out of the 19 eggs have hatched so far. I have 11 now moved into the brooder. The weak chick is a little stronger but not out of the woods just yet. It is now out of the bowl and it tries to stand and move around. I think it can overcome the initial not fully absorbed yolk sack. I'm now worried about 1 of it's legs. I am monitoring it closely. If it does indeed have a leg issue I will have to make a hard decision later tonight. I do not want it to suffer.

 

[RoyalChick]

Yes, I haven’t had any issues accessing any of them. And yes the aspect was off (portrait vs landscape), but it wasn’t an issue at midnight I just turned my phone a bit as I was laying here

I saw nothing untoward with that video, but I did notify YT about a few videos that I couldn’t believe people found funny - like the one were a cat kept swatting a poor hen on then face- sheesh!

You are reacting the same way I am.
I never watch YouTube videos except from BYC but I looked at a few and reported them. I want to deluge them with reports!

 

[bgmathteach]

That blue one, everything in me is telling me to keep it. If I knew for sure right now it was a pullet it would never leave. She, because well, wishful thinking, is half marans and half cochin. Looking at it I'm looking at a blue version of baby Perdita. It also does not help that grandma just named her Blue Bonnet. As a chick Perdita was a standout due to the extremely fuzzy legs that indicated her cochin lineage in a clutch of feathered leg chicks. Around 5 weeks old I really started looking at her as she was just blossoming into a lovely young lady. 7 weeks old I knew then if I kept her much longer she would never leave. She still does not like me touching her, but I do every chance I get. She is so fluffy and her feathers have the satin feel of the marans feathers.

Keep it! put it under a broody with 1 or 2 others!
(can't have a sole chick!) I know I am enabling at the moment....but what is the point of having chickens if you can't keep offspring of your desired parents? Is it goose or Perdita that is Branche's girl? You HAVE to keep a Branch baby, too!

 

[bgmathteach]

13 out of the 19 eggs have hatched so far. I have 11 now moved into the brooder. The weak chick is a little stronger but not out of the woods just yet. It is now out of the bowl and it tries to stand and move around. I think it can overcome the initial not fully absorbed yolk sack. I'm now worried about 1 of it's legs. I am monitoring it closely. If it does indeed have a leg issue I will have to make a hard decision later tonight. I do not want it to suffer.

Is it a splayed leg type issue....or a more serious leg issue? If it is a maybe splay leg issue, can you put the chick in a shot type glass (glass were bottom of glass is appropriate width for legs to be correctly aligned) for a couple short periods each day? That, I have found, works t5he best of anything I've tried for splay-leg!

 

[bgmathteach]

It also does not help that grandma just named her Blue Bonnet

She named her after MARGARINE? (fake butter!!!)