Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BeefQuesoritto]

FWIW, we took the back off so we could put a door in the coop to collect eggs from the outside. We also put a dividing wall down the middle.

I'll have to decide how I want to approach it... My run is open all day so it's nbd for me to just grab from the front. I guess we'll see how it goes. I do need to figure out how I'm gonna put a dividing wall. Maybe canvas and staples?

Here's my adventure with misters in my run:

I hope to get a nice mister that atomizes the water droplets and that I can customize to a point, but I waited too long to order it, so I'm using some cheapo one from walmart. However, came out with some awesome results.

This is the exterior of the run:
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Here's under the shade cloth with misters:
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And here is in the coop with no mist:
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I think once I get this dialed in with the fancy atomizers I got from drip depot, I could see an even better outcome. Probably helps that I have 12% humidity haha!

And here's some butts:


Pretty good start to the week!

 

[featherhead007]

I’m so hungry:
Meally worm treats time

 

[BY Bob]

Thanks! This is my first time being here, I kept on seeing it and I decided that I just HAD to look at it! Here are some pictures of my chickens. And I’ll take a pic of my cockerels later. View attachment 3574124View attachment 3574125View attachment 3574127View attachment 3574126View attachment 3574128View attachment 3574129View attachment 3574128View attachment 3574130View attachment 3574131View attachment 3574132

You have beautiful chickens. I just love that next to last one!

 

[BY Bob]

I need to clean the coop out first thing anyway tomorrow. It is time to enact tough love. Karen and Goose especially are not taking the hint even as we remove hay bales to feed out to the horses. The are just scooting over to a different one. I am cleaning up the coop and locking 4 angry clucky hens in it during the day. I will have to open it back up in the evening so everyone can get in it to roost but they can be rounded back up off their nests for the next few days. I will win this battle with the girls.

Best of luck. Of course there is no place outside of the coop to set a nest. Nope. No place anywhere.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Oh well done!

What you can also do is hold your ear by the tube and and see if you can hear breathing sounds - we do that with horses, if you hear air, you’re into the track. And also with the horses we blow some air of into the tube and smell the return flow - you will know it’s stomach content. Not sure if that is possible with a chicken

Job well done, how often do you do the tube feeding??

Just once yesterday and then I tried again today, but she is not acting well, in fact my guess now is her heart is failing. She did seem to be eating a bit more when foraging today this afternoon, but I mean a tiny bit. She took a little greens - baby's breath - from me, but she alternated between looking fine and trotting with Popcorn a few times to looking tired, and when she stopped to rest she half-closed her eyes. I know she dust-bathed earlier today, because when I checked her at noon she was wonderfully full of dirt. Between 4:30 and 7pm out and about, she just was closing her eyes every time the group stopped to hang and preen. Twice she hung out by me and napped briefly. So when I tried the feeding at 7pm or so what happened there was not good, and really made me think for sure her heart is failing, and the stress of the procedure exacerbated it. Or she's just so skinny she's too weak?

I stopped after about 10-15 ml because she really gave a good wriggle, and with that effort her eyes half-closed, so I immediately got the tube out and it seemed to me her legs failed, she was passing out. I let her down keeping her head and front part supported a little to not push anything in her crop up, she lay sort of on her side, then in 2-3 seconds she was awake and quickly got her feet under her, stayed that way a couple seconds, then stood up. I'm calling the vets tomorrow to see what they think. I hate to travel with her but maybe they can come here on Friday, if she lasts that long.

She pooped a tiny watery poop waiting while I got the tube food ready, so I collected it and got it dissolved in a test tube and got a slide on it before starting the tube feeding. I didn't see anything remarkable.

 

[RoyalChick]

Just once yesterday and then I tried again today, but she is not acting well, in fact my guess now is her heart is failing. She did seem to be eating a bit more when foraging today this afternoon, but I mean a tiny bit. She took a little greens - baby's breath - from me, but she alternated between looking fine and trotting with Popcorn a few times to looking tired, and when she stopped to rest she half-closed her eyes. I know she dust-bathed earlier today, because when I checked her at noon she was wonderfully full of dirt. Between 4:30 and 7pm out and about, she just was closing her eyes every time the group stopped to hang and preen. Twice she hung out by me and napped briefly. So when I tried the feeding at 7pm or so what happened there was not good, and really made me think for sure her heart is failing, and the stress of the procedure exacerbated it. Or she's just so skinny she's too weak?

I stopped after about 10-15 ml because she really gave a good wriggle, and with that effort her eyes half-closed, so I immediately got the tube out and it seemed to me her legs failed, she was passing out. I let her down keeping her head and front part supported a little to not push anything in her crop up, she lay sort of on her side, then in 2-3 seconds she was awake and quickly got her feet under her, stayed that way a couple seconds, then stood up. I'm calling the vets tomorrow to see what they think. I hate to travel with her but maybe they can come here on Friday, if she lasts that long.

She pooped a tiny watery poop waiting while I got the tube food ready, so I collected it and got it dissolved in a test tube and got a slide on it before starting the tube feeding. I didn't see anything remarkable.

 

[bgmathteach]

Crack up at this I really believed it was the chickens talking

Hi WhoDat! Nice to see you again

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Thanks, I feel worry and a creeping sadness. Maybe I'm making much of this, maybe Butters got overheated in the towel wrap. I recall Hazel did a lot of napping when she molted. This is just not adding up the same way.

 

[WhoDatChick]

Hi WhoDat! Nice to see you again

Hi there!! Thank you! Nice to see you too!

 

[bgmathteach]

Mr Penne the little brat….

This morning he actually came into my office/feed room and decided the latch onto my foot/ankle and wouldn’t let go!

He did that last night also to Misty when I was trying to get everyone to bed, he hopped down off the roosting ledge and grabbed her by the back and wouldn’t let go, I needed the broom to get him to stop!

He is a devil compared to Mr Rico and Mr P hasn’t done anything with him yet.

he wanted to mate with you, I am thinking.