Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Mama needs to integrate too....the rest know she's there. I'd let them work things out. She's not really going to roost with the babies until she's fairly comfortable with the environment. If she wants to take the babies into the coop, I'd be inclined to provide some extra shelter where she wants to take them, but otherwise let them sort things out. She'll merge better with the others. Once she's settled in with them, working on taming her (and babies) can start happening. She's not used to the level of attention you provide, so it's going to make her more nervous. "Ignoring" her while working with the others will give her space to see how the other respond to you and give her time to work out her position with them.

Edit: you're taming a "wild" animal. Take things SLOWLY, at HER pace. Spooking her will reset any progress you've made.

Response to your Edit, so you have met my ex wife “wild animal “!

 

[Ponypoor]

Well that's sad. Hugs to Reenie.

She is a sweetie otherwise, and likely the least trouble of all of them. She has lucked out coming here, and she knows it

 

[Ponypoor]

These feathered creatures are taxing my patience. They spend all day in my yard, and probably spend the night in the back, by the coop. I may as well just consider them my own. But my birds are tame! (Not these birds)

So start taming them, food is the way to get them in you good books.

Scratch grain and talk to them while they eat. They will start to know you’re the source of good things

 

[featherhead007]

Update: couldn’t find any of them when I locked the coop . They must have gone through the fence and headed back home.
Dakota is staying near Jaffar on his perch tonight. I guess she needs protection from the other birds. It’s sad that they still pick on her (Like some unwanted outcast)
Tax: just Jaffar on his perch

 

[featherhead007]

Good night my friends. I’m going to bed early tonight. Long day tomorrow.

 

[Ponypoor]

Good night my friends. I’m going to bed early tonight. Long day tomorrow.

Catch you in the morn. FYI glad your thinking of accepting mam and babies - they will thrive with you.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Supposedly they do not. It has been bred out of them. I am hoping that @RebeccaBoyd other hens will teach them how to go broody.

Well, we will have to see. Buff orps are supposed to be broody. Butter is almost 3 and has not went broody. Siri the other remaining buff has yet to either. The 2 Cinnamon Queens I have so far have not gone broody either and they are not supposed to. I cannot believe I am saying it but I do hope one of them goes broody. They are smart and I love a smart momma hen.

 

[Ponypoor]

Well, we will have to see. Buff orps are supposed to be broody. Butter is almost 3 and has not went broody. Siri the other remaining buff has yet to either. The 2 Cinnamon Queens I have so far have not gone broody either and they are not supposed to. I cannot believe I am saying it but I do hope one of them goes broody. They are smart and I love a smart momma hen.

They would be so beautiful with babies following them

 

[Ponypoor]

So I am just surfing here on BYC and came across someone’s thread, and they have over 39,000 pages!

Way more than bobs 14,875!

 

[ValarieF]

Maybe I might need to build another coop?

Coop Hotel lol