Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

I was thinking Frick and Frack for the Lav Orp and Marans

Midnight and Noon

 

[rural mouse]

Midnight and Noon

@Ponypoor George (Georgie) and Gracie, Abbott and Costello, Laverne and Shirley, Tap and Dance....

 

[PTR]

Updates:
I have not been on for a while. Hello everyone and here is some Tax:
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Videos:

I've been having some very busy days finishing up school, tending to hot days in the Chicken yard and garden, so there wasn't lots of time. Just take a look at these heat extremes!
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Well, now that school is over, I should have more time to be on here.

Hi DVC!
And hello pretty chickies!

I’m glad school is over! It’s exhausting trying to do schoolwork and get on BYC.
Back when I was in school, I was on here for a few days at a time and then I’d disappear for a few weeks.
Since school ended for me though, I don’t think I’ve missed a day.

Hopefully you are able to get on here a ton more!

 

[PTR]

Thanks. I'll make sure to keep my chooks cool also. Don't want any more chooks dying.

I need to buy my chooks some solar powered fans. No one has died from heat yet, but I don’t want it to happen.

I wonder if my Ayam Cemani could have? But they do better in warm climates, so probably not.

 

[PTR]

Midnight and Noon

Wait, those are amazing! @Ponypoor

 

[featherhead007]

@Ponypoor what has worked for me in the past when I had a splayed leg chick was this:

Get a short tumbler/glass that is a bit narrower on the bottom/base than the chick....think maybe a whiskey glass or short water glass. Put the chick in it for 10-15 minute intervals (as it gets stronger, up to 30 min.) a couple times a day. Within a few days (or up to a week if it has it really bad) it should then be okay. The 'tight bottom' of the glass 'holds' the feet in proper position and the slightly sloped sides that are slippery will give the leg a workout (PT) as it tries to hop/climb it's way out of the glass.

I have had to do this with 3 chicks (2 mine, one was a friends - all at different times). 2 of the 3, within 2 days (did do it a 3rd for good measure, though, and 3X a day) the two were running around normal - you would never know!
the third was older when the friend asked for help - and the splayed leg was quite bad - couldn't stand up even if you manually set the feet correctly on a paper towel. That one it took the full week. I wasn't sure it would work on her, as I didn't see any improvement at all the first 3 days, but at the end of the 4th, she could stand (still splayed - but had the strength to actually hold herself up. Walking still not so good at that point...but by the end of the week, she could walk on her own - and a few more days of PT in the glass did the trick!

I wish I had known this sooner, as the 'bandaid strapped to the two legs' really doesn't work great - they are always pecking it off themselves - or 'with help from a friend'!

Neither of these were the actual video I watched - but you get the idea.

Just do not drink the contents of the shot glass!

 

[Sylvester017]

Mugshot Monday:
Ya know, for being a Rock, Shenandoah is very soft!View attachment 3830548

BRs and Dominiques have the same ancestry ("The American Dominique -- a Treatise for the Fancier" by Mark Fields). Turn of the last century straight comb Doms branched off as BRs while the rose combs remained Doms. New England Pilgrims used Dom plumage for their incredible softness for bedding plus less odor from the plumage. The only other breed with softer plumage and little to no odor are Silkie feathers. Our white Leghorn never had odorless or soft feathers, rather stiff, while all our Doms we could sniff/snuggle into their feathers and not be offended. I assume BRs acquired that trait from the same Dom ancestry.
"Dana" our Dom

 

[notabitail]

BRs and Dominiques have the same ancestry ("The American Dominique -- a Treatise for the Fancier" by Mark Fields). Turn of the last century straight comb Doms branched off as BRs while the rose combs remained Doms. New England Pilgrims used Dom plumage for their incredible softness for bedding plus less odor from the plumage. The only other breed with softer plumage and little to no odor are Silkie feathers. Our white Leghorn never had odorless or soft feathers, rather stiff, while all our Doms we could sniff/snuggle into their feathers and not be offended. I assume BRs acquired that trait from the same Dom ancestry.
"Dana" our Dom
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My Dominiques are quite soft. Especially when it comes to food. They have a soft spot for food.

 

[featherhead007]

The softest bird of all, was my beautiful Hen-Rietta. She was so soft, she’d make silk feel like sand paper! I miss that too!

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

BRs and Dominiques have the same ancestry ("The American Dominique -- a Treatise for the Fancier" by Mark Fields). Turn of the last century straight comb Doms branched off as BRs while the rose combs remained Doms. New England Pilgrims used Dom plumage for their incredible softness for bedding plus less odor from the plumage. The only other breed with softer plumage and little to no odor are Silkie feathers. Our white Leghorn never had odorless or soft feathers, rather stiff, while all our Doms we could sniff/snuggle into their feathers and not be offended. I assume BRs acquired that trait from the same Dom ancestry.
"Dana" our Dom
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"You are not using my feathers as your bedding!"