Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[CCsGarden]

Oh no! I am so sorry to hear she has passed away. Do you know what happened?

We think she ate something.
I'm not sure

 

[featherhead007]

She has the 4th and 5th toes on each foot that curl around each other - they formed incorrectly. So they need to be trimmed to prevent them growing into her foot.

Mr P has bent toes on his feet that don’t wear off so he also gets a trim. The Silkies 5th toes never touch the ground so they get trimmed.

These mutant chooks all require extra care! I’m the wild they sure wouldn’t do well for very long.

Where did you find a salon that cuts and trims chooks nails?

 

[Debbie292d]

That's interesting. I'm guessing mail is done differently in different places.

For example, in CA Amazon would deliver their own packages. Here the post office delivers them. I think it depends on the size of the city and if there's a Amazon warehouse anywhere.

We get it both ways. There's a smaller Amazon warehouse an hour away. On a rare occasion, we get an Amazon van in our driveway, but most often it's the USPS delivering their stuff. I suppose because we're out in the boonies has something to do with it.

 

[Debbie292d]

She has the 4th and 5th toes on each foot that curl around each other - they formed incorrectly. So they need to be trimmed to prevent them growing into her foot.

Mr P has bent toes on his feet that don’t wear off so he also gets a trim. The Silkies 5th toes never touch the ground so they get trimmed.

These mutant chooks all require extra care! I’m the wild they sure wouldn’t do well for very long.

We have an old white silkie rooster whose spurs grow inward, so when they grow out, they'll start hitting the inside of his legs. When he starts running bull-legged, we know it's time.

We get him at night in the coop, bring him in, and hubby trims first with the dykes or side cutters, then uses a metal file to get off the rough edges. It's only about every six months or so. He has a dremel he's thinking of trying next time.

 

[featherhead007]

I just released the kraken! The birds are now roaming the yard.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

She has the 4th and 5th toes on each foot that curl around each other - they formed incorrectly. So they need to be trimmed to prevent them growing into her foot.

Mr P has bent toes on his feet that don’t wear off so he also gets a trim. The Silkies 5th toes never touch the ground so they get trimmed.

These mutant chooks all require extra care! I’m the wild they sure wouldn’t do well for very long.

I monitor my silkie's extra toes as well. I have had to trim branches once when I was filing down his wonky spur. I have noticed even though they never touch the ground to be worn down, the nails grow slowly.

 

[RoyalChick]

We get it both ways. There's a smaller Amazon warehouse an hour away. On a rare occasion, we get an Amazon van in our driveway, but most often it's the USPS delivering their stuff. I suppose because we're out in the boonies has something to do with it.

Yes I have similar - but it causes chaos for me. USPS doesn't deliver to my street address (I have a PO Box). But Amazon and UPS do. Except when they are delivering for USPS when they don't. Except when they do.
To make it worse my street address and my PO Box are in different ZIP codes. So when USPS does the last mile and realize they cannot deliver to the street address they leave it at the wrong Post Office. Sometimes I have to race between the two Post Offices to intercept the parcel before it gets totally lost.

Deliver chaos tax. It was cold but sunny yesterday and the Princesses enjoyed being out and about.

 

[featherhead007]

P.O. Box and my home address are also two different zip codes. I can’t get any packages delivered to my POBOX. That is strange. I’m not sure how many parcels I have lost over the years.
No way would I order chicks in the mail.

 

[bgmathteach]

Phew! I was worried I had overlooked something. I mean my guys have long nails, but I figured they needed them to dig the soil.

I do trim some of my kiddo's nails. Especially this time of year - there is a lot of soft bedding for them to dig through -which doesn't wear them down much, and very little 'free range' time until the past few weeks, as it is dark before I get home - so some of the older gals need a small trim. Depending, I either snip a little off with nail clippers, or use nail files to wear them down a little.

no worries - they are NOTHING like what @Grandma The Chicken posted of those factory farmed hens with nails over an inch long, though! Trust me, you are observant enough, I know you would see if the nails were too long and needed a trim!

 

[SimpleJenn]

Liara laid her first egg and it is...BLUE! She's a prarie bluebell egger! I got my easter eggs after all haha, olive, mint, and blue.



Shep was the only properly labeled girl at the feed store...although her tag was labeled "majestic mystic marans" instead of midnight majesty or mystic onyx, she's definitely a midnight majesty marans though.