Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Well, I can say with certainty that my Rose is HEALTHY. Doing the nightly handling/working with Sherlock. Pulled each one (at a time) out for some cuddles/standing on the lid (have to keep it on or they start getting out, moving to the coop as soon as I can get a 2nd heating pad set up for outside the tote) for wing flapping, etc (while keeping Sherlock from getting wound up). Rose annointed my hand...with one of those thickish paste poops. Managed to tuck her back in without dropping her. She was last on the handle list, so went to wash hands (before Sherlock could volunteer to "help").

Eewwwwwe’ hahaha. Isn’t it good luck for a bird to poop on you??

 

[Ponypoor]

@featherhead007 @Desertvalleychickens
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Take a guess as to where I am.

(I can give more hints as needed. Others are welcome to participate).

Some place where off topic tax is easy to get (AZ).

Dorothy says she would like to see a handsome hot young Roo (what’s your young Roo called again?)….

 

[notabitail]

Outskirts of Palm Springs California

Yep! I'm in CA now.

 

[notabitail]

Some place where off topic tax is easy to get (AZ).

Dorothy says she would like to see a handsome hot young Roo (what’s your young Roo called again?)….
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I need to dig up a photo. I'm not home.

 

[BeastBaby]

Sardines?

My gang love them.

Yesss, my chooks love them! Good idea!

But, for marital harmony, any buying of sardines *for the chickens* needs to be done on the sly. I AM due for a Costco run, and they have big ole multi packs of sardines

 

[Gigachad poultry]

He’s a beauty and looks like some lovely vistas in the background You still overseas?

Yup! The Italian countryside is coming back to life and everything is getting green again!!!

 

[RoyalChick]

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!

I like the dowel idea. My thought on the pool noodle was the same - just split it half way.
I am not sure about glue though because of fumes when it heats up.
And I still haven’t decided if my stance is to enable or discourage!

 

[Gigachad poultry]

I gently squeezed Kasumis cheeks and she opened her beak for the calcium today. I tried putting it in bits of sausage from the pizza we had for dinner, but she tore them apart haha. No fight or struggle from her though! Tomorrow's dose will be wrapped in cheese again though!
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Those chickens were all lined up nicely, then the toddler got to them.
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And my mother in law requested a keychain of Shep.

Oh my goodness those are so adorable!!!!!

 

[Gigachad poultry]

What a gorgeous Rooter!

Thanks! I'm trying to develop my own unique line if birds that look like him!!! I just hatched out generation two a couple of weeks ago!

 

[BeastBaby]

FBF:

The two fluffiest derrieres in my flock! Dottie and Fez.

Perry’s little bum! It doesn’t look so small in this photo from the other day, but she was foraging right up close to me so the camera angle was optimal. Despite the occasional friendship (the one with Albert seems to have dissolved once Albert started acting less sick and in need of a nurse chicken), Perry still seeks me out for company which I love. What a little sweetheart
And still no real egg from her. Lots of time spent checking out the nests and digging holes in the coop’s shavings though.