Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Our Mourning Doves have the salmon-colored feet -- such gentle birds.

When playing our Wingspan board game we discovered there are many different Dove varieties around the world!

Our Silkie "SUZU" watching us play "Wingspan" -- one bird card is a "Prairie Chicken" and another one is a "Red Jungle Fowl" and 100's of more birds -- we play this board game every day and DH plays the online version w/ some of his online bird-loving friends.
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That is so cute What cutie pie!

 

[Ponypoor]

I pray your lady is ok too!

In our Silkie's case from the time she layed her 1st egg as a pullet she was always abnormally fidgety and agitated when she needed to lay. Then once she layed the egg she was fine and happy until the next egg needed laying. This went on for years every egg she layed. She got so agitated that she scratched so hard in the nestboxes that she tore off a few toenails and lost a couple toes. Blood everywhere. I rushed this girl to the vet more times than I took my own children to the pediatrician!
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Many times we brought her into the house to observe her cuz sometimes she seemed so ill. When she was not laying or going hormone broody she was the sweetest, smartest, friendliest little tot in the flock. Kids were not afraid to hold her she was so tame.
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It killed us to put her down but her last rubbery egg was stuck outside her vent and still attached to the bleeding ovary. She would have painfully bled to death so my vet put her down.

"MINI" -- magnify the pic to see missing toes/toenails
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Gosh she is so adorable I am sorry she had such troubles. She sure reminds me of Marty.

Curly my frizzle and Marty - she is quite black

 

[Ponypoor]

Well better head to the barn and sort out those older chicks - such brats! They have taken to terrorizing the school chicks and of course the newest lot - they are smart they hide under the brooder.

Tomorrow I will fix that pen they are in so that those older ones can’t get in there.

Meanwhile the silkie chickies have taken to them well, all snuggled together.

It’s like an older child jealous because of the new baby and wanting their things.

 

[Cynthia12]

Pain is a hard and tiring battle

I would say..you know it!--but hoping you don't.

 

[Cynthia12]

I pray your lady is ok too!

In our Silkie's case from the time she layed her 1st egg as a pullet she was always abnormally fidgety and agitated when she needed to lay. Then once she layed the egg she was fine and happy until the next egg needed laying. This went on for years every egg she layed. She got so agitated that she scratched so hard in the nestboxes that she tore off a few toenails and lost a couple toes. Blood everywhere. I rushed this girl to the vet more times than I took my own children to the pediatrician!
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Many times we brought her into the house to observe her cuz sometimes she seemed so ill. When she was not laying or going hormone broody she was the sweetest, smartest, friendliest little tot in the flock. Kids were not afraid to hold her she was so tame.
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It killed us to put her down but her last rubbery egg was stuck outside her vent and still attached to the bleeding ovary. She would have painfully bled to death so my vet put her down.

"MINI" -- magnify the pic to see missing toes/toenails
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Oh my goodness. I've never heard of a chicken being like this for laying. That's sureal. She was a cutie.

 

[Cynthia12]

Our Mourning Doves have the salmon-colored feet -- such gentle birds.

When playing our Wingspan board game we discovered there are many different Dove varieties around the world!

Our Silkie "SUZU" watching us play "Wingspan" -- one bird card is a "Prairie Chicken" and another one is a "Red Jungle Fowl" and 100's of more birds -- we play this board game every day and DH plays the online version w/ some of his online bird-loving friends.
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My kids..older kids..love big board games.

 

[Cynthia12]

Yup! There are many types of doves!

We have morning doves, white winged doves, Inca doves, Eurasian collared doves and some others!
Here's a picture of my pet dove!
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We have two different types of doves here in Utah..the Mourning Dove being the mist common.
https://www.alpinenaturecenter.org/...t Doves coexist,common as it's native brother!

 

[rural mouse]

Hmm, I only need another thousand or so posts to edge my way into top ten posters on this thread. Hmm, maybe I should talk more.

Make sure you post tax pics with it. We've had a crop of meds talk today that isn't about chicken meds. (Not you this time! Good job there!)

 

[rural mouse]

Wow. I hope that isn’t the case with Tassels. She is only just over a year old.
The strange egg was her first back to laying after being broody for 23 days and then no laying for about a week after I got her to snap out of broodiness.
Honestly it didn’t occur to me something might be wrong, I assumed she was just getting the production line back up and running.
Oh I do hope she is OK.

Your assumption is likely correct in this case. (I say likely as with chickens, they tend to make monkeys out of you when you make definitive statements (they do me.))

 

[rural mouse]

You're in fifth place. Wanna have a posting battle?

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