Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

I just did that as well, I set. 10 Jubilee eggs to do a test hatch today.

Yay!!!! I can’t wait!!

 

[featherhead007]

I’m wondering what we would get, if we crossed an elephant with a rhinoceros ? Hellifiknow!
I’ll see myself out!

 

[Ponypoor]

Petunia update

Came home to a totally different bird than yesterday, she was zipping around getting into everything seemingly back to her old self. I guess those antibiotics did the trick.

I can still feel the mass in her belly which has me really bothered but not much I can do other than keeping an eye on her for the next few years!

 

[rural mouse]

I’m wondering what we would get, if we crossed an elephant with a rhinoceros ? Hellifiknow!

Jokes not involving birds.....probably require tax payments too....

 

[Ponypoor]

I’m wondering what we would get, if we crossed an elephant with a rhinoceros ? Hellifiknow!

Rhinophant?

Poop factory???

Fluffy butt Friday

Mr Pompeii’s one long sickle feather has broke! It’s bent right over now when I got home. Darn! I plan on plucking it out so that it grows back faster than if I wait for him to moult. Yes, that’s right, I am gonna pluck that sucker out!

 

[Ponypoor]

I think it’s easier to supplement protein than calcium, but I’ve tried it both ways and currently have them on higher calcium layer as I feel the constant intake of a little calcium through the day might be better for eggshell formation, but I really have no idea. Except that the larger bits of oyster shell/ pills late in the day does allow for calcium absorption and use throughout the night, whereas eggshells eaten are ground up too fast for them to use all night.

If you need to give her pills, or tube-feed, or whatever, I wouldn’t pull their wattles down, that must hurt (and that’s why it’s effective), I would have her on my lap and in a towel under my arm like a football. I would hold the head from the back with the holding arm hand, using my thumb and three fingers, and pry open the beak with the other using my first finger, which hand is also holding the pill between my middle finger and thumb. This takes a few tries as your no,dingbhand gets used to how their going to squirm down.

After getting it open a bit, I put the first finger of my head-holding hand in their beak from the side, which holds it open, and pop the pill in with the other hand. I then keep her held but loosen the towel and take it off, let her calm down and tell her how great she’s doing, and offer a treat in front of her on my lap. She eats that, and I stop touching her, tell her she can go or have another treat, and let her jump off whenever she wants.

Sardines will be an eggcellent option for both protien and calcium!

 

[Ponypoor]

Get a half-round, or round, dowel, have it routed on one side the thickness of the cozy coop warmer about and inch or half an inch deep, depending on the dowel size, and stick it on. Or glue it on. I’d have sone concern for a regular foam noodle, but they do make a type that is made to go on hot water pipes, and it’ll be split on one side already. There’s probably a heat-resistant glue that could be used too.

Or my earlier suggestion of filling in the space behind it on that mounting board. It is right against that board, so a little length of something laid right on it would be perfect. So she stands on a wider flat surface. That would be easy. And if you’re not going to change the location you wouldn’t need the dowel / noodle idea.

If it’s a Cozy Coop panel like mine, it’s narrow not sharp. Maybe a centimeter? I’d have to measure. Heck, Queenie when she first came here and was in her quarantine quarters, roosted way, way up on the edge of a fur strip I used as a cross-piece to tape the screening to! I thought she had been taken or disappeared somehow, until I looked up and saw a dark figure overhead. Amazing because it was barely six inches from the ceiling. And those strips are barely a quarter-inch thick. She thought it was perfect. I had covered it with clear tape to avoid splinters (for me) at least. I ended up stuffing a sheet between the fur strip and the ceiling to block it!

Wow chickens ! They sure are ‘creative’ in their roosting ideas!

 

[Ponypoor]

Yes! It’s the hen who feels crappy- but will eat worms if I dig them up for her I found out haha.

Sardines?

My gang love them.

 

[BY Bob]

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Speaking of feather patterns, I want to give this a shot! Here we have, uh, blue with gold lacing and red (rust? purple?) leakage?

Just gorgeous. I love EEs!

 

[featherhead007]

Jokes not involving birds.....probably require tax payments too....

It’s a joke if it gets laughs. But my joke got no laughs.