Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

This is one reason to always have a cigarette lighter handy. I burn those devils and enjoy hearing the "pop" when they are dead.

One of those torch cigar lighters is great. That flame holds really still.

Just saying....

Popping Tick Tax Toe

 

[BY Bob]

Two old friends briefly reunited to celebrate 2fer Tuesday.

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Wonderful.

 

[GregnLety]

Yes. I am seriously going to look into it.

Spray permethrin on your clothes but not your skin. It's very effective against ticks. You can find spray cans of permethrin in the camping section at Walmart or most sporting stores. I used it when bow hunting in hot weather and it worked well for me.

 

[Ponypoor]

I am trying to reverse engineer 'agitating' in my mind. But I am failing.
I do have a white chicken to share however.
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I am so glad you asked for clarification

 

[featherhead007]

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.

Incredible, another “iron-beak” in training!

 

[Ponypoor]

SHRA

2-fer with littles
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Oh so darling

So whats the final count?

 

[BY Bob]

You lot are making me miss that grape vine we had so much

I'm sorry.

They do make great perches.

 

[BY Bob]

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

No harm but wry neck is actually quite rare. Is there any chance it might have injured itself somehow? Back injuries can present similar to wry neck.

 

[Ponypoor]

I'm sorry.

They do make great perches.

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Playground for chickens

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Tomorrow Eli will have been broody for ten days.
I am going to start a conversation with her about how golf balls are well known to hatch much faster than regular chicken eggs, and so if she doesn’t have a clutch of little putters by the middle of next week it is time to call it a day.
She just went tut-tut-tut and ran straight back to her nest.
She is one crazy hen!
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This photo could use a caption like:
“Broody? Who’re you calling broody? And what’s wrong with that? Broody-Broody-Broody-Broody-Broody-Broody. So there! Yes, I am broody. Wait - where’s my golf ball?”