Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Attempting to get a good shot of NellieView attachment 3660140She's gone active again, so feeling pretty good
View attachment 3660139Tail has a ways to go, but she's got the weather vane shape back.


@RoyalChick I remembered for you

Spoiler: Maizie

View attachment 3660141Maizie, on the other hand is miserable and both Belladonna and Primula aren’t much better (they're staing in the coop, but got some of today's sardines)

A mountain climbing hen

 

[Ponypoor]

Update on the Story situation and whole hearted thank yous to everyone who chimed in with advice!!

Story seems completely recovered and is walking normally. I never found any injury that was visible so I have to assume it was muscle pull or something along those lines. After a 3 nights inside and off the roosts he is right as rain.

To address the roosting issue I couldn’t move that dang ladder out by myself it’s really in there and in a rather awkward place and I do not have help right now, my husband has been working alot. So, I decided to run an experiment.

I have one long roosting bar like 4 ft long that not one chicken uses. I think because its about 1” lower then the rest of the bars.
So I took a 3” diameter pipe (pvc) we had laying around and stuck it above the offending unused 2x4 and drilled holes in it and attached it securely. This means that the pipe is now approximately one inch above the rest of the roosting area and its farther from the ladder. I put peanut butter and scratch in various places along the bar and waited till dark.

I didn’t expect this to work honestly but it totally did! When I went out everyone was rearranged and new spots had been claimed and no one was on the ladder at all.

So, I will keep checking on em for a few more nights before declaring victory.

Some pics just because:

Molting Doodle
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Oddly “printtd” egg that is pretty cool looking:
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Great idea.

That is a beautiful egg

 

[ChicoryBlue]

No blood, and relative calm has prevailed for the last two mornings!
Here's Friday night

You can see the sweatjacket

The door opened early, set that way just in case. Nobody was anxious to leave. Also no pecking or any trouble really!

After some time Popcorn and Hazel cautiously go out to the porch and assess.

And a Spud wants to see but hangs back

But somebody ventured out once Popcorn jumped down, I think that's Hazel getting ready to go

She got pushed back in however

However, the one upset time was after their breakfast, when Popcorn went back into the coop. Sometimes they take an after-breakfast rest in there, or maybe she had noticed the sweatjacket and needed to investigate. I heard her suddenly screaming angrily, and heard knocking, scuffling sounds hitting the coop walls. I ran around and opened the back. She was attacking and fighting the poopy sweatjacket, and was really upset. It did look odd, all rumpled and twisted. I quickly grabbed it up and got it out of there. Popcorn left, but still vocalizing, and had to blow off some steam so she chased some surprised Spuds. I called her and started rustling the grass and leaves outside the run and turned over some stones for her to find worms (she got one). That helped and she calmed down.

@Ponypoor @bgmathteach

 

[Ponypoor]

Bernie might surprise you. You could end up with a power couple who keep everyone in line OR ELSE....

Ya like Marty and Mr P - the little holy terror gave me a good bit again, I snuck up on Mr P, grabbed him and all H E double L broke loose! He screamed like a banshee, and Marty ran over and grabbed my hand and wouldn’t let go, all the whole flogging me Ol’ Momma Hen style.

All I wanted to do was give him his final spray for his creepy crawlies!

 

[Ponypoor]

Went adventuring yesterday to try and see the eclipse. We finally found a few tiny breaks in the clouds right at the peak. There were also mules View attachment 3660204View attachment 3660205View attachment 3660208

Oh my gosh!!! I love mules if I wasn’t old I would get a mule next

 

[Ponypoor]

Sylvie has moved the fake eggs into the middle box so she can sit on them and still see out.
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Ya need a Roo I tell ya, a lovely speckles butt suspect

 

[RoyalChick]

No blood, and relative calm has prevailed for the last two mornings!
Here's Friday night
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You can see the sweatjacket
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The door opened early, set that way just in case. Nobody was anxious to leave. Also no pecking or any trouble really!
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After some time Popcorn and Hazel cautiously go out to the porch and assess.
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And a Spud wants to see but hangs back
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But somebody ventured out once Popcorn jumped down, I think that's Hazel getting ready to go
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She got pushed back in however
View attachment 3660309
However, the one upset time was after their breakfast, when Popcorn went back into the coop. Sometimes they take an after-breakfast rest in there, or maybe she had noticed the sweatjacket and needed to investigate. I heard her suddenly screaming angrily, and heard knocking, scuffling sounds hitting the coop walls. I ran around and opened the back. She was attacking and fighting the poopy sweatjacket, and was really upset. It did look odd, all rumpled and twisted. I quickly grabbed it up and got it out of there. Popcorn left, but still vocalizing, and had to blow off some steam so she chased some surprised Spuds. I called her and started rustling the grass and leaves outside the run and turned over some stones for her to find worms (she got one). That helped and she calmed down.

@Ponypoor @bgmathteach

She was upset you hadn't tidied up after yourself!

 

[Ponypoor]

No blood, and relative calm has prevailed for the last two mornings!
Here's Friday night
View attachment 3660298
You can see the sweatjacket
View attachment 3660299
The door opened early, set that way just in case. Nobody was anxious to leave. Also no pecking or any trouble really!
View attachment 3660300
After some time Popcorn and Hazel cautiously go out to the porch and assess.
View attachment 3660303
View attachment 3660305
And a Spud wants to see but hangs back
View attachment 3660306
View attachment 3660304
But somebody ventured out once Popcorn jumped down, I think that's Hazel getting ready to go
View attachment 3660307
She got pushed back in however
View attachment 3660309
However, the one upset time was after their breakfast, when Popcorn went back into the coop. Sometimes they take an after-breakfast rest in there, or maybe she had noticed the sweatjacket and needed to investigate. I heard her suddenly screaming angrily, and heard knocking, scuffling sounds hitting the coop walls. I ran around and opened the back. She was attacking and fighting the poopy sweatjacket, and was really upset. It did look odd, all rumpled and twisted. I quickly grabbed it up and got it out of there. Popcorn left, but still vocalizing, and had to blow off some steam so she chased some surprised Spuds. I called her and started rustling the grass and leaves outside the run and turned over some stones for her to find worms (she got one). That helped and she calmed down.

@Ponypoor @bgmathteach

Thank you for the chuckle - I can just visualize her pulling a Marty/Ol Crazy Momma Hen and flogging the crap out of your sweater

I have had mine also go bat crap crazy over things like that, one of the horses fly masks set off a flurry of attacks by a bunch of my ladies one day, it had fallen onto the floor and was thus an extremely dangerous intruder that needed to be dispatched quickly.

A mouse sent everyone into a frenzy here today in the barn. I told buttercup go get it, but she wasn’t talking to me as I had sprayed her bottom and she didn’t like that - she gave me the evil eye and stalked off to thump one of the chicks… chickens who knew how crazy they are?!

 

[fuentemoon]

Oh my gosh!!! I love mules if I wasn’t old I would get a mule next

We were quite happy to see and visit them ☺

 

[rural mouse]

And are you brave enough to tell her that?

Yes, yes I am. Put her on Beaktime.