Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Pastel the Rooster]

My dad says just buy a coop, and I think (thanks to you) just buy a shed. My mom thinks that this shed I found was cute. My dad says that it doesn’t come with a nest box Sir, you can just slap two pieces of wood together and boom, you have a nesting box

Never mind. No shed… my dad says to get a coop with a nesting box…

 

[Marie2020]

Samara isn't pure white, she has these black freckles on both sides. She's so incredibly soft though, I hope she lets me hold her more.View attachment 3687068

She looks really lovely

 

[RoyalChick]

Oh no! She went broody? I know that I was gone for a while but I never heard about that.
Poor baby, Piglet is being a jerk?
I’m sorry. I hope that she feels better. Also, your babies started laying?

Sylvie is one of the babies and started laying a while back. Then went broody, gave up on her own, and now is not laying and looking motheaten.
Piglet started laying after Sylvie and lays a tiny blue egg most days.
Tassels just started laying and lays a small army green egg several times a week.
No eggs yet from Calypso or Pooh. Pooh has looked ready to lay for weeks but has shown no interest. Calypso has almost no comb development - I assume she will wait until spring.

My two older ladies are Babs and Bernie. Babs lays a big blue egg every day. I keep telling her to take a break. She shows no sign of molting either.
Bernie lays a lovely dark brown slightly spotted egg roughly twice a week - she stopped entirely as she molted but in the last few weeks has given me a couple of eggs. She isn't fully over her molt yet.

 

[featherhead007]

Cocorico, Cocorico bla, bla, bla! Sir Jaffar, need not answer every rooster in the neighborhood with his antisocial rhetoric!
I went out in my pjs and brought him into the house. I’m hoping that he will eat something and take a nap ! Lights are down low in here.

Update on the rooster. I took him out for a walk. The ladies all gathered around him and he started crowing. But he didn’t leave far away from me, so I picked him up and he snuggled into my lap. Ok big boy, we’re going back in the house.

 

[Marie2020]

Does anyone have any coops that they would like to recommend that fits 10 chickens with room for more? My dad might be letting my mom and I get a coop, but he said that around 400 is our money limit. I know that Omlet coops are good, but WAY to expensive, as much as I would like them.

I find Omlet really expensive. And their coops are small imo.

Could you find a local carpenter that would do the building for you? If he/she would let you provide the wood and wire it may work out cheaper.

 

[RoyalChick]

The hens will go through a mini moult after being broody, and my grey ladies who are finishing up moulting are still sleeping in their nest boxes.

Oh! I did not know that. Maybe I am blaming Piglet unfairly. Though I must say she does go out to drive Sylvie off the roost.
Mean girl!

 

[Marie2020]

Look on kijiji for a used shed you can buy.

That would be easy to make into a coop.

I really like that idea

 

[Marie2020]

My dad says just buy a coop, and I think (thanks to you) just buy a shed. My mom thinks that this shed I found was cute. My dad says that it doesn’t come with a nest box Sir, you can just slap two pieces of wood together and boom, you have a nesting box

If I started over again, I would go with the shed idea add perches and find old drawers and wooden boxes to attach to the shed for them to lay their eggs

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

If I started over again, I would go with the shed idea add perches and find old drawers and wooden boxes to attach to the shed for them to lay their eggs

That’s what I wanted to do, but nope, my parents got two small coops that will fit 12 chickens. I wish that I could get a nice, big shed, but my dad said no. I really wanted a shed.

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Ha, this is funny. Just look at the post number and the thread number. Post 172,380 and the thread number is 17238. That’s interesting.