Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

So, let’s do a poll, how long do you think it’ll be before the symptoms of the flu hit me ? I waited an hour for my neighbor in the office waiting room, full of sick patients.
(Yes I was wearing my mask)

Put me down for January 10th, 2025, 3:00 pm Eastern .

 

[BY Bob]

Me neither

Good news

 

[BY Bob]

Wow, I love the side by side. You should create a flip-book (I know, old school) with pictures of her in the same spot every year---to show the progression of her spots throughout her life span. Wouldn''t that be a treat to 'flip through' in years to come!!!

What a nice idea. I will try.

 

[bgmathteach]

And so are solids

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Shhhhh - don't tell Aurora, but Hattie is looking very regal/stately in this picture!

 

[BY Bob]

It’s true, lady Featherington is a very special hen. That’s for sure.

I love her little voice. Big lady little voice. The combination is perfect.

By contrast, Glynda is a little girl with a big voice.

 

[BY Bob]

Hand surgery. Not too bad!

So glad to hear that!

 

[featherhead007]

Put me down for January 10th, 2025, 3:00 pm Eastern .

2025 …..

 

[featherhead007]

That's good news.

Maybe tonight. That rain is really coming down now. Sir Jaffar is snoring away
I might need that boat.

 

[LhickenChicken]

Your update, as promised. I'll start off from November, which is when I stopped posting and ultimately "fell off the face of the earth" computer-wise.

So, in November, of course I was very busy canning and stuff, preserving food, and I also was going through some turbulent times with work. So I kind of let go of BYC for a little while. Of course, I'd come back soon, right?
I had to deal with lots of chicken related stuff, like Sir Cuckoo's frostbite (he got some in early December, with some more in January) and getting the chickens' covered run up (they HATE the snow).

On top of that, I have also had to deal with the loss of Ginger, as you know, one of my beloved first hens. If you remember from summertime, she had Salpingitis, which I temporarily cured, but it came back as a reinfection. (Presently, Lady Nacho is displaying signs similar to that of Ginger's. I'll have to do more research, though). When I did a necropsy on her, I found LOTS of lash egg (pics coming soon in another post, I have yet to upload them-- for those of you with sensitive eyes, they are pictures of her guts so I will put them in a spoiler). There was so much lash egg, it looked like it was blocking her butt, so she couldn't poop. (I was wondering why she never pooped) and her heart had atrophied. It was tiny compared to her body size, she was a full-grown hen, only a little emaciated, and her heart was the as long as the diameter of a loonie.

I had a good Christmas, though. I went to my friends' house for Christmas (which is all the way in Calgary!) and, I'm sad to say, may have bored them a bit with my chicken talk. I promise you, I did not talk about just chickens, I talked about other things too!

I spent my New Year's here at home, and then I kind of floundered in my work until now. Also, during that -40 cold spell, I had deal with frozen hot water pipes and more frostbite. I was so scared that their toes would get frostbite and fall off, and then I'd have a disabled chicken like Muffin. (Tomorrow more up-to-date pictures are coming of the chickens, including Muffin. She has grown so much! But her leg situation isn't any better, and I can't imagine her laying an egg.) Also, I had to cull my CR cockerel, Ratty, because he was so stupid. He'd just grab the hens, pull the feathers out, and throw them across the room. Like a teenage cockerel pulleting. But he was six months old! (I guess that's still teenage, though...) I gave him patience, but he started eating eggs after that. That was the last straw for me.


Other news: Aurora, Amitabha, Amoghasiddhi, Akshobya, Blaze, and Fleur have started laying. Aurora lays blue eggs. So now I have two blue egg layers and two green egg layers. (Sadly, Lightning does not lay blue-- or green-- eggs. Only brown.) I also set 26 eggs in my incubator (they are on Day 3, I think) and have two of Aurora's eggs and one of Twilight's. Little Bananas is no longer naked, she has many feathers now.

To be honest, I can't believe how everyone's chickens have grown, including mine. Chickens that were chicks when I stopped posting now have turned into laying pullets (and crowing cockerels)!

 

[LhickenChicken]

Maybe tonight. That rain is really coming down now. Sir Jaffar is snoring away
I might need that boat.

Oh no! I hope you never need a boat! (it's funny... California has been getting a lot of drought in the past few years, and now it's getting hammered with tons of rain... hmmm...)
Are your chickens going to be fine?