Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ManueB]

Yea Thats what I was afraid of.

I take my injured chickens back to the coop at night so they get to sleep with the flock. You could either let her stay in a crate permanently in the coop, or pick her up early morning and carry her back on her roost when they are all roosted. That's what I do with my rooster Théo who's limping so he doesn't move around but still sleeps with his ladies.

 

[RoyalChick]

Yay!
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You should submit this one to POW. Maybe also the caption competition, but definitely POW.
Great photo.

 

[Ponypoor]

I take my injured chickens back to the coop at night so they get to sleep with the flock. You could either let her stay in a crate permanently in the coop, or pick her up early morning and carry her back on her roost when they are all roosted. That's what I do with my rooster Théo who's limping so he doesn't move around but still sleeps with his ladies.

I just did that with my tweens, I had them in the hen house overnight, but I didn’t want them in there when the gang became active.

As such I got up at 5am and went out and hauled them out of the nest box and put them in the bin in the main barn, with their brooder plate. It’s really chilly here with frost so I am sure they are feeling the cold.

 

[bgmathteach]

Yay!
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You need to teach 4 of them to cooperate and ride that thing! One for each pedal and two -one each side - for the handle bars. Maybe a 5th on the seat to coordinate everyone, kinda like a coxswain!

 

[rural mouse]

No mugs from me this week. Between gardening and sitting out splitting grapes for the crew, my hands were a little occupied/dirty. I did notice that everyone is in the coop much earlier than before the dingalings went into the freezer. The ladies are much more willing to lounge under the trees. I saw Belladonna dust bathing. Poor girl needs to do a mini moult/moult early this fall to regrow her feathers. Silver sat out under the edge of the olive trees and watched EVERYONE. She wasn't even all that interested in the grapes (of course i went out at a time that most had their crop stuffed full anyway). Full crops slowed down some of the girls, giving Thing more opportunities to get some. Most of the time, goodies like grapes are piunced upon so quickly that if you blink, its gone. She tends to inspect things a bit before grabbing, and with grapes, that means they're gone.

This is why the chokeberry hedge is half bare

Anyway, back to Thing. Yesterday's grapes were thoroughly killed before she ate them....and she got very enthusiastic about grapes.

 

[featherhead007]

You need to teach 4 of them to cooperate and ride that thing! One for each pedal and two -one each side - for the handle bars. Maybe a 5th on the seat to coordinate everyone, kinda like a coxswain!

Don’t be silly. That would be impossible for that to work.

 

[RoyalChick]

It is Monday and here is Eli who is so grumpy that she is not wishing anyone a happy Mugshot Monday!
Her mugshot makes her look much happier than she is!

 

[GregnLety]

We opened the west wall of the garage coops completely because it is steamy because of all the rain and now heat. We put up 6 feet of wire so now everyone can breathe easier hopefully. On my way to Colorado again so I'll get pics from Lety.

 

[knoturavggrl]

We opened the west wall of the garage coops completely because it is steamy because of all the rain and now heat. We put up 6 feet of wire so now everyone can breathe easier hopefully. On my way to Colorado again so I'll get pics from Lety.

Look forward to the pictures. Travel safely!

 

[knoturavggrl]

Mugs from a calmer second outing, I ditched the pen since it cant keep the babies in and just trusted Brownie and myself to keep them safe as they explored. This worked out much better. The biggest danger to them seemed to be one of my cats who was watching them with wayyyy to much interest. I kept a close on him.

Brownie managed to get in a much needed and wanted dustbath for mother’s day. So I would call it a successful outing!