Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

I thought they had fainted.

I called my niece in a panic! She laughed and told me they were sunbathing! What did I know with my first chicks!

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh foot stools - what a good idea - I have a lot of plastic little stools I use outside to sit or stand on. I will put a few of those around.
I need to put the fire escape in place - I may do that later today or maybe tomorrow. Remember mine are high up so they need a safe way of getting back up into the brooder box. I built what I call the fire escape with a series of ladders they can scamper up.
Or they can just fly straight to the top. Their choice!

They will have no problem flying up there in no time! At 2 weeks (last well hahaha) they were flying up on to all sorts of things!

Oh I cannot wait to see pics of them roaming like little t-Rex

 

[notabitail]

Baby chicks- How am I going to get them home alive?

I am at Peavey Mart right now (tsc in the US) and they have light sussex, brown leghorn, barred plymouth rock, and some leghorns and something else. I am getting 4 plymouth rock chicks
I've got a problem however they only provide a box and NO food or water. It's really hot (28 c) and I don't want them to die. I am going to buy a waterer, and I have a feeder at home, and I'm also picking up chick starter.
But they are most likely going to die of *maybe* heat exhaustion, because my car is dark blue.
Anyways I am really excited to pick up my box of peepers.

Buy some bottled water. Get some leghorns as well

 

[Ponypoor]

Aww, Thanks! They are 7 little soft marshmallows!

They sure are cute

 

[Ponypoor]

I have outdone myself with making breakfast today! Yummy wow it’s delicious!
Not complicated, seafood salad with crab, red onions, mushrooms, chopped tomatoes, cucumber slices, feta cheese, and cabbage. Topped with Catalina dressing.
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That sounded good, and that’s a lovely fluffy butt

 

[notabitail]

Wow that’s a bad eye peck! Did you see a dr? My big worry was whatever germs the little Pecker introduced to my eye! All that sh!t they are pecking around in! Horses, chickens, barn swallows….

Philomena was trying to pick my nose. She stuck her beak in there. .
I hope your eye gets better. Philomena was thinking about eating mine. She decided to dig in my hair.

 

[Ponypoor]

Well, it was a flurry of completely unnecessary panic on my part this morning so when I lifted Brownie off the nest I think I counted 6 fully fluffed up chicks which would leave 3 to go. I was just so stinking relieved to see alive chicks under there that I don’t trust my counting 100% and Brownie went RIGHT back to them and glared at me she looked to be saying: I JUST got them settled human!!! She didn't give me much time to look .

She’s an awesome mama in that case and she trusts you.

 

[Ponypoor]

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So many dandelions this year! I should have taken a picture last week before i mowed.
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Alinta making prints
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It was a buzz of activity here today with the sun finally out and the neighbours bees buzzing around they were very loud!

I have one of those foot print photos - someone must have shaken the sand off themselves

 

[Ponypoor]

Is it possible these littles don't want any heat? It is only 50 degrees out there and they haven't gone under their little warming plate once. I really hope it isn't because they haven't figured out how to find it. I have tried showing them but they yell at me!

Yep mine do the same thing, I throw handfuls of feed under their plate to entice them under there - they run under them back out. More fun eating spiders I guess!

 

[Ponypoor]

I will not mention how many pictures it took to get a somewhat accurate size comparison of the chicks. They would not be still and simply getting to be next too each other was almost too much to ask.

Gryffyns chicks. The Blue one is a cochin x marans and the black one is marans x silkie.
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Goose's chicks
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Oh that Cochin x is lovely

And glad to see you chicks also have huge full crops - I was worried mine were over eating.