Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RebeccaBoyd]

Yes I am also not worried about the cold weather, Henny raised chicks hatched end of Oct a couple yrs ago, and that Nov was brutally cold, one of the coldest winters in years in fact. My worry is as always getting Roos. Chicks are tougher than we give them credit.

I will think on the Marty thing. I don’t have to use curly and fluffy eggs, I can throw 3 Marty eggs under her, I could likely throw in all the four I have from Marty. My only concern is the quality of Marty’s eggs, lately they have been odd long eggs, and a funny shell, it’s strong enough but rough textured.

And a frizzle Polish cross pullet like Floyd would be real cute, so of course a Curly egg has to be used….. Curly’s a splash like P so guess it would be splash…. Oh the dilemma of it all.

Think I will just sit on my lawn chair here and mull it all over. I have a few days I don’t have to set Penelope’s egg right away…

As long as the shell is hard I would not worry about a rough texture. She is just adding a bit of extra calcium. I have set and hatched out rough eggs no problem.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I cleaned out the coop and decided I would give Poppet a treat and enrichment activity. 2 5 gallon buckets full of leaves for her to dig in spread out in the coop. She is now playing a game of the floor is lava and jumping from things to avoid stepping in the leaves. The look she gave the leaves and then me screamed of disproval. She is a princess and she clearly expects her peasant, me, to remove them from her presence at once. Nope, instead I moved her water and food dish right smack in the middle of them. You are a chicken Poppet, act like one.

 

[Lilion]

Help! I know I haven been around, things have been weird. But Eenie is really hurt! I hadn't noticed anything until today. She was a bit bedraggled but I've been so busy I've not paid them much attention.

Look at her poor neck!

It's like she's just been eaten! The pictures dont show how bad it is! I know it's likely Manny, with the other girls getting in some pecks. I don't have the new coop ready but I'd take Manny out if I did.

I do still have that little tiny coop. I could put her in it until she heals. I can put her where she can see the others, but not interact.

What do I do to treat her? It's all black and clotted. I didn't see any parasites or signs of infection.

Or should I just get rid of the rooster? This makes me ready to do it!

 

[Ponypoor]

I cleaned out the coop and decided I would give Poppet a treat and enrichment activity. 2 5 gallon buckets full of leaves for her to dig in spread out in the coop. She is now playing a game of the floor is lava and jumping from things to avoid stepping in the leaves. The look she gave the leaves and then me screamed of disproval. She is a princess and she clearly expects her peasant, me, to remove them from her presence at once. Nope, instead I moved her water and food dish right smack in the middle of them. You are a chicken Poppet, act like one.

I threw a bunch of corn/oats/barley horse feed into the leaves - it was a free for all - like piranha feeding! Might do it again just for laughs!

My silkies were like that when they were young, but when buttercup and her siblings came on the scene they quickly taught the silkies all sorts of bad habits! They learned to flap/hop up onto things, and fling themselves off into the abyss…

But Fluffy was the big surprise when she killed and ate the snake hahaha! Poppet just needs some bad influences to teach her the ropes

 

[fuentemoon]

Help! I know I haven been around, things have been weird. But Eenie is really hurt! I hadn't noticed anything until today. She was a bit bedraggled but I've been so busy I've not paid them much attention.

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It's like she's just been eaten! The pictures dont show how bad it is! I know it's likely Manny, with the other girls getting in some pecks. I don't have the new coop ready but I'd take Manny out if I did.

I do still have that little tiny coop. I could put her in it until she heals. I can put her where she can see the others, but not interact.

What do I do to treat her? It's all black and clotted. I didn't see any parasites or signs of infection.

Or should I just get rid of the rooster? This makes me ready to do it!

Do you have vetericyn? I would think cleaning it as well as you can would be step one.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I threw a bunch of corn/oats/barley horse feed into the leaves - it was a free for all - like piranha feeding! Might do it again just for laughs!

My silkies were like that when they were young, but when buttercup and her siblings came on the scene they quickly taught the silkies all sorts of bad habits! They learned to flap/hop up onto things, and fling themselves off into the abyss…

But Fluffy was the big surprise when she killed and ate the snake hahaha! Poppet just needs some bad influences to teach her the ropes

It makes no sense other then she is a spoiled princess already. The last 2 days she was given some supervised free range time. She dived head first into the leaves along the creek bank digging away. I cleaned her coop, spread a layer of leaves all over. Cleaned out her tote and gave her fresh new hay for her bed. New hay mind you, tore off the bale, not any that was scattered around and a big clump of grass and dirt for her to enjoy. None of it was up to her standards. I guess she feels all things "Dirty" belong outside the coop not inside. The rest of the flock, well they are stationed outside the coop door clearly wanting in because those leaves are special and better then what they have.

 

[Lilion]

Do you have vetericyn? I would think cleaning it as well as you can would be step one.

I'm actually going to run a couple towns over and get some now. I'll check back here to see what else you folks suggest after I get back.

 

[Sally PB]

I just gave the chickens two totes full of raked up leaves. Those are only scary when they are in the tote and momma is carrying it. "Run away! Run away! Big scary thing above our heads!" As soon as I dump them out, it's, "Come back! Come back! Leaves are here!"

 

[Marie2020]

Lovely too bad you can’t hatch them

I shone my light on them but couldn't see anything. I only had the head torch and they were too cold to be something that hatched.

I know that people have found eggs that have hatched, I met a man a long time ago that bought free range eggs and got quite a few chickens from them.

I know I shouldn't want more chickens but it's so hard to resist my urge of keeping them. Because I knew absolutely zero before coming here and I'm not for one moment thinking I am a knowledgeable chickens keeper. But thanks too my losses and the guidance I have obtained from people here combined, I know in an abundance a lot more today than even last year, let alone when I first got Amber flexi and my princess.

I'm still so very sad how I failed my beautiful girls.

 

[Marie2020]

Tell her that Kelly has some nachos for her

Naughty Kelly