Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[PTR]

Here’s Midnight, the AC chick. She was fine yesterday. The one that died last Thursday was fine on Wednesday.

Spoiler: Dead AC Chick. Viewer Discretion Advised.

 

[CCsGarden]

Here’s Midnight, the AC chick. She was fine yesterday. The one that died last Thursday was fine on Wednesday.

Spoiler: Dead AC Chick. Viewer Discretion Advised.

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Poor girl!!!

 

[CCsGarden]

So you're still going to open her?

 

[PTR]

You lost your two beautiful blacks. Sad yes but I understand your pain and sadness. I would be looking around for any possible contamination around your coop, run, feed, water and pest management issues.

I’ve looked. Everyone’s poop looks fine, food and water is clean and they are given fresh food and water daily. Rooster booster (vitamins, probiotics, and electrolytes) are put into the water every other day.

Both chicks had no injuries.

 

[PTR]

So you're still going to open her?

I think so. If I can’t find anything, at least I’ll find out if she is a true Ayam Cemani. Her organs, bones, and everything else internally and externally should be pitch black.

 

[PTR]

I’ve looked. Everyone’s poop looks fine, food and water is clean and they are given fresh food and water daily. Rooster booster (vitamins, probiotics, and electrolytes) are put into the water every other day.

Both chicks had no injuries.

I’ll look for mites and lice today and if I find any I’ll treat them for it.

 

[notabitail]

Aphrodite isn’t very friendly either. If I can catch her she is sweet. Hard to catch though.

She let me pet her today though. And she ate food out of my hand, which she never does.


And my standoffish Polish cockerel, Athens, realized today that pets are amazing. He was rubbing up against my leg the way a cat would he fell asleep when I was petting his wattles and crop. I didn’t think he would ever be sweet. Just yesterday he attacked my hand.

Mine will eat from my hand, sometimes she will puff her hackles slightly, grab the food, and run. Dominica has been bullying the Empress lately.

 

[PTR]

Mine will eat from my hand, sometimes she will puff her hackles slightly, grab the food, and run. Dominica has been bullying the Empress lately.

Aphrodite is still young, so I eggs left her to warm up to me more. She is very skittish and shy right now, but I hope with meally worms and cuddles, she will be very sweet.

 

[CCsGarden]

I think so. If I can’t find anything, at least I’ll find out if she is a true Ayam Cemani. Her organs, bones, and everything else internally and externally should be pitch black.

Sound good! Let me know how it goes if you do it!

 

[Sylvester017]

I think my In Albis has her natural tendencies in her. She went broody this year. Agathae convinced her.

My Dominiques are food monsters. They know the sounds of the fridge in the back room opening, the scraping of a spoon on a bowl of yogurt, the sound of a plate being set down, and the look of the turkey sandwiches I eat. They're not shy when it comes to destroying food and anything in the way of said food. I've also gotten In Albis to sit quietly on my lap for periods of time, but Dominica does not like people unless they have food.

I do have a Exchequer Leghorn. She is not the most friendly, but she is very intelligent. She tolerates being picked up, and she knows how to get her way.

Yep, Doms are usually not shy about anything. The chicks were about 3 or 4 days old when we brought them home and as teenagers were respectful to our 9-yr-old alpha Silkie. We were afraid of putting bigger Doms w/ the old Silkie but they turned out to be her protectors till she passed at 11 yrs.

OLD SILKIE W/ TEENAGE DOMS

The Doms would let the Silkie eat food first, staunchly defended her from an obnoxious Breda hen which we sadly had to re-home, and the Doms always screamed at and chased off the feral cats that dared to enter their yard! I miss those Dom girls!

This is the obnoxious Cuckoo Breda we gave to our friend & she seems content snoozing w/a new pal & we get pics from her new owner.

We have only one Dom left almost 7 yrs old now.

As for Leghorns -- we've only had White Leghorn and Buff Leghorn. Both were handled as chicks but were not as friendly as our Doms. I coveted a Brown or Exchequer Leghorn but after having a White & a Buff didn't try any more Legs

Our Marans was mean to the Silkie and was fighting w/ the White Leghorn so the Marans was sent to a neighbor who wanted dark brown eggs. It was at that point we decided to cease adding prolific egg-layers to our flock & settled for gentler known breeds like smaller Blue Bredas, Silkies, Blue Wheaten Ameraucana, and Dominiques.