Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ValarieF]

Fearing wry neck, I have started vitamins thiamine B1 etc......for all the chicks but especially Clyde

 

[Ponypoor]

Happy Tuesday everyone. I saved this one from yesterday. I think I will have at least 2 with floppy combs.
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Awesome photo POW worthy

Its gotten into the 60sF a few times in the last couple of weeks. After -40 in the winter, thats shorts weather.

Agreed 100 percent!

I am just glad everyone can be outside digging in the dirt, sunning themselves.

Oh yes I forgot that - but it was some kind of fancy plastic thing I thought. Plain old wood pallets feel safer to me.
Maybe just for the chickens given the history.
Sorry @TX Chick Noob I forgot the origin of your leg injury.

I have use the wooden one for storing hay on, they work great.

And when your done they make a great bonfire

2fer, taken yesterday while feeding breakfast.View attachment 3507158Noisy flyers, too.

Took this yesterday morning too. Too pretty not to.View attachment 3507161

And 2, who had been hiding from the boys, came to breakfast yesterday (today too) in the middle with everyone else.View attachment 3507160

I love when the geese fly over head here and you can hear the whoosh whoosh whoosh of their wing beats - freaks the chickens out though ha!

That is a gorgeous picture - yes too beautiful not to!

And I am so glad the girls are more comfortable now that the crazy boys are not around.

I also got a picture of Gryffyn and her 2 yesterday who are also 3 weeks old now.
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Curses, do you see what I see, wattles...already starting at 3 weeks old. Dang it....this one was supposed to be one of the 2 pullets I wanted to keep.
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It's sibling, who is giving off pullet vibes still.
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so adorable with the fuzzy legs, wish o had kept a couple of the Brahmas now oh well.

I don’t see a comb on Penne but I am not sure if a pullet or not. So you say 3 weeks? Ok so end of the week I should know - and hey if she doesn’t crow next week then I will be happy!

Looking through the pictures I took, I found my bird’s eye view of the mountains here. View attachment 3507183

wow spectacular! Great photo!

You guys talking about shorts, and I am investigating a Hazmat suit. TICKS! One fell out of my PJs in the bathroom as I was getting ready for bed last night.
I am under siege it appears.

Holy jumping jelly beans! What the H E double L! Is that normal for your area?! Ugh!

I am sorry, ticks are bad already here as well. Between us all we have already gotten 9 off of us that I know of. The dogs are kept on nexguard as it is the best flea and tick pill I have personally found and the amount of dead ones coming off of them is insane. So far have yet to find one on the horses. Actually, I have yet to find one on one of the horses since we had them.

My Vet just called asking how Truly was - the one tick I hauled off her neck the head didn’t release - I tried to dig it out but not sure I got it all. So her neck had a swelling then, the vet said hot compresses, no antibiotics. The compresses and Bute worked it’s magic.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I told you way back when.
Raven was a little chick, that she would be trouble!
Look at her now!

You did, and she is. She earned her right to raise chicks though. I do not know of many first time broody hens who will adopt a chick with only a week of setting on nothing. She did and did her job well. She further impressed me with her October hatch. I was worried she would not sit the whole 3 weeks the 2nd time around but she did and of all the momma's held onto her chicks the longest. She was a hard one to break earlier this year, over 4 weeks, even tearing up her nests daily she was relentless. I had her broke and back to laying for 2 weeks and well, here we are. Staggering the hatches this way when this group hatches, the oldest chicks I have will be 6 and 5 weeks. The current momma's will about be done and it will be time to rehome them.

 

[Ponypoor]

If there were a nexguard for people I would gladly take it faithfully. I cannot stand them and see one and my skin crawls for hours. They do not have to be on me for it to happen. There is lyme in our general area. They reccomend if one actually bites you to remove it and freeze it incase it needs to be sent off to test. So far thankfully none have actually bitten us yet this year, found them on us still crawling.

It’s such an issue here that the general rule now is, if it has been on you less than 24hrs then a 3 day course of prophylactic antibiotics is given. Longer than 24hrs or is a rash appears then the full month long course of treatment.

If it hasn’t attached to you no course of action required.

Tick Tax

Little Penne - girl or boy?

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Awesome photo POW worthy


Agreed 100 percent!

I am just glad everyone can be outside digging in the dirt, sunning themselves.


I have use the wooden one for storing hay on, they work great.

And when your done they make a great bonfire

I love when the geese fly over head here and you can hear the whoosh whoosh whoosh of their wing beats - freaks the chickens out though ha!

That is a gorgeous picture - yes too beautiful not to!

And I am so glad the girls are more comfortable now that the crazy boys are not around.

so adorable with the fuzzy legs, wish o had kept a couple of the Brahmas now oh well.

I don’t see a comb on Penne but I am not sure if a pullet or not. So you say 3 weeks? Ok so end of the week I should know - and hey if she doesn’t crow next week then I will be happy!


wow spectacular! Great photo!


Holy jumping jelly beans! What the H E double L! Is that normal for your area?! Ugh!


My Vet just called asking how Truly was - the one tick I hauled off her neck the head didn’t release - I tried to dig it out but not sure I got it all. So her neck had a swelling then, the vet said hot compresses, no antibiotics. The compresses and Bute worked it’s magic.

I can start seeing males in my lot at 3 weeks at the youngest. Up until this group of youngster's hatched it was pretty much a given that they were at least half Marans. The marans genetics led to early wattle and comb growth on the boys for the most part. This group I will have a little trouble on a lot of them. Twig has been busy, very busy. 3 out of 4 of Momma hen's are his. 5 out of Holly's 6 are now clearly his. I am dealing with something besides the marans straight comb on them. There goes one of my dead give-a-ways. I have not lost all hope on Gryffyns blue chick, but, that early wattle growth is hard to miss. Then we have the comb, it is still little but I see a color change starting. It is probably a boy. Why wouldn't it be though, my lot hatches boys, and I wanted to keep it so it HAS to be a boy.

 

[Ponypoor]

Two fer Tuesday

Two broodies - doing yoga

Two chicks

Two just hanging out

Two of old friends

Two sisters

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

It’s such an issue here that the general rule now is, if it has been on you less than 24hrs then a 3 day course of prophylactic antibiotics is given. Longer than 24hrs or is a rash appears then the full month long course of treatment.

If it hasn’t attached to you no course of action required.

Tick Tax

Little Penne - girl or boy?
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Well, I am not seeing the clues I look for in my chicks. No comb and zooming in I cannot see any early wattles either. Take this with a grain of salt. Different genetics, and in general your flock really does not have large combs or wattles to pass on.

 

[Ponypoor]

Well, I am not seeing the clues I look for in my chicks. No comb and zooming in I cannot see any early wattles either. Take this with a grain of salt. Different genetics, and in general your flock really does not have large combs or wattles to pass on.

Yep very true, she has no tail feathers at all and I like to see how the tails feather out, generally females tend to do this before boys. But not always a sure tell tale sign also.

Guess if she crows I will know

 

[Ponypoor]

Fearing wry neck, I have started vitamins thiamine B1 etc......for all the chicks but especially Clyde

Yes good to give that for sure, how old are they?

 

[BY Bob]

Gosh she is lovely. The light on her tail and through her comb. She is glowing!

I try to find situations where she is lit well and capture that glow. It's one of the many wonders of white chickens.