Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

2fer Tuesday

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Walk this way….

(Ooooo another great song!)

 

[Gigachad poultry]

Don’t the beeeding stock get to have better housing seems rather unfriendly to me.

personally i prefer to keep them in smaller chicken tractors like a quail tractor instead of layer cages but they do fine in that kind of setup as long as the males to females are sorted properly!

I know I will likely need SHRA tax - but I am too tired to catch up today.
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those hens look beautiful!!!

 

[Ponypoor]

I am getting some from Meyer and some from McMurray (McMurray is one of the few that carry Dark Cornish - and seem to have them more true to standards -though still far from SOP )

Neither had a min. per breed order - just a min for shipping. Thank goodness, as a couple - again, in early Jan - only had 1 female or 2 or 3 straight run - if any left. I had really hoped to get a couple of McMurrays true blue whiting - nope, at the time, there wasn't a single pullet available until sometime in June. They do update the numbers throughout the season (i.e. laying better than predicted...they always start conservatively), but I should have ordered late Nov. when their catalog came out - but I wasn't sure of everything yet, as I didn't know what most of the current pullets would lay. Turns out I only have 1 blue egg layer right now - a few very light green - and blue is the one I can't 'make' with crosses...and I think my EE boy has green gene's, not blue, as it seems all of his offspring - including the ones that were with him and a blue laying EE are green. A bluish green - but green and pale at that.

I wonder if you can get those Azurs down there, I am very happy with my 3, such happy friendly little ladies. And their eggs are lovely blue.

 

[Ponypoor]

Twirp is a Whiting. She's got personality the size of Hector in that tiny little body, but lays extra large eggs, so has been laying thin shell/shell less eggs at only 3. I would love more like her....laying blue eggs the size of Cheetah's daughters (small). If I can get just 3 good shell eggs from her, I'm getting a small incubator for them...unless someone is broody

That’s the one thing with those Azurs I am glad about, they don’t lay big eggs - I am wondering if Topsy is thinking of going broody, don’t know if that is unusual for them. But she sure was flattened out in her nestbox past couple mornings not happy with me checking for eggs. I must go look up if they go broody….

 

[Ponypoor]

Blue layers are very hard to come by. At least in my experience.

I wish I could bring some youngsters down there to you and BGM, sisters to petunia and Muffy they lay nice blue eggs.

I wonder what colour eggs chicks from those Azur and Mr P would lay?? I guess blue as it’s a dominant colour right? Hmmmm and wonder if they would be Splash or what do two splash throw?

 

[Ponypoor]

You need Crested Cream Legbars. Small/medium sized blue eggs.
Like Pooh!
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Oooo hey! Peavey has CCLs, maybe get those instead

https://www.chickdays.ca/product/3562609

 

[Ponypoor]

We have some names

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View attachment 3758527Miss Jane Marple

View attachment 3758525Ms Kate Warne (first female detective in the US, a Pinkerton)

Leaning toward the photography theme for the rocks, waiting on GOOD pics and some of the barring to show.

Awwwww Great names!

I'm keeping my eyes open!

Hoovers has, maybe I’ll get those rather than Marans or Brahma…..

 

[notabitail]

I prefer the Frost White variety. Like this beauty! Glowing in the sunlight.

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Get a Cream Legbar for Glynda's friend.

Lemme guess, you're going to start pushing the White Legbars on me. And everyone else here, turning you into a enabler.

 

[Grandma The Chicken]

familiar faces? You be the judge:
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Yes, I recognize those very well.

 

[BeastBaby]

Hello all! I’m back from vacation and about a hundred pages behind and won’t have time to catch up quite yet.

In the meantime, I came home to a flock of mostly happy hens- except for Albert. She’s sick, and has the “classic” sick chicken symptoms: lethargic, decreased appetite, pale comb, diarrhea. Crop was empty and abdomen soft- and poo was passing so she’s not blocked. I gave her vitamins Sunday, and yesterday started her on Corid. She eats OK when I present something extra delicious like scrambled eggs or mealworms.

I won’t be able to get a fecal run anytime the next few days… so to take a vote, would any of you start a dewormer at this point? Which one? What else do I throw at her to help?

And in the spirit of Twofer Tuesday, I give you this surprise:

It’s a grainy photo taken zoomed in from the house, but I noticed that Perry is always at Albert’s side now. Either they made amends and are buddies, or it turns out that Perry’s calling is as a nurse chicken and likes to care for the sick. My heart, what a sweetie.