Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[MaryJanet]

I just realized she was referencing the post I had replied to.

Bob's thread has so many participants now, it's a surprise when something pops up from a few years ago when it was a much smaller community.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Babies are getting bigger and fluffy

Punk hair-do’s look great!

 

[bgmathteach]

You say, the blue will override the grey? Well it worked well in the American civil war, but.., the South shall rise again!

No, she essentially said Blue (grey) were the same thing. United we stand!






Okay - I owe taxes for that for sure:

 

[BY Bob]

I agree on more silkies but I cannot have another roo. If I kept another boy I would have to place one of the current 3. I had enough trouble getting Branch and Bubba to accept Twig. After over 2 months of trying to kill him they are finally co-existing again. Tomorrow I am probably going to have to do something I hate and put down Madea. I have not been able to rehome him and the 3 boys have turned on him. 2 days ago he somehow managed to hurt his leg. I do not know if he got it hung, or if one of the boys really did a number on him but after tonight's inspection I believe it is broken around the joint area. Cage rest might help for a few weeks, but even if he was a pullet cage, rest is not a option right now with 4 broody girls all my isolation spots are taken throughout the day. I have a suspicion one of the boys hurt him. He was starting to go after the girls and was stupid about it causing the hens to call for the boys for backup. I watched him throughout the day today and while he can get around he has to take frequent rest periods. He is a sitting duck for a predator. I made sure he went to bed with a full crop tonight, and will make sure he has a good breakfast in the morning before the deed is done.

I'm so very sorry it has come to this. I know you will do it properly and he will not suffer.

 

[bgmathteach]

I don’t honestly know. She shifts them and of course all the eggs are pretty much identical since they are all Orpingtons. I just lifted her up a bit and peeked in. I couldn’t see all the eggs just a few.

I have heard of people candling and such at this point but idk how they go about doing so without harm. Now, if she had gotten off them today when I was out there I entirely would have been been more inclined to inspect each of them but nope so far as I can tell she hasn’t budged today at all.

That is actually a good thing. She should be sitting tight the last couple of days - just like 'lock-down' in the incubator. They NEED warm momma as they come out of the shell. They are so exhausted, and wet, that they could die without her warmth to help keep them warm and dry them off.

 

[notabitail]

Bob's thread has so many participants now, it's a surprise when something pops up from a few years ago when it was a much smaller community.

How many participants does this thread have?

 

[knoturavggrl]

That is actually a good thing. She should be sitting tight the last couple of days - just like 'lock-down' in the incubator. They NEED warm momma as they come out of the shell. They are so exhausted, and wet, that they could die without her warmth to help keep them warm and dry them off.

Good information, thank you I will bring out the heat plate and put it in my emergency kit out in the coop. She is new at this and also Idk where instincts ends and I really have to poop takes over

She has been a trooper really, I can’t imagine having to sit like that for so long without much food or water. Surprisingly, she has not been mean to me. She makes it clear she would rather I kept my distance but not once has she gone so far as to peck me. She seems to understand I am trying to help her as best I can. I do however get the distinct feeling that if she could roll her eyes at my fussing over her she entirely would!

 

[notabitail]

Good information, thank you I will bring out the heat plate and put it in my emergency kit out in the coop. She is new at this and also Idk where instincts ends and I really have to poop takes over

She has been a trooper really, I can’t imagine having to sit like that for so long without much food or water. Surprisingly, she has not been mean to me. She makes it clear she would rather I kept my distance but not once has she gone so far as to peck me. She seems to understand I am trying to help her as best I can. I do however get the distinct feeling that if she could roll her eyes at my fussing over her she entirely would!

I think my chooks would roll their eyes at me if they could as well. They go into a broody daze where they are running a barebones operating system that only allows them to hover over their eggs without moving, eat, poop, and screech and some other basic functions.

 

[knoturavggrl]

How many participants does this thread have?

Currently, there are approximately 12 - 15 of us that are here quite regularly as work and life allows. But there are at least 10 more that flit in and out on occasion and are definitely wonderful contributors and friends.
Having come across and read through the vast majority of this truly epic thread while laid up with a broken ankle, I have seen how it grows and contracts and then grows again over the years, even though I wasn’t there for most of it.

 

[knoturavggrl]

I think my chooks would roll their eyes at me if they could as well. They go into a broody daze where they are running a barebones operating system that only allows them to hover over their eggs without moving, eat, poop, and screech and some other basic functions.

That is a great description! I have been thinking of it as some sort of trance like state. When I bring food out for her, a watery mash, I have to stick it under her beak till she come back to herself, so to speak, then she will eat a bit and look at me like ohh its you bothering me AGAIN, but at least you brought snacks.