Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BeastBaby]

Oh, okay.
So if I mixed my EE with the more mild colored laying one, what would I get?

I’m not good at thinking about egg colors.

Probably most would lay light brown, and some would have a tinge of color.

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Probably most would lay light brown, and some would have a tinge of color.

Thank you!

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Getting ready to board my next plane to go home

 

[BeastBaby]

It can be nerve wrecking, but remember it will likely extend her life by giving her laying breaks.
And maybe it's a black chicken thing ?
Since I have began using an excel file sheet to track eggs in January, I can also actually track how many days the hens have been broody. I knew Merle is often broody... but now I know just how often.
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Broody all January, 11 days in February, 7 in March, 19 in April and 15 in May !
(I do a gentle break everytime - lock up the coop in the afternoon so she can't access the nest, and put her on a roost a night.)
She is so fun when she is not broody though that I will gladly put up with it. If we decide to hatch more chicks next year or the year after, she will definitely be our broody.

This was the first time she went broody, two weeks after beginning to lay, and when she was six months old. I posted it at the time not sure what was going on .

Wow that’s a lot of broody time!

It extends their life in theory- assuming that laying lots of eggs is what will kill them. If, like my Veruca, being broody meant skipping on self care (anorexia, no grooming), then I’ll bet it’s to the hen’s detriment to be broody for long/repeatedly.

 

[Ponypoor]

Are these called Satins (smooth-feathered Silkies) ? Buckaboo Farm in Santa Ana, Calif, sells Satins, Laced Satins, Showgirls, & Frizzled Silkies.
https://buckaboofarm.com/farm-blog/buckaboo-breeding-pens/

Yes my Henny Penny is a satin silkie. I love her feathered legs and feet

 

[Marie2020]

That poo looks normal, but I’m concerned that if you pump her full of new foods (like coconut oil) it will end up making her poo look unusual.

Where did she have egg gunk on her? On her bum, or chest? It kind of looked like she laid a soft shelled egg (normal for an old gal!) and then both laid in it and ate some. This will probably happen again with her next soft egg.

Her head beak nostrils and under body was glued with egg and straw. That why I had to wash her. She couldn't have breathed like she was

 

[Marie2020]

@Marie2020

Thank you for the update.
Have a good vacation and make sure you keep that eye bathed

 

[featherhead007]

Ouch. Who pecked your eye?

I hesitate to answer your question.
She was just being curious. But she is one of the new EE’s

 

[featherhead007]

I’m wasting so much time today. Just here playing with the kids.
Xzit is super broody, high hackles and biting kind of broody.

 

[featherhead007]

Dakota was being naughty. She’d jump up on the truck, over my fence and over to the yard where I don’t want them to be. I cannot protect them from that area.
And she would wait at the gate for me to let her back in the safe zone.