Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ChicoryBlue]

It is funny how one distressed ill chicken can make you not want to discuss them. When Gucci was sick I did not want to log on here and share another failure to save a soul in my charge. It's very hard to be that open and vulnerable. There is no time to experience the joy in the others as the sick one takes all your attention.

I totally understand and respect where Lexicon is at right now. These are for you @Lexicon

 

[RoyalChick]

Eli update
It is time I did a bit of an update on Eli.
Just a reminder of the sequence of events:
- At the end of April Eli had some sort of neurological episode and fell off the roost in the middle of the night. The following day she was unable to walk properly and kept falling over on her head.
- A vet visit confirmed that she had no broken bones and no swelling. And a blood test came back negative for Marek’s and Avian Leukosis.
- Eli retreated to a nest box looking like a very sick chicken.
- Almost immediately she went broody.
- While she is only a couple of days into being broody I move 18 day old chicks out to the Chicken Palace where they are situated right next to Eli’s nest box.
- I assume she won’t accept them as they are quite big and she has been broody only a few days. So I don’t even try.
- At some point broody Eli starts to talk to the chicks through the wall separating them - particularly if one of them sends out a distress call. But she makes no effort to get in and visit them.
- Eventually after 21-25 days Eli stops being broody

And now we come to today.

I have convinced myself that Eli has adopted the chicks.
She spends a lot of time with them. They are six weeks old so pretty independent, but they tend to hang with her.
I don’t know if she thinks she is their mother - I got one short video clip where she seems to call Pooh to have some of the apple core Eli found.
And I think she sometimes calls them to a good spot for digging.
Maybe she just likes hanging with young folk?
It definitely seems that she has a unique relationship with them. Neither of the other big Princesses would welcome being groomed by the little ones.
She does not seem to get aggressive in their defense - though honestly nobody really attacks them as they seem to be accepted as part of the tribe. And they are not really helpless little chicks any more.
It is very cute to observe but quite strange.
Eli has not gone back to roosting - she still sleeps in her nest box - I wonder if she does that to stay close to ‘her babies’. She doesn’t seem to have any neurological issue any more.

 

[bgmathteach]

Hattie in all her Glory?!!
(Here she looks like a Cochin, but I finally uploaded it-- My computer wouldn't let me before.)
Miss Hattie
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I know very terrible, I am sorry if I disgraced her Bob.
I had to alter some of the dimensions to draw her better.

That is a better job than I could do! It is flattering to want to recreate her in a drawing, I am sure @BY Bob (and Hattie) will not be offended.

 

[LhickenChicken]

That is a better job than I could do! It is flattering to want to recreate her in a drawing, I am sure @BY Bob (and Hattie) will not be offended.

Thank you. I shared it with my sister and she said that it is very good.
But... She normally says everything that is bad is good?

 

[notabitail]

What browser are you useing?

Brave on mobile, Pale Moon on desktop with AdBlock Latitude installed.

 

[bgmathteach]

Brave on mobile, Pale Moon on desktop with AdBlock Latitude installed.

So, you installed a bunch of Greek?





I'll pay tax tonight when I have access to my camera!

 

[notabitail]

So, you installed a bunch of Greek?





I'll pay tax tonight when I have access to my camera!

Brave is like Chrome but with privacy stuff.
Pale Moon is a bunch of geek, not Greek, but easy to use if you used Firefox a long time ago.

 

[ValarieF]

Ok I did a bad thing. I put a bunch of Ancona and brown eggs from the new girls in the incubator! MUHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA I will have more chicks!!!!

 

[ValarieF]

Brave is like Chrome but with privacy stuff.
Pale Moon is a bunch of geek, not Greek, but easy to use if you used Firefox a long time ago.

I installed both I love firefox when it was out.

 

[notabitail]

What happens if you ask it to TRWNSLATE it from Techno-geek to Plain English?

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This is soooo uncreative.
@RoyalChick.