Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

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Oh no! Not another one passing - there is so much of this happening with our beloved feathered friends

I guess it’s to be expected when they get old, it’s just never easy. I hope she is joined by Larry, Jaffar and wee little Chickie whom I had to euthanize today. I hope all our passed feathered and fur friends are roaming a huge lovely meadow.

 

[fuentemoon]

Big hugs to those with recent losses.

In other news...

Looks like i have a hanging head sleeper

temp home, going to see if Rosie an Alinta really want to be moms tonight.

 

[ManueB]

Sad day.
Dead hen.
It wasn't all because of the heat.


For the past few weeks, I've been not been seeing lots of eggs in the nest like normal. I thought it was just the summertime heat, but it was happening for weeks on end. Then Breezefeather got lodged in between two fence wires. I had never seen that before. Something had to have scared her. I watched the chook yard for a couple days at noon, and yesterday I caught a crow swooping into the yard! I ran out of my house screeching and having my hands at it, and when I got to the coop, I saw Cluckie laying on her back, breathing heavily. I brought her to her feet but she just stumbled onto the ground. Her feet didn't look injured, but I suspected the crow did something to her. I tried bringing her inside into the cool and putting water into her mouth. After a while her breathing went shallower. Then it just stopped. She had passed. I was sobbing so much. She had lived for 7 and a half years, just to die like this.
I really don't know how this death happened.... heatstroke or crow attack.
Rest in peace and fly high, Cluckie.
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Oh no! Not another one passing - there is so much of this happening with our beloved feathered friends

I guess it’s to be expected when they get old, it’s just never easy. I hope she is joined by Larry, Jaffar and wee little Chickie whom I had to euthanize today. I hope all our passed feathered and fur friends are roaming a huge lovely meadow.

@Desertvalleychickens and @Ponypoor I am sorry for your loss.
It sounds like Cluckie had a long and full chicken life.
Kelly, I hope you feel like you did everything you could for that wee one.
Keeping chickens we somehow have to make peace with them dying. It's harder when their end is not the peaceful one we hoped for.


@RebeccaBoyd to honour a chicken who passed recently...I'm really hoping to read the next part of Momma hen's story .

 

[Marie2020]

Sad day.
Dead hen.
It wasn't all because of the heat.


For the past few weeks, I've been not been seeing lots of eggs in the nest like normal. I thought it was just the summertime heat, but it was happening for weeks on end. Then Breezefeather got lodged in between two fence wires. I had never seen that before. Something had to have scared her. I watched the chook yard for a couple days at noon, and yesterday I caught a crow swooping into the yard! I ran out of my house screeching and having my hands at it, and when I got to the coop, I saw Cluckie laying on her back, breathing heavily. I brought her to her feet but she just stumbled onto the ground. Her feet didn't look injured, but I suspected the crow did something to her. I tried bringing her inside into the cool and putting water into her mouth. After a while her breathing went shallower. Then it just stopped. She had passed. I was sobbing so much. She had lived for 7 and a half years, just to die like this.
I really don't know how this death happened.... heatstroke or crow attack.
Rest in peace and fly high, Cluckie.
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I'm so sorry you lost Clukie.

I've not heard of crows attacking chickens before. But princess doesn't like them . I wonder if the heat got too her

She lived until a really good age . You must be an incredible chicken keeper, but we see this from your videos

 

[maryfrancis3]

Thank you. It was inspired by an old thread on here called Fluffy Butt Friday, where every Friday people would post pictures of fluffy butts. I was addicted to it for over a year until it died out.

Oh yes! I remember fluffy butt friday. Love reading your posts.

 

[Marie2020]

Have a good Caturday

 

[Marie2020]

Little miss Princess says good morning

 

[beautifulchick]

This person has received lots of advice from us all - sure hope their wee chooks are ok.

I worm my chooks a couple times a year. I do not want to ever find round worms in my eggs!

thank you all! they are alive eating, drinking and growing beautifully!

 

[Marie2020]

thank you all! they are alive eating, drinking and growing beautifully!
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It's good to see you are still coming in too see us

As you can see we are a friendly bunch and no one will judge you for your writing, which is really good in my opinion.

 

[bgmathteach]

I don't think I could ever have bantams - I would be too afraid of harming something so tiny. When the baby Carolina Wren that hatched in my garage was learning to fly, he was on a mission to self destruct. I was always terrified I would crush him as I hauled him out of buckets and paint cans etc. Honestly, you would think they would have more basic flight skills, but this little guy was always face-planting on the walls and dropping down into buckets of water. I had to make the garage baby-bird proof and even then he managed to find ways to get into trouble.
Here he is - so cute! Eventually he learned to fly, grew up, and sang to me from the peach tree outside the garage.
He gave me as much anxiety as the chickens!
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I just love that last picture with bits of baby fluff sticking up! So darn cute!