Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[notabitail]

No camels smoking is bad for your health!
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Those are too small for riding.

This is a camel.

 

[Ponypoor]

Good morning all!

Today is day 3 of the wormer in the water, tomorrow they can have regular water again. And after Wednesday I can once again collect eggs.

Then I need to wait 2 weeks and repeat the process. 3 days treatment and with hold eggs until 3 days after last treatment day.

Buttercup’s looking spotacular

And old Penelope is lovely as ever

 

[Ponypoor]

Those are too small for riding.

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Awwwww! I want a camel!

 

[notabitail]

Awwwww! I want a camel!

Me too.

(I did get a camel plush. I should send a photo when I get a chance. )

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Well the reason I went off layer feed is that it is low ish protein 16%.
The All Flock feed I give them is 20% protein.
But, in the summer they supplement their protein with bugs and worms more easily, so that is why I was thinking to do similar.
Do you feed them back their eggshells? Mine are not that interested in oyster shell but they love crushed up eggshells.

Nutrena makes a few higher protein feeds with higher levels of calcium than their 16% layer (18% Feather Fixer with 3.25-3.75% calcium) but these others except for Feather Fixer generally aren't available locally.

I'm trying Purina Layena+ Omega 3 right now because I needed feed and this was freshest by far. Only 16% protein though, but 3.25-4.25% calcium. I was getting a few softer shells on the Nutrena Feather Fixer. Purina touts oyster shell pieces, not calcium dust, in this feed, which should last longer in the digestive tract.

Purina has a higher protein layer but it wasn't fresh at the TSC I went to
Purina Layena+ High Protein Layer Feed 19% protein, 3.25-4.25 calcium

Nutrena has these too but I never see them in the store -

Hearty Hen Soy-Free 18% protein, 3.7 -4.7% calcium https://nutrenaworld.com/products/naturewise-hearty-hen-soy-free/​

Free Range Egg Producer 21% protein, calcium 3.45-3.95 https://nutrenaworld.com/products/naturewise-egg-producer/

Nourishing Protein Bits 18% protein, 3.7-3.9% calcium https://nutrenaworld.com/products/naturewise-nourishing-layer-18-bits/

Egg Producer (Nutrena's "Country Feeds" line) 22% protein, 3.45-3.95 calcium (but they don't list ingredients for this one, only the guaranteed analysis)

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Bean baby bean boy turned 7 yesterday!
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Aweee happy birthday Bean!!!

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

My polishes should be hatching tomorrow!

 

[Ponypoor]

Bean baby bean boy turned 7 yesterday!
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Happy birthday little fella!

 

[BeastBaby]

That is my thought also. And the formed one likely helped push the soft one out…? Does that make sense ?

Are we assuming that the smaller soft shelled egg was stuck?

 

[RoyalChick]

(If you don't mind my saying, chickens' lungs don't stretch. It's really their air sacs that stretch-- so that's why they flap their wings before crowing...)

Like bagpipes?!